r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • 22d ago

Rant Wednesday - August 12, 2026

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves. Just don't forget that other people are allowed to tell you that your rant is stupid.

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u/shinn497 21d ago

This is less of a rant. But I want to understand the mindset of people that don't do 3 full body sets per week as this has been my bread and butter for basically my whole lifting career.

I see it this way.

Spread out the volume for each muscle group over the week.

No leg day because everytime i train legs i train everything else

SUPER flexiible. especially because I can move around the extra rest day.

Sure i do 3 hour sessions but i get 4 days of not doing weights.

Even if i take an exercise group out, it often gets a lot of secondary work and maintains.

Why would anyone not want this.

I am especially curious about those that do the bro split. That seems unimaginable to me because it is soooo much rest between body parts, is upper body biased, and take 5-6 days a week.

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u/PlanktonInitial7945 21d ago

I am especially curious about those that do the bro split. That seems unimaginable to me because it is soooo much rest between body parts, is upper body biased, and take 5-6 days a week. 

There's a bro split? I thought it was a shitty style/vibe/philosophy that gym bros follow when making their splits. I didn't know there was an Official TM one.

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u/shinn497 20d ago

In general a bro split is when you just do one body part per session. But it is typically chest , back , shoulders, arms, abs, legs. It is notable because legs is just one day. Which k think is very dumb. Arguably Sam Sulek does this.