quick weights routine

[eleni611]

I'm currently doing full body workouts and I really like them a lot. However, I'll be going back to school in the Fall and I have a little dilemma...I can take trigonometry at 9:00 AM with a good teacher (which would mean leaving the house at 8:30, which would mean getting up at 6 to get to the gym at 6:20, to finish at 7:20)...OR I could take the same class with a bad teacher at 10:00 AM, but I wouldn't be stressed in the mornings. The problem is that I can ONLY work out in the morning because after school I do homework and then go to training for a sport and I'm gone from 6:30-10:00, and then I come home and eat dinner and I can't fall asleep until about 12:00 or 1:00.......so that would give me about 5 hours of sleep a night. I can't go to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I'll have school from about 9:00 AM-2:30 PM, and then I'll come home and do homework and then go to the same sport training from 6:30 PM-9:00 PM......and I'm also supposed to find a job...............I think I'll probably just stick with the bad teacher. I've dealt with horrible teachers before and I always get A's and B's, but math is not one of my strong subjects...so I guess if I DO decide to take the good teacher at 9:00, do any of you know any weight lifting programs that don't take up a lot of time? My full body workouts take me one hour....thanks! Sorry this got so long :/

[Euqinom]

I'm currently doing full body workouts and I really like them a lot. However, I'll be going back to school in the Fall and I have a little dilemma...I can take trigonometry at 9:00 AM with a good teacher (which would mean leaving the house at 8:30, which would mean getting up at 6 to get to the gym at 6:20, to finish at 7:20)...OR I could take the same class with a bad teacher at 10:00 AM, but I wouldn't be stressed in the mornings. The problem is that I can ONLY work out in the morning because after school I do homework and then go to training for a sport and I'm gone from 6:30-10:00, and then I come home and eat dinner and I can't fall asleep until about 12:00 or 1:00.......so that would give me about 5 hours of sleep a night. I can't go to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I'll have school from about 9:00 AM-2:30 PM, and then I'll come home and do homework and then go to the same sport training from 6:30 PM-9:00 PM......and I'm also supposed to find a job...............I think I'll probably just stick with the bad teacher. I've dealt with horrible teachers before and I always get A's and B's, but math is not one of my strong subjects...so I guess if I DO decide to take the good teacher at 9:00, do any of you know any weight lifting programs that don't take up a lot of time? My full body workouts take me one hour....thanks! Sorry this got so long :/


Why can't you workout during the bad teacher's timeslot?
and come on,... You don't want to stick with a bad teacher for this reason, right? You can shift stuff to weekends too, maybe? (otherwise, use an A-B split, 3 compounds per workout, circuit mode. Saves you a lot of time)

[eleni611]

Why can't you workout during the bad teacher's timeslot?
and come on,... You don't want to stick with a bad teacher for this reason, right? You can shift stuff to weekends too, maybe? (otherwise, use an A-B split, 3 compounds per workout, circuit mode. Saves you a lot of time)

Once I'm at school I can't leave and come back because parking is REALLY bad and I'll never find another spot! Thanks for the advice, but I'm not really sure what an A-B split is...can you please clarify?

[Euqinom]

It's a fullbody, but split in two. For instance: deads, pull ups, shoulderpresses one day, squats, bench, rows the next.

[KyleAaron]

Sounds like you're just doing strength work? No cardio or balance or anything like that. If so...

Try this: in every workout, a deep knee-bend, pick something heavy up off the floor and put something heavy overhead. Three exercises, legs, pull, push.

For example, squats, overhead press, deadlift

For variety, you could alternate: squats, bench press, chinups then next workout deadlift, bent-over rows, overhead press.

(I'm assuming you can do chins because you have great guns in your pic, if I'm wrong, just do inverted rows.)

Pyramid your sets, first set 1/2 top weight second 2/3, third 3/4, fourth full weight. Do 6-8 reps per set. That is, 6 reps per set the first session, 7 the second, and 8 the third; in the fourth session drop back to 6 and then add weight to each exercise. In the chins, just work on the total - don't worry about sets, just make sure that if in this session if you did 10 chins total, next time do 11 or more. When you get to 50 total add weight to yourself.

Allow 10'00" for each exercise, do all 4 sets in those 10'00". That's the clock starting from 0'00" the moment you walk up to the bar, so 10'00" to load the bar, lift, rack it, change the plates, rest a bit, and do it again 3 more times.

This will be a bit less than is comfortable for leg work, a bit more than you need for presses, just about right for the pulls.

30'00" in all. Works your legs, chest and back, and good posture and bracing in all these exercises will work your core. That's your full body. Add stretches and it becomes 35'00". Quick enough?