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Posted by: BordrGuy108

I just started working out again and my routines are fairly short, they usually only take me around 45 minutes to an hour totaly a day. I usually only work 1-2 muscle groups and do about 4-5 exercises with 3 sets each and 6-8 reps per set. Is this long enough to be working out and actually gaining mass? I see some people at the gym for 2+ hours. I just want to make sure I'm working out long enough to gain mass.


Posted by: Prince

I never train longer than one hour, anyone that trains for 2+ hours is either heavily juicing or just plain stupid.


Posted by: aztecwolf

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Originally posted by Robert DiMaggio
I never train longer than one hour, anyone that trains for 2+ hours is either heavily juicing or just plain stupid.
basically the same thing in my opinion
i usually take an hour to hour 15 including warmup and cool down
going any longer means a) i'm trying to do to much, or b) i'm taking to long between lifts( ie being lazy or a bit too social)


Posted by: BordrGuy108

Ok cool. Thanks for both of your posts.


Posted by: aztecwolf

my total lifting time is about 50 min to an hour (from first lift to last struggling lift), i used to have a problem with overtraining, not because i really thought i could get a lot better results, but it just felt so dang good i didn't really want to stop, but i have since learned to just go even harder but for a shorter length of time


Posted by: Mudge

I did my entire calf and chest workout in about 35 minutes today.


Posted by: kvyd

i find alot of my workouts dont take much over 30-45


Posted by: LAM

Quote:
Originally posted by Robert DiMaggio
I never train longer than one hour, anyone that trains for 2+ hours is either heavily juicing or just plain stupid.
I went to the gym this morning to do the first half of back. saw some regulars in the back already on chest. I did a fifteen minute warm-up on the treadmill then my back workout then 30 minutes on the treadmill. when I left they were STILL training chest ! lol

some people just don't get it...


Posted by: Mudge

I see the "bench press posse" doing bench 3 times a week.


Posted by: aztecwolf

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Originally posted by LAM
I went to the gym this morning to do the first half of back. saw some regulars in the back already on chest. I did a fifteen minute warm-up on the treadmill then my back workout then 30 minutes on the treadmill. when I left they were STILL training chest ! lol

some people just don't get it...
at least they were probably on a different machine, like when you see guys on the bench press for like an hour and 15 minutes
it can be even worse then that, two days ago i saw i guy on his cell phone when i did my first set of pullups, and when my last rep of dips was over, approx. 53 minutes later, he was sitting in the same spot with his cell phone, (i just wanted to go up to him and say "dude, get out of my gym") lucky for me he was sitting at one of the smith machines the entire time so he wasn't in my way


Posted by: Pierzin

I'm usually done in an hour also.

Whether I have accomplished everything I wanted in that time or not, my body says stop!

I once told a guy at my work that he overtrained. He wouldn't listen. I said, hey ask any trainer in town, any of them, working out everyday of the week is too much.
I think I offended him, cause he said he was gonna keep doin it.
I just shrugged my shoulders.


Posted by: plouffe

I just go balls out for 35 minutes to 50 at the most depending on what I'm working. While doing arms sometimes I'll hit triceps, sit down have shake, then hit triceps if I feel the workout is getting to long.


Posted by: JerseyDevil

My workouts are 45 minutes to 60 minutes in length. If I'm not done at say the 70 minute mark, I stop anyway.


Posted by: stencil

Mine are 45-60 minutes tops as well. Of course, sometimes there's the annoying guy curling in the squat rack or doing 1000 sets on the bench so I have to wait a while making my time at the gym a bit longer...


Posted by: CowPimp

My warmup takes about 20 minutes, which inlcudes jumping jacks, stretching my entire body out, and a warmup set for each muscle I'm doing. Lifting take another 40 minutes usually. I also do a 10 minute ab workout after every lifting session. My cool down, which is basically stretching the muscles I worked that day, is another 5 minutes. My workouts usually take no longer than the sum of these times, which is an hour and 15 minutes.



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