Fitness Gurus/Influencers Claiming only need work-out 20minutes 3X Week

[theraskal]

LIES! WarmUps & Non-Working Pre-Sets can eat up 30 minutes easily! Then there's at least 45minutes cardio on off days. Anything Less and it's HuskyFatsville!

[theraskal]

also there's the necessary "active recovery" days

[Dave22reborn]

Which YouTuber is recommending this???

[theraskal]

^Magazines, Youtube, Websites.....don't pretend we have ALL Heard it!

[Robmnrd]

20 minutes 3x/week technically is enough to be a not-fat-piece-of-chit if you have your diet in order.

And if the person they are talking to hasn't had a day where they did more than 1000 steps total in the last 12 years, then yeah... they probably will "Get in the best shape of their life!" by doing some stupid fukking chit for 20 minutes three times per week.

They're not actually talking to anyone with a goal that requires genuine work and dedication. They're talking to the dregs who don't lift anything at all whatsoever other than their spoons and forks.

[PhiloSquid]

20 minutes 3x a week would be a Huge improvement for most people.

[Allenlverson]

day 1: 10 min push /w 10 min pull

day 2: 20 min legs

day 3: 20 min cardio


this is my routine before basketball practice

[Achilles87]

You could easily get an above average physique with a consistent 20 minutes done 3x a week.

[MetroBrah]

20 minutes 3x a week would be a Huge improvement for most people.

You could easily get an above average physique with a consistent 20 minutes done 3x a week.

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It's really not that bad. If you aren't chitchatting on phone and minimize rest periods, it's enough to grow.

[AVOJAMACADA]

Brb not far off from what Dorian yates (5 × mr olympia) did.

20 mins of good reps to true fail, beats 2 hours of half assed gym time with 2 mins of youtube in beetween sets like 90% of people i see.

[GHOSTEDMAYNE]

LIES! WarmUps & Non-Working Pre-Sets can eat up 30 minutes easily! Then there's at least 45minutes cardio on off days. Anything Less and it's HuskyFatsville!

Just depends on your genetics. Half an hour works for me.

[MustardTiger17]

Only listen to Mike Mentzer and Lee Priest nowadays tbh

[BRANDERSS]

I could probably go in do one set of one excersize and have a better pump than the random idiots in a public gym.

[frankdtank20]

If you do balls to the wall HIIT with kettlebells for 20 minutes 3 times a week you can at least maintain decent fitness or improve it if you're a bit out of shape. If you do burpees for 20 minutes with as little rest as your lungs will allow that's a hell of a workout. Or heavy kettlebell swings and snatches for 20 minutes with short rests.

Do one of the Insanity Workout "warmups" (about 12 minutes) with a 40 lb weight vest on. I do that when pressed for time. With the weigh vest it can be brutal, depending on your effort.

Grab 20-30 lb dumbbells and do sets of jumping squats, 12-15 reps for a set. Jump as high as you can for every rep. Take 60 seconds rest in between sets. I bet ya can't make it to 20 minutes.

These won't get you swole, but surprisingly well conditioned. And 20 minutes never includes warmup or stretch.

[guest89]

Sound about right to me. The PHD nerds are discovering that as little as 1 or 2 'hard' sets on a muscle per week is enough to not only maintain muscle mass. But also continuously make progress.

Meaning if you want to do a push/pull/leg 3 day split. You can literally go into a gym. Pick a chest/back compound lift. Do them in the 6-12 rep range ramping the weight to 1 heavy set. On that set you go to failure. Maybe do a drop set or rest/pause if you like. Then you add in your secondary movement. Lateral raise, tricep extension, curl, etc. 1 set to failure for each. No need to warm up because they are warm from the primary exercise.


And that's it. 1 exercise for each muscle group per week. Just 1 hard set to failure for each muscle group per week. Its enough to not only maintain but actually grow muscle.





I work 12h shifts. Sometimes work late so in a pinch 14-15 hours. How do I maintain my workouts? Well on a really busy freaking week. I'm not opposed to walking into the gym. And doing like 2 or 3 sets of pullups to failure on each set. And that's it. My back/bicep work is done for the week. 8 or 9 minutes of effort/exercise for the entire week to maintain back/bis. When it comes to chest/tris/delts something as simple as doing 5 sets of 10 on an incline bench-press. Starting light and ramping to one heavy set to failure. Boom. Done with chest/delts/tris for the week. When it comes to legs I used to squat but now I'd just go in and do 5x10 on the leg press. Ramping up to one heavy top set.


No loss of muscle mass or strength from doing this. I actually like lifting so I never need to do it long term. But its just evidence to me that as little as 30-35 minutes total for an entire week/ 10-12 minutes three times per week is enough for me to maintain my muscle/stay looking good/stay strong.