Fit and fine: Split program at the gym for beginners

In my last column, I laid down a simple rule: A beginner should stick to full body workouts for the first few months of their training career. Since the current training dogma is biased towards a single body part per training session, most trainees make the mistake of following this prevalent style of training. This leads to excessive number of exercises per body part and thus some parts get overtrained, while others undertrained or not trained at all.