Which is the best split routine?

[BodybyJoel]

I've been lifting for 7 years now (unfortunately on and off). I've done everything from a full body 3 days a week to a 6 day split routine.

For strength I noticed a simpler full body workout with a large focus on compound workouts brought the best results. Once it was harder to recover due to my strength an intensity increase I went to a 3 day split.

I was doing this for the majority of my lifting time.

Monday: Chest, Shoulders and Triceps.

Tuesday: Off

Wednesday: Back and Biceps

Thursday: Off

Friday: Legs

Saturday & Sunday: off

Later on I switched legs for Saturday and did my shoulders exclusively on Fridays (really helped me from shoulder pain on bench press and incline)

I only had one true off day, I would do some sort of cardio on my 2 other non lifting days.

What have you guys tried?
What worked?
What Didn't?

 

[Buildingup24]

Crazy as it sounds, I did full body 5x a week for about 7 weeks--pics are in my log titled Size/Strength & Awesomeness. Took pics about 2 weeks after and you can really see the diff it had- Stopped because, well, it was brutal.

 

[BodybyJoel]

About every 5 months a do a couple of weeks of full body and I know what you mean.