I started out doing the arnold workout from his encyclopedia of bodybuilding. Pyramid sets and thing like clesn amd press snd push press stuff. I liked it. Then did 5x5 for a while liked it too and now the last few years I bounce back and forth between strength and functional workouts and bodybuilding with 3 sets of 8 to 12. Im into martial arts as well boxing jujitsue etc so I love tbe idea of just strength power and explosiveness but my pride and ego always makes me want to keep bodybuilding just for the look that you achieve. I do phases like 6 months at a time sometimes 3 to 4 months depends on how much free tine I have, my work schedule etc. Im thinking this time though I may just stick with the functional stuff. For strength snd explosivness I usually lean out and do lots of zone 2 cardio like 20 minute jogs esch day. Right now im only boxing so thats 4 to 6 hours a week. My hiit is only boxing days, zone 2 is only days not boxing and the workouts during boxing is just long muscular endurence stuff like 8 minutes straight of abs with no rest and the same for pushups and a few other bodyweight exercises. My workouts on days off are plyometrics, balistic exercises, rotational etc 4 sets of 4, Followed by strength stuff mostly bigger compound things like bench press, over head press, squat and dead lift for 3 to 5 sets of 3 to 5, and finishing off with hypertrophy stuff 3 sets 8 to 12 of most isolation exercises. When ever I cycle I usualy just do bodybuilding then when im off I switch to strength lol. Gotta have that beach body for the wife. Oh yea also when off cycle my split is usually push pull legs once a week, ive done bro split and push/pull/legs twice a week but that was too much. When on cycle I add extra days depending what im prioritizing so currently im doing legs/push/pull/arms. Sometimes ive done push/pull/legs/fullbody
