How to Build a Push/Pull/Legs Split From Workouts You've Already Saved

Push/pull/legs (PPL) is one of the most durable training splits because it’s simple to explain and hard to mess up: push days train chest, shoulders and triceps, pull days train back and biceps, leg days train everything below the hips. It also happens to be a great fit for a library of saved social-media workouts, because most of them already lean toward one of the three without saying so.

Step 1: Sort what you’ve already saved

Open your saved workouts and sort each one into push, pull, legs, or “mixed/full body”. Use the primary muscles trained, not the title — a video called “upper body burn” that’s mostly bench press, push-ups and shoulder press is a push day, even if it never says so. Most people find their library is push-and-legs heavy and pull-light; that imbalance is worth noting now.

Step 2: Fill the gaps — pull day usually needs it

If your saved library is thin on pull work, that’s the day to go find one or two more videos for: rows, pull-ups or lat pulldowns, face pulls, curls. Pull exercises are less common in short-form fitness content than push and leg work, so this is normal, not a sign you’ve been saving badly.

Step 3: Lay out the week

PPL scales from 3 to 6 days a week depending on how often you can train. Three common layouts:

Six days a week means each muscle group gets trained roughly twice — generally better for progress than once, as long as you can actually recover between sessions. Three days a week still works fine; you just accept each muscle group gets one dedicated day.

Step 4: Assign your saved workouts to days

This is where a saved library earns its keep — you’re not writing a new programme, you’re slotting existing workouts into a structure. In Prept’s workout planner, that means dragging a push workout onto Monday, a pull workout onto Tuesday, and so on, with rest days marked so they stay clear across the week. On paper, the same logic works with a calendar and a list.

Step 5: Log it, and rotate every month

Run the split for 4–6 weeks, logging sets, reps and weight each session. At the end of the block, look at what stalled and swap that day’s workout for a similar one from your library — this is the whole reason to keep saving new videos even once your split is set. Prept’s guided workout log keeps this on one calendar, so the review step is a two-minute look back instead of reconstructing what happened from memory.

Frequently asked questions

Is push/pull/legs better than full-body?

Neither is objectively better — PPL suits people training 4+ days a week who want to specialise each session; full-body suits 2–3 days a week where hitting everything each session matters more.

Where do abs and calves go in a PPL split?

Most people add abs and calves to leg day, or spread short finishers across all three days — neither approach is wrong, since both muscle groups recover quickly and tolerate frequent training.

What if a saved workout trains both push and pull muscles?

File it under whichever it leans toward more heavily, or save it as a “full body” option for weeks you can only train 3 days. Checking a muscle breakdown per workout makes this call easy instead of a guess.