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    Weds., Sat. & Sun. Bulking Program?

    To make a long story short, I can only lift reliably on Weds., Sat. and Sun. I've been cutting since early May and have done more or less full body on Weds, and then lower/upper on Sat/Sun. I can keep doing this on the bulk, but wondered if it might be more effective to do something else. At this point, I'm an "intermediate" to "advanced" lifter, so I find it hard to reliably max out on all lifts on full body days. Would PPL on a bulk work if I only did each workout once a week?

    Sample workouts (I got lazy as I wrote this)

    Weds: Leg press 4x8-12; DB shoulder press 3x8-12, One-arm DB Rows 3x8-12, dragon flags, hypers
    Sat: Squat OR Deadlift (4-6 rep range), leg-press OR hack sqaut (8-12), extensions/curls (10-15 rep range), cable crunches
    Sun: Bench, pullups, OHP, seated rows, bis/tris, shrugs

    Would the above work on a bulk? Or more accurately, would something else work better? I could probably lift twice during the week if the workouts could be confined to 45 min or less--anything more would require waking up at like 4AM, whcih I can't do since I often get home super late (work 60+ hrs, sometimes significantly more)
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    Ya if it was me I would do a push/pull/leg workout and only do it once a week, that still will get you very very good gains. Your program isn't bad either, I would add in some lateral raises though, that's just me though, either way whatever you decide is good, good luck man
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    Bumping--I'm considering PPL, and also upper/lower (adding an extra day). I'm at the point where I need a double progression, hence the rep ranges rather than rep counts. I also need to be able to finish the weekday workouts in like 45-60 minutes tops.

    What do you think of the below split, and would it be that much better than what I'm doing now or PPL once a week?

    Tues (all 8-12 rep range): Leg press x4, SLDL x4, Leg Extensions, Reverse crunches/captains chair

    Weds: Seated DB OHP 4x8-12, Weighted Pullups 4x6-10, Pushups 3 sets to failure supersetted with DB curl variants

    Sat: Squats 4x6-9 OR Deadlift work to 1 max set of 4-6;
    If squatting: Hypers 3x10-15, leg extension 3x10-15, Cable crunches
    If deadlifting: Leg press 3x12-15, Leg curl 3x10-15, Cable crunches

    Sun: Bench 4x6-9, DB Rows 4x6-9, pulldowns 3x10-15, upright rows 3x10-15, narrow bar dips/curls supersetted to failure
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    I would go with what you just posted, or if lifting on Tuesday becomes too troublesome. do like a:

    Week 1:

    Wednesday: Upper
    Saturday: Lower
    Sunday: Upper

    Week 2:

    Wednesday: Lower
    Saturday: Upper
    Sunday: Lower

    Repeat. This kind of scheduling, that way you keep frequency, where with a PPL for you, each muscle would only get hit once per week.
    http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=172590831 <<< New training log as of 10/7/16

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    I would do PPL like others have mentioned. I like the looks of this one...

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