With the kids being in activities and life being especially busy in the summer, I was wondering if someone had a quick routine for the summer months. Thanks Paul.
buy a thighmaster. i’m sure it comes with some routines that might give you what you’re looking for.
Thanks 1morerep. That’s just the kind of feedback I was looking for. BTW, I’m guessing you’re 5’2" from your avatar. Is that about right?
[quote]Paul66 wrote:
With the kids being in activities and life being especially busy in the summer, I was wondering if someone had a quick routine for the summer months. Thanks Paul.[/quote]
Paul,
The Thighmaster is strictly for advanced users…
Seriously, what are your goals? Are you trying to shed some weight, add muscle, get stronger?
Lots of people will be glad to help with a little background info.
Thanks for the positive response Polish Rifle.
I am looking to maintain what I’ve built up in the Winter and Spring. If I could find a full body routine that I can do twice a week or maybe even three times that takes a maximum of 45 minutes.
[quote]Paul66 wrote:
Thanks for the positive response Polish Rifle.
I am looking to maintain what I’ve built up in the Winter and Spring. If I could find a full body routine that I can do twice a week or maybe even three times that takes a maximum of 45 minutes.[/quote]
I personally prefer a 4-day split, but you can make do with a 3-day full body routine. Here’s one that you can do M-W-F, which should take no more than 45-60 minutes depending on your speed:
Bench Press
Chest Flies
Back Squats
Lat Pulls or Chin Ups
Bicep Curls
Tricep Pull Downs
Tricep Extensions
Leg Press
You would need to determine rep ranges and total sets.
Does this help?
[quote]Paul66 wrote:
Thanks 1morerep. That’s just the kind of feedback I was looking for. BTW, I’m guessing you’re 5’2" from your avatar. Is that about right?[/quote]
close–5’7"
[quote]Paul66 wrote:
Thanks for the positive response Polish Rifle.
I am looking to maintain what I’ve built up in the Winter and Spring. If I could find a full body routine that I can do twice a week or maybe even three times that takes a maximum of 45 minutes.[/quote]
Or buy Brawn or Supersquats or New Rules of Lifting and get ideas from there.
But basically for a full body workout, you just need 1 or 2 leg exercises, a chest/triceps exercise, and a pull/biceps exercie.
For example:
Squat, decline bench, incline bench, chins, and maybe some crunches and you’re golden. You can add some assistance work for triceps or biceps or whatever but that’s just gravy and really probably just wasting your time.
The next question is sets and reps. If you’re doing the same exercise every time you’re working out, then you don’t have to do as much volume as when you work that exercise once a week. So let’s say you’d normally do 3 sets of 10, if you spread that out over the week, that’s 1 set of 10 each workout.
You shouldn’t do the same workout every time you work out so you can:
- Just increase the weight with each workout and then when you reach failure, just drop the weights on that exercise and start ramping up again.
- Change exercises periodically but keep the mix of TYPES of exercises the same. For example, front squats for 3 weeks, then regular squats for 3 weeks, then pause squats for 3 weeks, etc. You still need to increase your weights when you workout.
- Have A and B workouts (or even A, B, and C) with different exercises and then alternate them. Just have each be full body. And try to keep the weights going up.
HTH.
Thanks Pencil Neck.
[quote]Paul66 wrote:
Thanks for the positive response Polish Rifle.
I am looking to maintain what I’ve built up in the Winter and Spring. If I could find a full body routine that I can do twice a week or maybe even three times that takes a maximum of 45 minutes.[/quote]
Maybe Triple Total Training?