How long do your workouts typically last?

[hewey Grant]

Am curious to see how long your guys workouts usually last. I go on 5 days a week and each muscle is worked twice a week. I usually spend 2 hours in the gym, some people say this is too much but I feel fine. Any experts opinions?

 

[Meathead74]

45 minutes to an hour...thats all for me.

Meathead

 

[shredalean]

Depends on your goals bro! For maximum hypertrophy I think you should do 3 sets of an exercise 9-12 reps 70-80% of 1rep max, with 60-90seconds of rest between sets. Now everyone has different opinions so this is not gold! But do the math 5 days a week muscle group a day for 4-5 different exercises with about 1.5 minute rest in between, you should be out of the gym in 45-1hour. 10 hrs a week would be considered overkill for ME, becuase I don't like resting too much between sets. but hey if you like your gym that much to hang out two hours a day, then be my guest. And this is fitness there are many different opinions, and many are valid.

 

[buffness]

Usually between 30-45min...don't really need more than that.

 

[oldtimer]

Dude if you are going to the gym for two hours and training...several things could be occuring...for starters if you are getting results doing this you are either on something or have damn good genetics...if you are going to the gym and not accomplishing anything then your fucking around to much...man when I workout after an hour i am warn out...i bust my ass...as far as science goes after an hour of any type of exercise cortisol levels start to rise and testosterone levels start to decrease...if you are a workoutaholic then you need to break up your sessions...morning and evening workouts...each workout should start out at 30 minutes and work your way up to 2 45 minute workouts a day...also you need to circuit this even due to the fact that you could become overtrained as i said...all this points to my first comment...if you are growing then....WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON?

Well said BioAS. One minor correction, it actually takes 45 mins average before your body gives up..

-OT

 

[hewey Grant]

I just turned twenty and have only trained seriously for a little over two years. In those two years I have overtrained alot I bet. I remember when I first started I would train for three hours a day. I finally got beat down and took it down to two and this has always worked. I realize I do try to lift heavy weight so there is more of a rest period. I am going to try and correct this and go to a one minute rest period. I began to ponder on this when jay culter in muscular development said he belived that no training session should last longer than one hour. I've heard this alot and decided maybe I should give it a shot.

 

[dumbbellpress]

I am probably going to get flamed but here goes. I train calves and abs twice a week. All other BP's I train on a 4 day split - Day 1 Chest/Bis Day 2 - lats/tris
Day 3 legs Day 4 delts/traps

I workout 5 times per week so I guess I train each BP approximately every 6 days.

If you are training balls to the wall Yates style with every set to total failure (LOL like I do) then there is no way you could recover in time for a BP to be worked twice per week. No way. Yates trained each BP every 6 to 7 days and......I think he must have been doing something right. He sure won a bunch of Olympias. Even more impressive when you consider Yates was all natural.

dumbbellpress Future Husband of Jennifer Love Hewitt Cowboys 2004 Super Bowl Champs

 

[Peace Division]

I used to workout 1.5-2 hrs. a day 3-4 days a week when I first started. Slowly I started to hate working out. I saw minimal gains and I gave up. Then I started researching some more (instead of going with what Arnold says) and now I workout 45 min. a day, 4-5 days/week. I've made great gains and look forward to going to the gym everyday. Peace.

PS BioAS is right, www.t-mag.com has some great articles.

 

[Phreezer]

If you are training balls to the wall Yates style with every set to total failure (LOL like I do)

YOu go to failure every workout?

I think he must have been doing something right. He sure won a bunch of Olympias. Even more impressive when you consider Yates was all natural.

You're kidding right??? Dorian Was "natural"?

 

[BigRipFreaky]

Dorian natural??????? Okkkkkkkkkk then......

BigRipFreaky

 

[Hogg]

Dorian natural??????? Okkkkkkkkkk then......

BigRipFreaky

Not to mention that the guy seemed to be hashed of working class cockney stock and knew as much about science as a man who shovels shit for a living.

 

[Freddy]

Mine last 1 hour to 1.5 hours.

Yes, your test level declines after 45 minutes, but that occures whether or not you continue training. So it doesn't matter if you leave or not after that point.

