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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Jaarsma
Jaarsma
Posts: 1
Joined: 2002/10/02
Canada
2002/10/17, 07:20 PM
I am following a Free Trainers program and am quite impressed with it. There are a number of different exercises that target most of the muscles. However, one day of the week yhere is 43 sets of exercises. This takes me well over 1 1/2hours. I think this is too long of a workout to be effective. I have heard and researched that you should go hard and at a high intensity but for not longer than 1 hour because the testosterone level dies and the workout is no longer effective. Any comments or differing opinions?
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bb1fit
bb1fit
Posts: 11,105
Joined: 2001/06/30
United States
2002/10/17, 09:17 PM
Well, I totally agree with you. You may think about splitting that workout up. I prefer a 45min. to 1 hr. workout max. For the reasons you say are correct, and just plain old intensity levels are hard to keep up for that length of time.