User @turnthenotison posts upper/lower split

User @turnthenotison posted an upper/lower split on X on Saturday, laying out a four-session weekly routine built around two upper-body days and two lower-body days. The post emphasized frequency over per-session volume and prescribed two working sets to failure for each exercise, according to the X post. The exercise list included an incline Smith machine press and lat pulldown for upper days, plus squat variations and Romanian deadlifts for lower days. The format matched a common upper/lower structure in which each half of the body is trained twice per week. ### What exactly did @turnthenotison prescribe? The May 23 post described an upper/lower split with each training block performed 2x per week, according to the X post. The upper-body side named the incline Smith machine and lat pulldown among the anchor lifts, while the lower-body side named squat variations and Romanian deadlifts. The most specific programming detail was “two working sets to failure” per exercise, the post said. That places the routine on the lower-volume end of hypertrophy programming while asking for high effort on each set. ### How is this different from a standard bodybuilding split? A four-day upper/lower split is commonly organized as two upper sessions and two lower sessions across a week, fitness programming guides from A Workout Routine and Hevy say. Those guides describe the format as a way to spread work across the week instead of concentrating each muscle group into a single long session. The distinction in @turnthenotison’s post was the tradeoff between frequency and volume. Rather than adding many exercises or many hard sets in one workout, the post kept the prescription to two hard working sets and repeated upper and lower sessions twice weekly. ### Why those exercise choices? The incline Smith machine press is a chest-and-shoulder pressing variation that also offers a fixed bar path, which can reduce stability demands compared with a free barbell press, exercise guides from BarBend say. (aworkoutroutine.com) Smith-machine squat variations are also widely used as leg-focused compounds in hypertrophy programs, according to BarBend and Fitness Volt. Lat pulldowns and Romanian deadlifts fill the other major movement slots. The pulldown gives the program a vertical pull for the upper body, while the Romanian deadlift targets the posterior chain on lower days, a pairing commonly used in upper/lower templates, according to StrengthLog and broader upper/lower programming guides. ### Who is this kind of split usually for? (barbend.com) Upper/lower splits are often presented as flexible templates for lifters who want to train multiple times per week without moving to a six-day body-part split, according to A Workout Routine, Hevy and Gravitus. Those guides say the format can be adapted from two sessions weekly up to four or more, with the four-day version typically training each half twice weekly. (strengthlog.com) The post did not describe target experience level, progression rules or rest-day placement. It did, however, give enough structure for readers to identify the core framework: upper twice, lower twice, with a short exercise list and two hard sets per movement. ### What details are still missing from the post? The X post listed the split and core exercises, but it did not set out rep ranges, load progression, deload timing or exercise substitutions. (aworkoutroutine.com) Those details usually determine how a routine is run over multiple weeks, especially when sets are taken to failure. The next step for readers is to review the original May 23 post on X for the exact wording and exercise order. Any follow-up clarification from @turnthenotison would likely center on progression, rep targets and how the upper and lower sessions differ across the week.