How long do your workouts usually last minus stretching and cardio. I do a 5 day split chest/back/legs/shoulders/arms, and I do abs 2x a week, and my workouts only last about 45-60 minutes. I do 16 sets a bodypart give or take a few. Is this out of the ordinary?
Thanks
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Thread: Length of Workouts
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10-03-2006, 07:22 AM #1
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10-03-2006, 07:26 AM #2
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It takes me 30-45 mins. I tend to take my time between sets so my breathing can fully recover.
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10-03-2006, 07:27 AM #3
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10-03-2006, 09:32 AM #4
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10-03-2006, 09:39 AM #5
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10-03-2006, 11:56 AM #6
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Wow! That's short. That's what it used to take me at the gym. The problem now is that there are soo many people at the gym around the same time I am doing the same exercise I am...I just plan on being at the gym for awhile on days where I work out my chest. Otherwise, my workouts go about an hour or less. That's part of the reason I had stopped doing chest exercises on Monday.
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10-03-2006, 12:06 PM #7
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10-03-2006, 12:43 PM #8Originally Posted by Frankenfield
I think 45-60 minutes is fairly standard with some people falling a bit on either side of that time line. Also their are studies that show your hormones go to a less then perfect place when training hard for longer then an hour, though how this will actually impact you isnt clear (at least as far as I've seen). As long as your total training volume is balanced with your recovery abilities you are good to go."Leave the pump in the bedroom and add some damn weight to the bar" - Dave Tate
"Train for strength, eat to grow and you will get bigger and stronger" - Someone bigger and stronger then me
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10-03-2006, 12:47 PM #9
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10-03-2006, 01:01 PM #10
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10-03-2006, 01:10 PM #11
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10-03-2006, 01:44 PM #12Originally Posted by Andalite
Did I say something you didn't understand????height = 5'7"
weight = 200lbs as of 12-22
waist = 31" as of 12-22
arms = 20"
max bench = 495lbs
max leg press = 1305lbs
max curl = 215lbs
max squat = 585lbs
max military press = 495lbs / smith machine
seated military press = 405lbs x 3
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10-03-2006, 02:19 PM #13
My total confusion
I'm very confused, so many mutually contradicting data I get within the subject of bodybuilding. This issue is one example.
I'm often told that a session that exceeds 45 min. induces catabolic state.
Yet a study of known training programmes often shows that there is something wrong out there.
Example 1. -> http://www.teenbodybuilding.com/locke12.htm
This training programme cannot fit in a 45 min. session, can it?
Excerpt from the work-out routine: MONDAY (QUADS, HAMSTRINGS, CALVES). Barbell Squat: ?xPyramid. Leg Presses: 5xPyramid. Seated Calf Raise: 3x15. Leg Curls: 4x8. Leg Extension: 4x8. Standing Calf Raise: 3x12. (Every 2nd Week.) Front Kick: 2x15. Abduction: 2x15.
Example 2. -> http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/woods2.htm
25 sets on Monday, usually 6-8 repetitions.
This one also specifically advises 90 secs. rest between each repetition. This would mean about 15 mins. per set. Multiply it by 25 (by 24 to make the mental arithmetic easier) and you get... a 6 hours-long work-out. (It says furthermore: If you have any questions, please e-mail me at Twoods230@aol.com.)
Example 3. -> Wikipedia: Weight Training. Basic Principles
Wikipedia advises between 4-8 sets per exercise, 8-15 repetitions per set, and 2:20-6:00 mins of time per set, including rest between sets. This means to me that a single exercise could take anything between... 1.5 hour (4 x 8 x 2:20) and 12 hours (8 x 15 x 6:00).
Added next day: Single work-out session would last, according to these data, between 4.5 hours (for 3 exercises) and... 3.5 days (up to 7 exercises), as my simple calculation shows.
And this is the column hypertrophy only! Don't even try the same arithmetic for endurance.
Is there something wrong with my intellectual capabilities?
-- n6tdcLast edited by n6tdc; 10-04-2006 at 01:42 AM. Reason: Improving readability
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10-03-2006, 02:24 PM #14
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10-03-2006, 03:15 PM #15
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10-04-2006, 05:14 AM #16Originally Posted by Andalite
That, I bet is gonna be a funny answer!height = 5'7"
weight = 200lbs as of 12-22
waist = 31" as of 12-22
arms = 20"
max bench = 495lbs
max leg press = 1305lbs
max curl = 215lbs
max squat = 585lbs
max military press = 495lbs / smith machine
seated military press = 405lbs x 3
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10-04-2006, 05:52 AM #17Originally Posted by OKgymNUT
nonetheless i know even the pros on westside dont train 2x5 per week....
but hey: ur strong so be happy
oh, and im not all that far behind u
my max leg press is 800 lbs
squat 310
bench 210 (shoulder injury)
deadlift 350
and im 18 and 5'7 @ 170 lbs
lol.....i still cant believe u got so strong training 5x a week that too doing 2 hrs a day!!! that virtually contradicts everything guys like DC, Iron Addict Chad Waterbury etc say and i find that tres ironic
best of luck sir
Andalite
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10-04-2006, 06:42 AM #18
I use an hour per part, but I don't do one set after another. I take a few minutes so I can concentrate on getting the most out of each lift.
Nice stats.height = 5'7"
weight = 200lbs as of 12-22
waist = 31" as of 12-22
arms = 20"
max bench = 495lbs
max leg press = 1305lbs
max curl = 215lbs
max squat = 585lbs
max military press = 495lbs / smith machine
seated military press = 405lbs x 3
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10-04-2006, 07:07 AM #19
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10-04-2006, 07:15 AM #20
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10-04-2006, 07:30 AM #21
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10-04-2006, 07:33 AM #22Originally Posted by Andalite
Sure. I'm always willing to help others.height = 5'7"
weight = 200lbs as of 12-22
waist = 31" as of 12-22
arms = 20"
max bench = 495lbs
max leg press = 1305lbs
max curl = 215lbs
max squat = 585lbs
max military press = 495lbs / smith machine
seated military press = 405lbs x 3
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10-09-2006, 02:49 PM #23
So what's wrong with these training programmes (or my calculations)?
No-one has referred to my calculations yet. Maybe because the article was too lengthy. Re-stating my question:
Why is it that my calculations of work-out lengths for known training programmes on the web yield such grotesque results?
For example, to follow the programme from example no. 2 (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/woods2.htm), one would have to conduct 6 hours-long work-outs.
Or, if to consider Wikipedia (Weight Training. Basic Principles) seriously, your work-outs should be anything between 4.5 hours and 3.5 days long.
And I could find dozens of other programmes on-line that come with incongruencies of this sort, that annihilate the value of their authors' effort to me. (Such a pity.)
Are my calculations wrong, or is it just a prevailing trend for the majority of descriptions of the training programmes to be wrong and filled with errors?
-- n6tdcLast edited by n6tdc; 10-09-2006 at 02:56 PM.
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08-06-2009, 08:59 AM #24
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less than an hour!
I have read this thread, and after watching the reissue dvd of Pumping Iron where in the extras a body building expert says never go over an hour.
My question is how can you get your workout into less than an hour ?
In keeping under an hour, does that refer to under an hour of weights. If I dont count the cardio its about an hour.
I do 10-15 mins warm up; bike, rower, body weight exercises.
Then in the workout I only take 1 minutes rest between sets. 2 minutes on leg sets.
I finish up with 15 minutes cardio, and stretching.
I never stop to talk, and stay focused the whole time, but can never get it all done in less than an hour and a half!
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08-06-2009, 10:02 AM #25
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