BFL vs Muscle and Fitness 5 week program

I have a question about these 2 programs. They might seem similar in generalization, but they are different in their methodologies.

BFL works by doing workouts 3 days a week with cardio the other 3 days. You do alternating upper and lower body workouts, with 6 sets and 2 exercises (5 - 1) for each body part.

In the MF schedule, it looks like a lot of advanced stuff that I'm not sure a beginner would benefit from. You're doing chest and back one day, thighs calves and abs another day, and shoulders traps and arms the third day. Their cardio advice looks very interesting since it makes you change everytime, as well as suggesting that you change cardio every workout. Looks like we might make a hybrid here and get it to work Only problem is their workout routine is for 5 weeks. Very unrealistic to expect major results in anytime less than 3 months in my opinion. Here's the link to it: http://www.muscleandfitness.com/mf/weider/111902/ 5_weeks.html

I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about this, as well as BFL. I didn't say much about BFL since I know almost everyone here knows about it.

Thanks,

Oh man, I could barely get through the first weights 'article'. Quelle merde. Please, do yourself a favour and never read Muscle and Fiction again. Obviously the ghost writers have been snorting Ajax again.

OK, I ASSume you're a beginner. Sounds like, if you want to pick one or the other, BFL is the one for you. However BFL is nothing special, really. Any program which uses some well-chosen exercises, moderate loading, and focuses on learning technique will work just fine. Beginners shouldn't waste their time with complicated splits, exercise selections, and loading parameters (actually, few of us really should). A basic program with a full body workout plan, or a simple split, will be adequate.

I'll add to this how important it is to go to the gym with a planned routine. I got a lot of benefit from BFL precisely because it required me to plan out my work-out (reps, weights, sets) rather than having me just desultorily hit machines for a set or two in whatever circuit they've got.

As always.....solid advice from Krista. Take note beginners, this lady knows her 'merde'. I personally prefer a full body routine simply because you can do more sets per week per muscle group than with a split routine.