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Performance Area => Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion => Topic started by: Coges on January 30, 2013, 01:13:52 am
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How long does everyone here spend in the gym?
Now I know we have to be careful when comparing ourselves to others as everyone is a special little snowflake but it seems, from look at other people's logs, that I'm spending about half as long in the gym or maybe just taking way too long between sets and doing half the amount of work.
Also, another factor is that I'm now training on a lunch break so can spend a maximum of about 40 mins in the gym now and I'm trying to program around that.
Cheers.
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It takes me about 50 mins to 1 hour to complete my weightlifting:
I do 3 combound exercises, 1 legs - 1 push - 1 pull. Each consists of 3 sets, 3 minutes rest between them, 3-5 minutes rest between exercises. My warm-up sequence is the same for all exercises, 3 sets building up intensity, ~1 min between those sets. I don't do abs or stretch at the gym, i leave right after the last working set.
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About 20-30 minutes on my main compound lift for the day whether that's bench or squat and than anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour on assistance exercises depending on the intenstity of the exercise and the amount of volume I do.
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I took about 1 hour to 1 hour and a half, but that includes changing my clothes/shoes and stretching so... probably more like 50 minutes to a hour of effective working out and resting in between sets.
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two hours from soup to nuts, give or take.
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Too long, bad habit I picked up from listening to professional obesity coaches when I first started lifting. Need to shake it off but it's so ingrained :/
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about 40min for lower body and 50min for upper body
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Wow. Im in there way to long then lol! I usually lift for 2 hours not including my dynamic warmup or stretching. I only get to the gym twice a week though so I pack a lot into my sessions. I usually spend 15-20 minutes on off days jumping and stretching.
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I read somewhere that after 47 minutes the cortisol level starts to build up pretty fast so...
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Well, that sucks. :/ I guess I need to look into ways to restrict cortisol release. Off I go.
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Well, that sucks. :/ I guess I need to look into ways to restrict cortisol release. Off I go.
Try jerking off in the gym. Then you have another 47 minutes available.
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I read somewhere that after 47 minutes the cortisol level starts to build up pretty fast so...
source? sounds dubiously specific.
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Lol! I could invite the woman for some cardio in the middle....
LBSS its probably an average from a study. I'd venture to say it differs greatly from person to person. Supposedly diet, fitness level and your tolerance to lifting can all slow the release.
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Lol! I could invite the woman for some cardio in the middle....
LBSS its probably an average from a study. I'd venture to say it differs greatly from person to person. Supposedly diet, fitness level and your tolerance to lifting can all slow the release.
yeah, probably. and i'm with you on the differing person to person. that's why i feel like a number like that is probably completely useless on an individual level.
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I read somewhere that after 47 minutes the cortisol level starts to build up pretty fast so...
source? sounds dubiously specific.
That's correct. "Dubiously" is the right way of describing that number. Who knows what the reality is? It definitely depends on the person but...
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It takes me about 50 mins to 1 hour to complete my weightlifting:
I do 3 combound exercises, 1 legs - 1 push - 1 pull. Each consists of 3 sets, 3 minutes rest between them, 3-5 minutes rest between exercises. My warm-up sequence is the same for all exercises, 3 sets building up intensity, ~1 min between those sets. I don't do abs or stretch at the gym, i leave right after the last working set.
Yep see this is my problem right here. All the rest periods (I know they're required) drive me crazy. Doing this VJB program the plyo exercises alone on one day have about 35 minutes of rest. Then doing 4-5 sets of squats and RDLs with 3 minutes rest between each and warm up sets gives another 30 plus minutes of rest. That's over an hour without even including lifting time.
I'm sure there's a way to fit it all in to 40 mins and make if effective and would be glad if anyone has any suggestions.
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It takes me about 50 mins to 1 hour to complete my weightlifting:
I do 3 combound exercises, 1 legs - 1 push - 1 pull. Each consists of 3 sets, 3 minutes rest between them, 3-5 minutes rest between exercises. My warm-up sequence is the same for all exercises, 3 sets building up intensity, ~1 min between those sets. I don't do abs or stretch at the gym, i leave right after the last working set.
Yep see this is my problem right here. All the rest periods (I know they're required) drive me crazy. Doing this VJB program the plyo exercises alone on one day have about 35 minutes of rest. Then doing 4-5 sets of squats and RDLs with 3 minutes rest between each and warm up sets gives another 30 plus minutes of rest. That's over an hour without even including lifting time.
I'm sure there's a way to fit it all in to 40 mins and make if effective and would be glad if anyone has any suggestions.
yeah, there is. sacrifice intensity. if you want to work at the upper ranges of intensity and have it work, you have to rest a lot.
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It takes me about 50 mins to 1 hour to complete my weightlifting:
I do 3 combound exercises, 1 legs - 1 push - 1 pull. Each consists of 3 sets, 3 minutes rest between them, 3-5 minutes rest between exercises. My warm-up sequence is the same for all exercises, 3 sets building up intensity, ~1 min between those sets. I don't do abs or stretch at the gym, i leave right after the last working set.
Yep see this is my problem right here. All the rest periods (I know they're required) drive me crazy. Doing this VJB program the plyo exercises alone on one day have about 35 minutes of rest. Then doing 4-5 sets of squats and RDLs with 3 minutes rest between each and warm up sets gives another 30 plus minutes of rest. That's over an hour without even including lifting time.
I'm sure there's a way to fit it all in to 40 mins and make if effective and would be glad if anyone has any suggestions.
yeah, there is. sacrifice intensity. if you want to work at the upper ranges of intensity and have it work, you have to rest a lot.
Yep. Maybe I have to be in the gym 6 days a week doing 1-2 lifts max per session.
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I read somewhere that after 47 minutes the cortisol level starts to build up pretty fast so...
precisely.
I used to need longer rests, but from working on my stamina via circuit strength training, or supersetting my core heavy lifts for the day together, I can rest noticeably less than in the past for a core lift such as deads or squats. I'll do heavy dips, heavy pullups back to back, and sometimes even add in heavy lunges as a third exercise in the circuit. As long as you go heavy, < 10RM it works. Only problem is that your blood pressure gets really high from lifting so heavy so you gotta be careful and some people will faint from this type of training. I never superset squats with anything else because I want to focus entirely on that lift, but I could do squats with heavy overhead press, or even boxing. This works wonders for saving time and increasing intensity of the workout without reducing performance on any core lift. it's just really hard.
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I read somewhere that after 47 minutes the cortisol level starts to build up pretty fast so...
Yea it does after a certain mount of time, but the "timer" would start after the first work set. I spend like 10-15 minutes just warming up for my squat. I'm sure those warm up sets don't stress my body at all to make cortisol levels rise.
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From what i've pieced together from reading internet forums, a lot of this came up as a result of the HIT nonsense that was once in vogue. The idea of doing one hard high intensity set and going home promulgated by Arthur Jones or whatever it was, was intended to get guys in and out of gyms quickly since they were mainly in the gym business.
You don't want ppl sitting there in the squat racking doing 8 sets of 5 or something because it inconveniences other customers. As far as HIT goes, It didn't really work though because ppl didn't make good gains and it's kinda well known now that naturals need a lot more volume to make progress. Anyway just food for thought, a lot of this stuff is just conjecture and I doubt it matters in the end. Maybe the explanation i've given is bs too, who knows.