There isn't really a wrong way to do it, IMO
Most long-term weight lifters do it this way to keep things organized and keep track of their progress and their benchmarks in different exercises, but you can just do general fitness training without separating your workout into muscle groups if you don't care about that stuff
It really depends on your goals, the place that you're ideally trying to get to. If you want to put on muscle mass I do think it helps to break it down into muscle groups. But some people don't want to put on too much muscle, they just want to be lean and generally fit
When I started weight lifting I would just sort of do whatever exercises I was in the mood to do. And I still do that from time to time. And I prefer some exercises (like pull-ups) over others, so I don't give completely equal attention to all muscle groups (I'm not gonna do a hundred crunches), so you can even do a mixture of focusing on muscle groups and occasionally doing whole-body workouts or just doing whatever strikes your fancy in a given day
I know it kind of sounds like I'm not giving a straight answer, but I've found that what has made exercising fun for me, and has made it a long-term hobby, is being flexible with how I organize my workouts
If you do it long enough you will most likely develop a routine without even planning it out, because often you have to squeeze workouts into every other life responsibility, so often you will want to be exercising on autopilot
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