I need 108 hours in the gym!!! Advice would be helpful

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spicypumpkin

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So, I just started the semester at school. Things were running smoothly until an online class made me so mad I dropped it. (I don't think I can ever handle trying to deal with a poorly conducted online class again, too much stress). This left me without enough units.

Fortunately, I'm taking a weight training class that allows you to choose how many units you earn, but it's based on how many hours you clock in the gym. I need to earn 2 units in it to be considered full time, but that means I need to clock 108 hours in the next 63 days of class. That comes out to about 1.7 hours per day or 1 hour and 43 minutes after rounding up. So that's four days a week, and give or take an hour and 45 minutes of working out. Forgot to mention: I'm also taking a swimming class that lasts about an hour two days a week.

What kind of workout program can I coordinate around this time requirement? I've never really lifted for longer than 45 minutes. They have treadmills and other cardio things in the gym so I don't have to lift constantly.

I'm not really sure what to do at this point. Is there a way that I can productively use up this time each day? Or will it result in overtraining? If someone could help me come up with a workout schedule, that would be great.
 
its a lil over an hour and a half a day-

go there in the morning and do your makeup! hahahahha:yelrotflmao:

or you could always lift weights and do cardio.

you run no risk of overtraining!

shoot, you may even break a sweat!

hahahaha

I am doing pretty good at not harrassing you eh!

you know you love me

or, you could walk around behind all the real athletes and rack their weights ;)

ok, I will stop now.

XO
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I would spend your 45 minutes resistance training like you have done in the past.
Then I'd spend 45 minutes on the treadmill at a "quick walk" pace, a fat burn pace if you will. This is easy, you can read a book, magazine, or watch tv (if your gym has them), while you are doing it and the time will fly by.
As for the the last 15 minutes or so, you could easily spend stretching, split between stretching before your resistance workout, after your resistance workout and at the very end after your cardio workout.

Best of luck.
 
spicypumpkin said:
I need to earn 2 units in it to be considered full time, but that means I need to clock 108 hours in the next 63 days of class.
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How down to earth is your teacher? If you explain this dilema and that if you aren't full time you will not have the benefits of a full time student (HEALTH INSURANCE) and that it is impossible to log this many hours but you will do as much as it takes and if he/she says you need all 108 you will do it but you would prefer less as you have more important things to focus your studies on.
 
The procedure is pretty cut and dry. You come in, sign in with whatever instructor happens to be watching the room at that time, do your workout and then sign out. The issue is, in the mornings, they don't have it open for an hour and 45 minutes, just an hour and 15 minutes. So I'll have to come in later in the day.
 
Do a good 15 min warm up. Spend your hour working out taking longer rest times. This would also be a good time to add in some pre-hab stuff like rotator cuffs, mobility stuff, hip flexor stuff, etc. has a ton of articles that could keep you busy for hours with mobility and prehab exercises.

Then come back in the evening for your 15-20 min of rowing or other form of cardio. Heck, you could use that to do 15 min worth of 'beach vanity' stuff.
 
Today went pretty well. and I got an idea of what it's like to spend an hour and a half in the gym. I did a lot of stretching and resting. It was kind of weird getting back to the lifting. I haven't lost all of my strength and I have, in fact, gained some strength on the shoulder exercises. I attribute this to all of the swimming I've been doing.

I have swimming two days out of the week which are also the days the gym is open extra early. I can do weights, swimming then another half an hour of light cardio after the swimming. I might even be able to go some evenings and try to do something.

I just want to make sure, is this much physical activity bad for me in any way? I don't want to overdo it.
 
LeiYunFat said:
Come in, sign in, go to class, come back, work out, sign out. The guy watching the room doesn't give a ****.
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I don't think I'd have the heart to do that. It would eat me up inside.

I want to do this the honest way and end up in fantastically good shape because of it.
 
No this much activity isn't going to hurt you. Stick to a routine, any extra time spend on extra cardio or the "beach vanity" stuff like Evo said. The thing you have to watch is your nutrition. Make sure you are consuming a lot of extra water to make up for all the sweating! And make sure you aren't putting yourself into such a calorie deficit that you are actually in starvation mode. Just keep eating the right food, adjusting calorie intake with the amount of exercise and you'll be perfectly fine, as a matter of fact you'll feel great!

Good Luck :)

Sniped
 
The purpose of the gym is there to promote health and fitness. If you can do that in 30 min a day, and do it better than anyone else, the purpose has been fulfilled. Or not. Spend your time how you want.
 
LeiYunFat said:
Come in, sign in, go to class, come back, work out, sign out. The guy watching the room doesn't give a ****.
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Exactly what i was tryna say. You can do 30 minutes and log 3 hours and no one would know. I guarantee this is what most people do anyway and they're not gonna be arsed keeping track of everyone, so it's easy to get away with. You don't sound very cheat savvy.
 
sniped77 said:
No this much activity isn't going to hurt you. Stick to a routine, any extra time spend on extra cardio or the "beach vanity" stuff like Evo said. The thing you have to watch is your nutrition. Make sure you are consuming a lot of extra water to make up for all the sweating! And make sure you aren't putting yourself into such a calorie deficit that you are actually in starvation mode. Just keep eating the right food, adjusting calorie intake with the amount of exercise and you'll be perfectly fine, as a matter of fact you'll feel great!

Good Luck :)

Sniped
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Thanks so much,

Yes I definitely need to remember the water intake. I was cramping up today and I'm sure it's because I'm dehydrated. I'm going to make a conscious decision to change that. I think this will be a fun challenge and I'm looking forward to it.

After a couple of weeks I'll post how I'm keeping up with the workload.
 
The way I see it, stream, it isn't even cheating. As long as you fulfill the function of the class, what's the big deal? It's like skipping class when you already know the material. Come to take the test, ace it, move on. Anything else is a waste of time.
 
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