Fascinating Article

[Oxidane]

How much time do you really need to spend lifting weights to get a great body and be in great shape?

What if I said only 3 minutes a day, 3 times a week, for a TOTAL of 9 minutes A WEEK! (Are you scratching your head yet or calling me names?)

I am willing to bet money that you are spending a lot more than 9 minutes a week on weight lifting and I am also willing to bet you are not totally happy with your results.

Before totally labeling me crazy, let me explain.

Let's take a visit to the gym for a moment, and join up with yourself in a workout. Today is "chest day" for your workout.

Let's assume that for each exercise, you perform the standard norm of 10 repetitions per set. So, if you do a bench press, you probably do 10 reps.

That, friend, amounts to about 10 seconds of time that you are actually physically moving the weight.

Next time you are in the gym, time yourself and see how long it takes to perform a set of 10 reps. (Please do not look at your watch while doing the exercise!)

Let me save you the time--it takes 10 seconds. If you perform 3 sets, which most people do, you are now up to 30 seconds (3x10) of actual lifting movement.

If you do 3 exercises for each muscle group (for the chest we can do bench press, incline dumbbell press, and dips) you are now only up to 90 seconds, or 1 1/2 minutes.

So far, so good?

Let's assume you do two muscle groups per workout (let's say chest and back). You have doubled your 1 1/2 minutes to 3 minutes. 1 1/2 minutes spent on chest ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY LIFTING THE WEIGHTS and 1 1/2 minutes spent working out your back, ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY LIFTING THE WEIGHTS.

Total time=3 minutes.

All of the other time you are spending can be put into one of these other categories:

1. RESTING BETWEEN SETS

2. WASTED TIME

Hopefully, most of the time that you are not actually lifting is spent in category #1, rest.

Waiting between sets, walking around a bit, getting a drink of water. But this should only amount to 1-2 minutes between sets.

[HOUSTON TEXAN]

I wouldn't call that fascinating but it is interesting.

[swanso5]

i'm not sure what you posted this for...do you have any thoughts on it, questions etc?

[Oxidane]

Taughts... It's interesting.. xD

[precise89]

Yeah... Interesting, not FASCINATING