Due to school/work commitments I'm only able to work out 5 days a week. I'm just starting out the 12 week push pull legs program and was wondering what would be the best way to modify the program.

I've initially planned to just do the workouts in the order push,pull, legs across the month which = 7x push, 7x pull, and 6x leg in a space of 4 weeks.

However, I also was thinking it might be better - seeing as I'm happier with where my legs are right now than my upper body - to do push/pull twice a week and legs once a week - so my monthly totals would be : 8x push, 8x pull and 4x leg. 

What would be the best option? Would doing 2x the number of push/pull workouts compared to legs ruin the balance of the program?

Hey @OCollins.

I'm a bit confused about how you're going to re-structure the program.. if you are going to do 8 Push, 8 Pull and only 4 leg workouts.. how will each week look?

Will it be Push, Pull, Legs, Off, Push, Pull, Off, and repeat for 4 weeks? Or Push, Pull, Legs, Push, Pull, Off, Off?

I don't know if there is a massive advantage in taking that extra leg workout as an off day.. by doing that your upper body might end up overtaking your lower body in terms of development, and then you can end up in this cycle where one portion of your body is better than the other.

What you could do is just reduce the amount of volume you are doing in both leg workouts, so that they still get the frequency, but not the same volume as the upper body. That way you can keep an eye on when you think your upper body has caught up, and just increase the volume of those leg workouts again, instead of having to add another one in.

Just a thought!

I would like to follow this challenge as well. But thinking how much effective is this?