Originally Posted by greg57

Balance is a funny notion, look at bodybuilders who obsess over it and ask yourself are they really balanced? Maybe in appearance. I grappled with this going from bodypart spits to full body workouts. I think it is impossible to actually work out every muscle in one session, but doing whole body workouts counter intuitively gives you the best balance. Why? Because compound movements force your weaker links to catch up. Also looking at strength from a longer perspective helps you consider that for a while you may do more shoulder dominant overhead pressing for a while, you can do a bit of chest dominant pressing later on. Here with cycling you can reach a more dynamic balance of doing one thing for a while and something else for a bit after that. I much prefer this over trying to evenly work the body every day or week.