87 reviews for Full Body Powerbuilding Split

Dr. Swole's science-based 3 Day Full Body Powerbuilding Split is designed for hypertrophy and strength. You train your full body 3x a week.

This program is made for beginners but will also work for some early intermediate athletes. A beginner is someone in their first 1-2 years of serious training.

This is a low volume program, which means you aren't spending excess hours in the gym but will still make excellent progress.

Read below for full program instructions.

4.19 / 5

Bill B.

Man, 23
18 days ago

8 weeks complete

4 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

Great workout plan for those with Busy schedules!

Chris Stein

Man, 20
a month ago

3 weeks complete

4 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

I like the full body aspect and think it has some good variations. Something I would change are exercises always being in the same order for example lateral raises have always been last which I don’t like because then I don’t get significant gain on them so I had to switch them myself. Also some days just feel like way to much volume with me needing to take a set or two off or even skip a whole exercise due to overall fatigue. I have been adapting though as time goes on and getting better.

Man, 25
a month ago

3 weeks complete

1 year of prior experience

Less than expected strength gains

Less than expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

There are not much alternative exercise on some exercise such as pull up ,t bar row and close grip bench press

Ricky K.

Man, 24
2 months ago

5 weeks complete

2 years of prior experience

More than expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Significant modifications

Was pretty good. I personally modified it to be more hypertrophy focused but running it as is will net you great results. The workouts do take quite longer than an hour, however.

Jheidanne T.

Man, 12
2 months ago

3 weeks complete

2 years of prior experience

More than expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

This is a good program for beginners if I were to rate it would be a 10/10

Ozgur Yaris

Man, 50
3 months ago

6 weeks complete

2 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

I am on 4th week of the program it's seems good for all body training I added abs and rear delt exercises with some forearm exercises as well RPE 9 sometimes 10 little intense for beginners but we will see . I just finishing today and I have to add couple of things rpe s quite high on the bench specifically platoo very quickly.Rear delt was not hitting as much so I added that abs and forearm.Most important thing is if you want to do proper warm up and dynamic stretches and warm up sets before big lifts which is deadlifts squats bench barbell press it takes nearly 2 hours.ita too long for my liking.other than that u can have decent strength and some muscle gain but I wouldn't go back this program soon.

Paul Bachelier

Man, 33
3 months ago

3 weeks complete

8 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

Very good, well-rounded and fun program to follow. However, the sessions often last more than an hour. Including the warm-up and ramp-up sets, it can sometimes take up to 1.5 hours.  Très bon programme, complet et amusant à réaliser. En revanche les séances font souvent plus d’une heure. En comptant l’échauffement et la montée en charge, il faut parfois jusqu’à 1h30.

Francesco

Man, 32
4 months ago

3 weeks complete

2 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

Edit video instructions for day one, give alternatives for squat

Arianna D.

Woman, 15
5 months ago

3 weeks complete

1 year of prior experience

More than expected strength gains

More than expected muscle gains

Marginal modifications

Yeahhh buddyyy

Lukian Goth

Man, 29
5 months ago

3 weeks complete

2 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Significant modifications

No or wrong pictures of the exercise.