The best way for beginning lifters to gain more strength and muscle mass is to follow a full-body workout routine. I recommend to all gym starters not to follow workout programs of popular bodybuilders. The reason for that is that most of them are using anabolic steroids. Many bodybuilding legends including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Zane, and Reg Park used Full-Body Workouts to build their big muscular bodies and they were forgotten soon as new generations of bodybuilders came on the scene and steroids became popular. That caused such popularity of training splits because modern bodybuilders saw that with training splits they could train longer and recover quickly. It is true that training splits are easier workouts and muscles recover faster than with full-body workouts. But for natural lifters, especially beginners, the best way to build muscle mass fast is with full-body workout routines.  The benefit of full-body workouts is activation of more ...