Home Gym + Timing Between Reps Issue

[apogee]

After 2 years at the gym, I no longer have time or patients waiting until other finish up their reps on the benches / barbells / dumbless etc..

I decided to buy a professional bench, a long barbell, and 2 dumbells with those screws and screw on weight plates.

The only problem is: My trainer always told me to wait 1.5 minutes between reps, but to unscrew and rescrew 2 sides of the barbell / 4 sides of the dumbells takes about 3 - 5 minutes.

I am just wondering if waiting exactly 1.5 minutes is that significant ? or 4 - 5 minutes is ok..

P.S. i do feel good, and I feel my muscles sore, and I do get good workouts.

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Karky]

it takes that long to change the weights? 3 is no prob, 5 is a bit much in my book. it depends on goals. want max strenght, go with 2-3 min between sets

And by "reps" i suppose you mean "sets"

 

[(Silent)]

The amount of time used in a rest period should be based on your goals.

By professional do you mean Olympic? I have never locked in place any of my weight plates on my Olympic barbell. Mainly for the fact I lift alone and need an out if I get stuck. And, because of the many groves where the weights fit its actually pretty difficult to mistakenly have a weight fall off. It not only saves me time from having to unscrew it and all. It also, as I stated, helps a lot when working out alone.

4-5 minutes is quite excessive. I'm not sure what kind of "screw" system your bench uses. But, I would suggest you either A: don't use them at all. Or B: go get yourself some clamps to use in the screws place.

 

[theleip]

Yeah I really suggest getting yourself some slide on clamps. In general I don't like home gymers working without some sort of close system on the weights. Spending a few bucks on some clamps can save you a lot of time.

incase your not aware what we are talking about...

 

[Danger_Dave]

After 2 years at the gym, I no longer have time or patients waiting until other finish up their reps on the benches / barbells / dumbless etc..

I decided to buy a professional bench, a long barbell, and 2 dumbells with those screws and screw on weight plates.

The only problem is: My trainer always told me to wait 1.5 minutes between reps, but to unscrew and rescrew 2 sides of the barbell / 4 sides of the dumbells takes about 3 - 5 minutes.

I am just wondering if waiting exactly 1.5 minutes is that significant ? or 4 - 5 minutes is ok..

P.S. i do feel good, and I feel my muscles sore, and I do get good workouts.

Thanks,
Peter

Uhh... Two questions that may not ahve been asked. Why would you need to change the weight between sets? unless you're doing 10 8 6 or something just keep the weight the same. I don't know if everyone will agree or not. I mean I sometimes add on a bit more weight at the end if I tihnk I can handle it too.

But I use olympic barbells and dumbbells. Do you have standard 1 inch diameter barbell? I'd recommend against it.