Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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freedomfound
freedomfound
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Joined: 2005/05/13
United States
2005/06/06, 06:40 PM
I’m sure many of you have the same problem but would like to get some feedback on how it can be managed short of sleeping only two hours a day or something crazy. Currently I’m a single father of two children, I work full time 7am-4:30pm, and am going back to school to switch professions Tuesday and Thursday nights from 5pm – 9:40pm. Before I started going back to school back in January, I was able to go to the gym easily 5 nights a week, but now with everything going on I find it hard to go 3 or 4 times a week, and unfortunately like last week, studying for finals for this week, I wasn’t able to get there at all. I still try to eat healthy but my in and out seem to vary every week based on when I can make it to the gym. Does anyone have any ideas on how to balance it all while still keeping fit? I know that’s a loaded question so maybe the better one is: Does anyone have advice from personal experience or ideas on how to at least maintain what I’ve worked hard to get.
2005/06/07, 04:21 AM
yes....I had a similar problem so I decided to try something different....I average 1.5-2 days a week in terms of weight training ...doing full body cycle in 2 weeks(4-5 bodyparts in 14-16 days)...

the key is to focus on compound exercises...and to go very heavy...somethign whcih you may need to slowly work up to...that is training in the 1-5 or even more like 1-3 rep range for any given exercise....and doing each exercise to failure....as well as implementing drop sets, super sets, and other techniques.....if you have been training for a couple of years then this might be worth a try


the workouts don't need to be very long ....45-60 minutes...
as well as limiting number of sets which will be relatively small(4-8 depending on bodypart)

using this technique you can not only keep strength but you'll more than likely get progressively stronger....additionally this type of training gives your body plenty of time to recover so that overtraining more than likely won't be an issue....