A lot of good programs just plain need at least an hour, if you are taking adequate brakes. The 5x5, JS's old program, Metal Militia, etc.

However, some great programs can be busted out in 45 minutes or less, like HST or WSB (however, my WSB program takes 1.5 hours).

Don't be too concerned with how long a program takes you. As long as its a good program, and your rest periods between sets are 1-5 minutes (unless otherwise noted) you are totally fine. Its really not a big issue at all.

 

[Green Darter]

Am curious to see how long your guys workouts usually last. I go on 5 days a week and each muscle is worked twice a week. I usually spend 2 hours in the gym, some people say this is too much but I feel fine. Any experts opinions?

Like some have already said everyone is different but for me 5 days aweek was major overtraining and 2 hours was brutal.I wasnt making any real gains not like I should have for the weight I was using(using it correct form).
A guy I met who was huge told me to train 3 days aweek max NEVER consecutive days(best recup).I than went to working out ONLY Mon-Wed-Fri
2 bodyparts every workout 45 to 90 seconds max between sets intense sets but not many.I never looked back it has been gain after gain.This guy now works out only 2 days aweek but that I cant do.I wish i could.I never spend more than 1 hour in the gym average is 45 minutes.
Many here workout 5 or more days aweek so my method isnt written in stone but it worked great for me.Not to mention no more elbow pain.
I do think working each bodypart twice aweek is terrible for recup.I dont have a light/heavy day all my workouts are as heavy as I can go 7 to 10 reps(12 for legs}more or less ofcourse and I warm up 2 sets 20 to 30 reps than 1 set 15 reps than I begin as heavy as I can go.
Darter

 

[dumbbellpress]

Yeah Phreezer. Yates wrote a couple articles in Muscle and Fitness in which he told young people to stay away from steroids because they were dangerous. For himto actually use steroids would have been hypocritical. Yates would never do something like that.

dumbbellpress Future Husband of Jennifer Love Hewitt Cowboys 2004 Super Bowl Champs

 

[Southernjuice]

45min-1hr......that's it. Balls to da walls...puke in da floor.

 

[Bob Smith]

When I was doing HST at 3x/wk, I averaged about 35-50 minutes per workout. I adjusted it to 6x/wk (splitting body in half) and the workouts were anywhere from 15-30 minutes, not including warmup. Best progress Ive made on any program.

 

[Green Darter]

I used to workout 1.5-2 hrs. a day 3-4 days a week when I first started. Slowly I started to hate working out. I saw minimal gains and I gave up. Then I started researching some more (instead of going with what Arnold says) and now I workout 45 min. a day, 4-5 days/week. I've made great gains and look forward to going to the gym everyday. Peace.

PS BioAS is right, www.t-mag.com has some great articles.

Thats exactly what happened to me I began to get sick of working out,hated it,had no drive to do it,made little gains which was unreal because I have good genetics so that in itself was a nightmare.
Than I cut back to 3 days aweek the most .2 bodyparts per workout.Never consecutive days and never looked back its been great gains since.
Not to mention the extra time you now have for other things.
Darter

 

[Peace Division]

Thats exactly what happened to me I began to get sick of working out,hated it,had no drive to do it,made little gains which was unreal because I have good genetics so that in itself was a nightmare.
Than I cut back to 3 days aweek the most .2 bodyparts per workout.Never consecutive days and never looked back its been great gains since.
Not to mention the extra time you now have for other things.
Darter

It's amazing that sometimes less IS more. Peace.

 

[hardcore210]

If I'm not done in 1hr - 1hr 15min, including days I train abs & calves, then I just leave. If your workouts are taking 2hrs +, then you're spending too much time talking or staring at girls.

HC210

 

[Chip Bronson]

i workout on a 3-way split, 3 day on - 1 day off. if i'm getting too tired and feel overtrained i do 3 on - 1 off - 2 on - 1 off for a little extra rest.

workouts last for about 45 minutes as i only rest about 60-90 seconds (except squats and deadlifts) between sets. in the 80's i trained for 1.5-2 hours and made no improvements for years on that schedule. as bioas pointed out, you can thank the shitty muscle mags of the day and their endless fountain of training misinformation for that...