I have a question about the length of training sessions. I have read that over an hour is not good, however I am usually in the gym for an an hour and a half to hour and 45 min. This include some warm ups and also I rest like a minute between sets. I know I should prlly bring my rest time down, but is it really bad to be in the gym this long. I go hard on my exercises but I feel like I can go the whole time, its not like i get to an hour and can’t do any more.
if you have the same amount of energy after the 105th minute as you did after the 5th minute of your workout youre completely wasting your time. Im sure you ‘go real hard’ lol
You didnt provide nearly enough information to give an asnwer to your question.
What do you mean by ‘some warm ups’? Does this mean mobility and stretching drills at the start of your session? I find that after about an hour I have nothing left to give and more importantly that I have done everything I need to do. Why do what you can achieve in under an hour in an hour and a half? Just seems pointless.
A good guideline for an underweight beginner is to train no longer than 45-60 minutes. And that is a workout consisting of say, three compound movements and perhaps 2 auxiliary exercises. This worked for me. My favorite was squats followed by incline bench presses supersett-ed with chins. Then perhaps calf raises and abs, but the first three exercises were the ‘money’ exercises. Set and rep ranges between 8 sets of 3, and 3-5 sets of 3-5 reps worked well, reps of 10 did not.
And yes, I have spent 90 minutes in the gym as a newbie trying to do a 70 set muscle and fitness pro bodybuilder workout and making no progress what-so-ever, please do not make the same mistake.
More is not always better.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
if you have the same amount of energy after the 105th minute as you did after the 5th minute of your workout youre completely wasting your time. Im sure you ‘go real hard’ lol
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This^
I get tired from m core lifts but then throw in some assistance exercises at the end for arms to top things off. I’m trying to make a 3 day push pull routine and I’m having trouble cutting down on the amount of exercises. I’ll post it here before I’m done for you guys to give feedback
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
I get tired from m core lifts but then throw in some assistance exercises at the end for arms to top things off. I’m trying to make a 3 day push pull routine and I’m having trouble cutting down on the amount of exercises. I’ll post it here before I’m done for you guys to give feedback [/quote]
Search “do this routine instead of that dumb one” in the search bar, and read that thread.
How long should a workout be? Well…
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
I rest like a minute between sets. I know I should prlly bring my rest time down[/quote]
Why? I very rarely time my rests anymore, but I know that resting under a minute per set for an entire session wouldn’t get me very far when trying to build strength.
You shouldn’t be feeling daisy fresh and perky when you’re done training, but you also shouldn’t be gasping for air like an asthmatic marathon runner.
For better advice, we definitely need to see your current routine (days, exercises, sets, and reps), as well knowing what your current goals actually are.
As a beginner, you don’t need 90min in the gym. You should take less than an hour. Post your routine here, something is probably wrong. If you’re having trouble cutting exercises, than you’re trying to do too much at once, or you have the same thing multiple times.
Yeah I have been lifting for 6 months, still a beginner but not completely new to it. Heres the routine I just did for 9 weeks.
Workout 1
Deadlift- squat - bench press- incline dumbbell bench- cable flyes- beng over row- chin ups
Workout 2
Squat- pull up - shoulder press- upright rows- lateral raises- barbell curls- dumbbell curls- cable curls- dips- lying triceps xtensions barbell- triceps extensions cable
Week 1 I do workout 1 on Monday/ Friday and workout 2 on Wednesday
Week 2 I do workout 2 on Monday/ Friday and workout 1 on Wednesday
After these 2 weeks I start over
I am considering switching to a new one though, 3 day push pull split, you can see that one in the thread labeled “critique this routine” or something like that. Its not done yet, just what im considering doing.
Oh also all exercises follow a 10-8-6 rep scheme
Your doing 7 exercises one day, and 12 on the other.
Doesn’t that seem excessive, when you write it down? Especially when compared to say the 3 month challenge Wendler wrote up recently?
Or, say compared to a normal BB split, that may only have 3 exercises per muscle group, 5 times a week, should be ~15-20 excercises, where as you are doing 26 one week and 31 the other.
Work out what is working keep that, drop what isn’t. Or get a new program.
What’s your reasoning for doing three different workouts for your triceps and your biceps, but only doing squats and deads for your legs???
If your goal is strength you need to focus on the big four and quit just trying to get “hawt” armz
Trash your routine and do what chris said, search “do this routine instead of that dumb one?”
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
Workout 1
Deadlift- squat - bench press- incline dumbbell bench- cable flyes- beng over row- chin ups
Workout 2
Squat- pull up - shoulder press- upright rows- lateral raises- barbell curls- dumbbell curls- cable curls- dips- lying triceps xtensions barbell- triceps extensions cable[/quote]
You’re doing three times as much work for biceps as you are for legs. That’s just nutty.
Also, when you’re doing full body-type training (which this essentially is), you don’t usually do multiple exercises per bodypart, you pick the best bang-for-buck lifts and go balls out on those.
I’ll take a look.
Like I asked before… what’s your current goal? That’s definitely a factor in how you design your training plan.
[quote]bulkNcut wrote:
I have a question about the length of training sessions. I have read that over an hour is not good, however I am usually in the gym for an an hour and a half to hour and 45 min. This include some warm ups and also I rest like a minute between sets. I know I should prlly bring my rest time down, but is it really bad to be in the gym this long. I go hard on my exercises but I feel like I can go the whole time, its not like i get to an hour and can’t do any more. [/quote]
You can stay at the gym 8 hour a day if you’re just sitting in it and you won’t die.
I used to stay 1h30 to 2h at the gym, but I was working out something like 1h15 max and stretching, cooling down, chilling a bit here and there and it was ok.
Now my schedule forces me to work out 45 min to 1h max a day and the results are great too.
Btw your program is not fine.