How Long Are Your Workouts?

Usually 2 hours, sometimes less if I’m not going too heavy.

Depends on what program.
Some of the more serious sheiko programs has been like 2½-3 hours, now I do around 2 hours.

Interesting.

There seems to be quite a contrast between the duration of people’s workouts.

I think I remember reading an article from CT about when your training purely for strength, your obviously taking longer rest periods, say 3 minutes, and so the 60 minute rule isn’t as important because your actually resting much more than your training.

If your strength workout lasted, for, say 90 minutes, and your rest periods were long, it’s not really a problem because you never really trained for more than 60 minutes anyway.

Depends, if I’m training 3-4 times per week, I need to give it 1-1.5hrs per session. Ideally though, I like to split things up A LOT more and give myself maybe 30mins every day, with a rest day only when I really need it.

Core lift is ~45 minutes. Entire gym time (warm up, trip, pre/post nutrition, cool down, chatting up treadmill bunnies) can make it take up to 2 hrs

I set aside about 2 hours of gym time on lifting days. I usually leave my house and returned within those 2 hours, but that includes driving to the gym, warming up, lifting, abz, cardio, stretching, driving home.

Something I really enjoy is getting to the gym, powering through my workout in an hour and some change, and just relax and do abz/cardio/stretch while I cool off.

2 to 2.5 hours back when I was Olympic lifting, that was real tough shit (5 days a week). Now doing 5/3/1 four days a week, 45-60 mins a session. I like it a lot better. :slight_smile:

90 mins max. Sometimes if I have time I’ll split Chest/Back, Legs/Shoulders into two 45 min sessions one in the AM one PM so I can hit each muscle group with maximum intensity.

45 minutes if the ed hardy gang isn’t sitting on the machines i need using their cell phones…

1.5 to 2 hours. Sometimes a little longer on a full day.

at the moment and for 4 weeks only 14 minutes workout.

Tabata workout

2 weeks ago it was around 40 minutes. I only rest one minute between sets.

I train for powerlifting.

Warmup: 30-45 minutes
Workout: 90-120 minutes

I do things in a pretty slow pace, with plenty of rest.

For the longest time my workouts were always about 50-60 minutes. Recently they have gone down to more like 35-45 minutes. Not really sure what changed, that’s just where I find I’m finishing everything I want to do and/or am exhausted.

~1.5 hours on lifting days, 45-50 minutes on cardio days.

[quote] Matt wrote:
Usually 2 hours, sometimes less if I’m not going too heavy.[/quote]

Just curious how going less heavy equals less time for you. Personally, whenever I am lifting heavier, 2-3RM range, I tire a lot quicker and end up finishing earlier(or just getting completely wrecked earlier) But when I’m going lighter, that’s usually when I end up spending over an hour, close to 2, cause I’ll do the sets I’m most interested in, then spend time doing whatever.

1hr 45min typically.

10min warm up/mobility

push, pull, press, lower body, 2 assistance lifts

Short rests btwn sets but 4-5min between changing lifts. (that’s 25min right there)

then i spend a good 13min looking at my abs in the mirror whilst flexing my guns and pretending i’m whiping my upper lip.

as long as necessary…i usually do something like 12-15 sets…takes about 1 hr usually

Chest- 70 minutes
Legs- 90 minutes
Biceps- 30 minutes
Triceps- 60 minutes
Back- 90 minutes
Shoulders- 45 minutes

Estimates

4 days a week full body: 3 hours in the morning (main lifts) and 2 hours at night (accessory lifts)
Cardio for an hour on off days

I’ve been doing this off and on for a couple years now (as time allows) and always come back to it when I need quick size and strength gains.

As I am doing DC at the moment, my three sessions a week are taking about an hour and a half as I need some serious rest time between bodyparts and sets.