How long is your

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panman79

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average workout?

Tell wether you are doing upperbody or legs and how long you punish them.


All my workouts tend to last 45 min. I heard cortisol levels go up too much after that and start defeating muscle. I think I'm gonna start lifting longer though. I just don't feel like 45 min is enough even though I take short rests between sets.
 
45-55 minutes roughly for me :)
 
the length of one workout VHS or two smaller ones.....30 or 45 minutes.......same for bike, but every few weeks i increase time
 
I hit it for no less than 2-3 hrs per day, EVERY DAY!!!
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Just playin, I tend to keep workouts around 1hr. I spend a large portion of that hour focusing on compound movements (Squat, Deads, Presses)



DM
 
shoot, i use to train for 2 hours a day when i first started. 5-6 days a week.

ppl would tell me i had to hit the muscle from all angles. so there i was doing 4-5 exercises for each bodypart. total waste, i ended up quitting for almost a year. :(
 
About 3 years ago or so, when I first got into working out, my workouts would be at least 2 hours long. I would stretch, run, use every machine in the place, run again and stretch. Those were the days when ignorance was bliss.
 
upper body: 45 minutes. cardio: 20-40 minutes

my friend spends about an hour and 15 minutes in the gym when doing weights. he's small and ripped.
 
McCarley said:
About 3 years ago or so, when I first got into working out, my workouts would be at least 2 hours long. I would stretch, run, use every machine in the place, run again and stretch. Those were the days when ignorance was bliss.
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lol, that's what i'm doing now!!! what's wrong with that? but when i go to the gym, i train my lower body(legs,etc..) for one day and my upper body(chest, arms, etc..) for the next day so my muscle wont be overworked, but each day i spend at least 2 hours in the gym. I also play basketball at night around 5-6 times a week. is this bad? I'm not trying to be buff, just cut, so i dont lift heavy weights.
 
It depends on what your doing specifically. I really had no idea what I was doing, so I thought the more I did the better off I'd be. I would do things much different now. I would not do cardio before my workout, or stretch... I would split up my workout to movements rather than - hit every machine as hard as I could. So essencially it would be a different workout.
 
My Thoughts...

After reading the posts, here are my two cents:

1. The goal of ANY exercise program should be to do the least amount of work for the maximum amount of results. Exercising with moderate intensity for longer than an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes makes it very difficult to recover. And as you know, muscle isn't built in the gym...it's built in the bed (sleep). Exercise smarter, not longer.

2. Our body adapts to the exact stimulus that it receives. So if you regularly exercise for two hours, what's going to happen when you can't do that any longer? That's right, your body will become deconditioned.

3. Whatupdoc mentioned that he wanted to get cut, not big, so he isn't lifting heavy weights. Getting cut comes from a low body fat percentage (around 7% bodyfat for men) and well developed muscle mass. The BEST way to develop muscle mass is to lift heavy weights, not light weights. The whole light weight, high reps for toning is a TOTAL MYTH.

Heath
 
Heath,

Just in response to the last part, about high reps, light weight, and being a myth.
That may be true, but I did want to clarify that changing the intensity of your workout, especially every couple weeks, and doing more reps and sets, with less weight, is a good way to shock muscles into growth. The particular combo of high reps & sets is good for training for endurance, and research I've read suggests it emphasizes a different type of muscle fiber.

This type of workout, used occassionly in opposition to heavy weight, lower rep, low set workouts (strength training), might give you better gains, and since it's bound to get your heart pumping, is almost a light cardio routine.

I could see that causing some weight loss, lean mass gain, thus giving the appearance of a more toned look.
 
I do about an hour. A little bit of rest between sets, its more of lift weights, then 30 push ups, 45 crunches, then rest. So im working my body a little harder.
 
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