Help needed with a program

[cardioking]

Ok, my work schedule along with my family schedule is preventing me from going to a gym more than 3 nights a week. The rest of the week I can easily dedicate 30-45 minutes to running or some other type of cardio. I can do a Tuesday, Thurs and Saturday routine.

My goal is to lose weight and build more muscular endurance than strength.

Should I alternate between upper and lower body or should I do something else?

[cardioking]

Originally Posted by cardioking

Ok, my work schedule along with my family schedule is preventing me from going to a gym more than 3 nights a week. The rest of the week I can easily dedicate 30-45 minutes to running or some other type of cardio. I can do a Tuesday, Thurs and Saturday routine.

My goal is to lose weight and build more muscular endurance than strength.

Should I alternate between upper and lower body or should I do something else?

Just to add............ I am going to try for 20 reps per exercise and once I hit 20 reps I will move up in weight.

The other option I was wondering about is maybe doing a full body workout 2 times a week like multi-bodypart exercises like a burpee or like a squat and shoulder press

[sparty3]

Originally Posted by cardioking

Just to add............ I am going to try for 20 reps per exercise and once I hit 20 reps I will move up in weight.

The other option I was wondering about is maybe doing a full body workout 2 times a week like multi-bodypart exercises like a burpee or like a squat and shoulder press

You should do push ups and other exercises of that sort when you cant go to the gym. Jumping Jax lol, anything that burns fat. Just because you cant make it to gym that day doesn't mean that you cant work out at all. Also I would suggest you running on one spot absolutely naked for about 10 minutes everyday. In 2 weeks you will start losing fat massively. I am not gona go into details about it, but just try it and give it 2-3 weeks and it will start showing result! If you cant do whole 10 minutes right away, stop, take a breather and finish it, take a few breathers if needed. Make sure to pick up your knees to your belt high. good luck!

[cardioking]

[QUOTE=sparty3;337565971]You should do push ups and other exercises of that sort when you cant go to the gym. Jumping Jax lol, anything that burns fat. Just because you cant make it to gym that day doesn't mean that you cant work out at all. QUOTE]

I plan on doing cardio on atleast 3 days that I can't go to the gym and a little on the days that I go to the gym..... so thats 5-6 days of exercise.

[cardioking]

Any suggestions? How can I incorporate daily strength training at home with gym workouts without over training? or is it pretty much impossilble to overtrain using bodyweight exercises daily alongside weight training in a gym 2-3 days a week?

[1HourMuscles]

Search google for 'workouts at home'. There should be lots of free workouts that you can download.

From these workouts you will then have to do some figuring out.
On the days that you workout at home, choose the exercises which you think would give you the biggest gains from the downloaded workouts. From these chosen exercises, you should then decide whether it is your upper or lower body you want to work out at home.

As a suggestion, I would say that if you have some simple weights at home, concentrate on your upper body at home and then use the gyms equipemtn for the lower body exercises which would be harder to complete at home.

Originally Posted by cardioking

Any suggestions? How can I incorporate daily strength training at home with gym workouts without over training? or is it pretty much impossilble to overtrain using bodyweight exercises daily alongside weight training in a gym 2-3 days a week?