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Article Title: How Much Time For Fitness? Intensity Trumps

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Author: Marty Gallagher

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What’s the minimum weekly time investment you can slide by with

and still make gains? I would say six cumulative hours. Six

times sixty is 360 minutes and this amount of time would allow

for three 60-minute weight training sessions and six 30-minute

cardio sessions per week. Assuming you had a serious dietary

effort in place, assuming the training was smart, primitive and

intense, assuming you were a relatively untrained individual

(experienced athletes would find six cumulative hours weekly a

plausible maintenance regimen) I could about guarantee that you

would make gains with a six hour weekly time investment.

At some point, as with every training program, the gains would

cease and you would have to reshuffle the deck BUT the answer

to fixing the stagnation might not lie in extending or

increasing the amount of time devoted to fitness. Just because

gains cease using a six hour regimen does not automatically

mean the solution is to train more - the remedy could be to

train smarter (change the routine) or harder (generate more

intensity) within the allotted six hour timeframe. Folks who

train real hard and real intense and don’t mess around don’t

need a lot of gym time. In my opinion, when it comes to

triggering progressive resistance gains, intensity trumps

everything! By training super hard we don’t have to spend hours

in the gym.

Home training can reduce the amount of time needed to mount a

serious effort even further by eliminating travel time. The

commute to and from the commercial fitness establishment takes

time and gas. Even when I belonged to clubs and gyms, I always

had a flat bench, a set of weights and some adjustable

dumbbells lying around at home. Those pressed for time who

train at home can slip in sets of curls or overhead presses,

shrugs or bent over rows, calf raises or lateral raises, all

while discharging household duties. You would be amazed how

many sets of presses or curls or tricep presses a person can

get in between yard work, dishes, vacuuming, straightening up

or watching the news. I used to make myself do a set to failure

in a particular exercise while watching football on TV. I might

pick the standing overhead press with a set of 70’s.

Every time I got up for any reason during the football game I

would walk to the laundry room and rep to failure using the

solid dumbbells. Walk into the room, clean them to my shoulders

and ram them overhead as many times as possible. Then continue

on with whatever it was I was doing; it took less than a minute

to do the actual set itself. I figured since I was being a couch

potato, the least I could do is every time I got up to get

something to eat, use the bathroom or stretch my legs, I might

as well do something constructive, so I’d walk to the laundry

room clean and press the dumbbells to failure, maybe 12-15

reps. Then I’d forget all about it and go right back to what I

was doing.

One afternoon I “slipped in” something like 22 sets to failure.

Kinda cool. Kinda felt right. I would rotate exercises and it

became sort of famous and I’d have a lot of guys drop over to

watch the games and they’d all wanna get in on the action at

whatever level they were at. It got humorous late in the second

game after everyone had been drinking beer. I moved away and

that ended this bizarre practice but was a time when at every

commercial the boys would stampede to the laundry room and

everyone would grab a set from the dumbbell racks adjacent to

the giant screen TV in the knotty-pine rec room. Beer and

barbells. No one ever got hurt but a lot of guys got so sore

that they had to call into work on Monday sick.

If you’ve got six hours a week to spare you can establish a

fitness toehold. From a toehold comes a foothold and soon a leg

up. Do I suggest drinking booze and doing countless sets of

weight training exercises? No, that would be imprudent and

inappropriate: three weight training sessions, six cardio

sessions, tight diet and BAM! Within 21-days you’re looking

significantly better: at the end of six weeks people are

commenting on how totally transformed you are. Hard work pays

off. Better one hour intense than six hours lackadaisical. If

you have the time we have various training and dietary

templates to sort through. If you can find the time we can

provide the game plan.

About The Author: Marty Gallagher is a former fitness columnist

for washingtonpost.com. Marty's work has been featured in

magazines such as Muscle & Fitness, Muscle Media, and

Powerlifting USA. His website, http://www.martygallagher.com,

assimilates years of accumulated knowledge from the athletic

elite and makes them available to the common person.

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