[quote author="star61" date="1263952598"][quote author="Denis Eradiri (sizerp)" date="1263949556"]Why would athletes do bodyparts?
By bodyparts, I mean splitting upper body from lower body. I’ve never been a fan of training the entire body in one session. I understand that in season or during maintainance phases it might be best, but if you’re trully trying to build strength and/or power at any level of intensity its not the best way to do it, IMHO.
And while I realize many track and field athletes do train the whole body each session, there cam still be a split along intensity lines (high force-explosive power or heavy day-light day).[/quote]
I’ve actually thought (for a while) that track athletes could learn from split session workouts used by Bodybuilders, Powerlifters, and others. Especially in GPP and (if needed) Hypertrophy periods of training.Personally, I do full body 3x per week, with High, Low, and then moderate intensity – and this seems sufficient for slow(ish) strength gains. I suspect doing more intelligent splits would actually yield bigger strength gains – but I would gain weight like crazy.[/quote]In off season or early GPP, if strength or hypertrophy were important short term goals, I agree that split sessions would allow greater progress. SPP and Comp periods lifting for sprinters seems to be limited to a few exercises, so splitting along intensity lines, as you’re doing, probably works best.