Ummmm… 3.5 - 4… depends… I might jack that up now though, and see what happens… 
Could be cool… This is all lifting… no cardio…
8-10 hours a week. Gained 40lbs in 6 mos.Lost 2" off my waist
In my opinion, if your going to do it. Do it right. 2-2.5 hrs a day is a decent workout. 20- 30 minutes on 1 muscle group isnt a full pump.
[quote]jimmi wrote:
In my opinion, if your going to do it. Do it right. 2-2.5 hrs a day is a decent workout. 20- 30 minutes on 1 muscle group isnt a full pump.[/quote]
I can’t say I agree with that, congrats on getting results but just because you did doesn’t mean it would work the same for everyone.
If you can do 2-2.5 hours a day on a single muscle group it’s my opinion you’re not trying hard enough.
Are you actually training for that length of time or is some of it spent staring at the girls on the t readmills?
[quote]Tumbles wrote:
If you can do 2-2.5 hours a day on a single muscle group it’s my opinion you’re not trying hard enough.
Are you actually training for that length of time or is some of it spent staring at the girls on the t readmills?[/quote]
I agree with this. Unless someone is genetically gifted as far as recovery, much past one hour and I am beginning to doubt just how hard you are working those muscle groups. How do you have 2.5 hours of reserve left in the tank after doing 3-4 exercises all out for a body part?
So much depends on the rest time.
It’s hard for me to figure why it’s a common belief for example that 24 sets in 1 hour is okay, but done in 2 hours is foolish and will wipe you out.
It’s true that the 2 hour workout will, in my opinion, best be supported with a refeed at the 1 hour point, but given that and proper pre and post nutrition, there’s nothing wrong with it.
And why take 2 hours to do for example 24 sets when one could get them done in an hour?
Well because one may prefer, either generally or at that time, the resulting longer rest periods for the sake of more performance in the sets, or because it’s low rep work, or because it’s a Hepburn-style workout (good luck doing that in an hour for two exercises) or other reasons.
Anyway I just got off of 9 weeks of which all but two were at 10 hours per week, and currently am at somewhat less than that, now being off-cycle. A little hard to say what, as it’s complex and, unfortunately, today I can’t find my workout book (this almost never happens and hopefully it will turn up, but isn’t at hand right now.)
Trying to estimate though, the next couple of months are 9 days out of every 11, of which 3 are Hepburn-type workouts of 2 hours each, there’s another conventional squat/DL workout that’s 2 hours, and the others are I think all one hour. So that’s 13 hours total per 11 days, which averages about 8 hours a week.
Seems to me that number of sets is much more indicative than total time, though not all sets are equal to each other in terms of demand on recovery and so sometimes what is literally a large number for a given exercise should be “counted” as less for the sake of evaluating overall toughness-to-do.
I am not saying I work 1 group for 2-2.5 hours. I just see alot of guys working 1 muscle group for 20 minutes and moving to a different muscle group. 8-8-4-4-2-2-1-1 is a great regiment for me and its hard to hit that in twenty minutes more than once for any group.
[quote]PF_88 wrote:
I know the question of how long you spend in gym has been asked quite often but I was curious as to how many hours everyone lifts per week. Not time spent doing mobility work or stretching or cardio, but actual lifting.
I found out I spend about 200 to 210 minutes, or about 3.5 hours of actual weight lifting, and wondering how everyone else compares.[/quote]
Gear is a factor. Someone who is on a cycle will as a general rule be able to do more in terms of hours in the gym and the number of concurrent days in the gym.
I do not train for aesthetic purposes so my opinion does not mean anything but from everyone whom I spoken with in my gym the bigger (more lean) guys always seem to spend more hours training than I do. I am 250 lbs, not very lean though I am strong and I only spend a whopping 180 minutes per week in the gym – some of which is not spent actually lifting. If I were to try and lean out and maintain my current weight I no doubt would probably need to spend more time in the gym actually lifting and doing those cute isometric lifts too.
I don’t think I would have that kind of dedication nor inclination to do so unless I had access to gear.
I train about 8 hours a week. That’s just weight training, not other activities.
[quote]Tumbles wrote:
If you can do 2-2.5 hours a day on a single muscle group it’s my opinion you’re not trying hard enough.
Are you actually training for that length of time or is some of it spent staring at the girls on the t readmills?[/quote]
agreed. It takes me about 30-35 mins to do 10-15 sets. That’s enough volume for me for a body part.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Tumbles wrote:
If you can do 2-2.5 hours a day on a single muscle group it’s my opinion you’re not trying hard enough.
Are you actually training for that length of time or is some of it spent staring at the girls on the t readmills?
agreed. It takes me about 30-35 mins to do 10-15 sets. That’s enough volume for me for a body part.[/quote]
x3, 15 sets is typically my volume for each body part right now, depending on the body part.
For those doing around or over 2 hours per body part-
How many sets/exercises do you get in?
In my case if it’s a typical workout (no very high percent 1RM lifts) about 24 work sets and not very many, if any, warmup sets is typical.
So as rough estimation if the work sets average 30 seconds duration (higher reps sets can be 60 seconds though) that would work out to 12 minutes of actual lifting and 4.7 minutes between sets. Actually I am aiming for 4 minutes between sets in most workouts, but some time is always lost e.g. setting up exercises. Some workouts require aiming for 3 minutes between sets to fit into the 2 hours.
E.g. my shoulders/traps workout last training cycle required aiming for 3 minutes between sets as did the midback/lats workout to complete them in time.
actually lifting it gets tricky. like taking away the time i rest between sets, it would not be a whole heck of a lot i do not think. but for actualy gym time, 3+ hours a week
45 to 75 minutes per session@ 4-5 sessions a week
i think thats the typical amount of time for most people making progress.
Usually around 6 hours a week for me. I train 5 days a week and almost all last in between 60-75 minutes. Bill’s point on rest periods was great though. I think I take longer rest periods than most, resulting in longer training time.
About 2.5 to 3 hrs a week. If I’m trying to cut up, I’ll do alot of cardio, up to 12 hrs on my treadmill at home
depends on the splits, some weeks it’s three days, other times four days a week. each session is between 1hr an 2hrs, again depending upon the split. 6-8hrs a week sounds right typically.
4.5 hours of lifting, 1.5 hours of conditioning.