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fitness How long should you workout each day?
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This general fitness thread covers all aspects of fitness, including workouts, nutrition, wellness tips, lifestyle changes, and fitness advice.
Aufscherin
Junior Member
Experts tell us that all we need to stay fit is 15 minutes of exercise per day, and this what I get 4-5 times a week.
It really depends on your goals, whether or not you're training to be an elite athlete or bodybuilder, or just want to maintain your current weight, provided you don't change your diet.
I would say 15-25 minutes a day of cardio or walking is enough to maintain your weight if nothing else changes and you already have a decent active lifestyle of taking more than 1500 steps per day.
But if you want to lose weight and add muscle, I would probably advise 45 minutes to 1 hour in the gym with proper resting for your goals. For example, if you want to be a powerlifter, you'll want to bench 3 sets of 3 reps, and need to rest a lot longer between sets than if you're benching 4-5 sets of 10-15 reps. In both cases, the time you bench might work out to be the same with rest time + bench time. However, the powerlifting way you're going to get much stronger, if you increase caloric intake, than bigger and leaner, as powerlifting takes a toll on your CNS and requires a heavy intake to continue strength gains.
When I was bodybuilding, it was no less than 2 hours in the gym, sometimes up to 3. I'd do up to 5 sets on a compound and 3-4 on a "secondary compound". Then, I would move on to do 2-3 sets hitting the same muscle once or twice in different isolation variations. Taking the bench as an example, I would do 5 sets on the traditional flat bench, and then move the bar to the floor, take some weight off, and do floor bench presses where the backs of your arms touch the floor before you press back up, reducing the movement and stretch to hit the triceps harder, but still somewhat being a compound exercise.
Now, I'm at about 1 hour in the gym, but more of a jail-style/HIIT routine of my bodybuilding routine by resting for 30 seconds to 1 1/2 minutes instead of 1 1/2 minutes to 3 minutes between sets. And, I've added cardio to get the fat off, which I didn't do before: It was exercise and then eat 4-6 cheeseburgers, trying to maintain around 5000 calories a day to maintain the weight and also gain as much muscle as possible (though I did have times where I did a clean bulk, but it was much harder to eat that many calories in just chicken breast and salmon, and a lot more expensive).
The key is always listen to your body whenever you're working out. There are some people who can do 1 hour or more when they are working out. Their body can take it 100% without having any problems.
No matter what your workout goals are, pay attention to your body with how it adjusts to the drills. If you don't, it's how people get injured at the gym.
No matter what your workout goals are, pay attention to your body with how it adjusts to the drills. If you don't, it's how people get injured at the gym.
Definitely this too.
I didn't start at this point. I started with 30-45 minute sessions and built from there over the months and years.
This is also key to avoiding injuries. During my entire bodybuilding era, I only got injured a couple of times, and it was always shoulder impingement which I am prone to nonetheless.
I was stupid and forgot about this basic concept about 2 weeks ago and felt a strong pull of something other than a muscle during a stretch of my tricep, but continued through a shoulder workout, probably making it worse. Had I listened to my body then, and just skipped the workout to do cardio, I probably would've recovered in a couple of days. Working through it put me here, about 3 weeks later, scared that I might blow out my rotator cuff.
NatureFreak
Junior Member
The maximum workout time that is recommended everyday is an hour. Experts believe that if you over exact yourself in the gym it can eventually be counterproductive. So if you workout on a daily basis, 45 minutes to an hour is enough.
You just have to take things easy for now. If it's possible to stay off body workout/weight lifting of any kind until further notice. Do your cardio, you should be fine without having to worry about any injuries.
MidnightMuse
Junior Member
I think it depends on the types of exercises you want to do.
15–30 minutes of cardio 3–5 times a week should be good.
For lifting, forty to sixty minutes, two to four days a week should be good. I think that is enough time to do three sets of eight to 12 reps of each exercise.
However, if you are going for a certain body type/look or have serious goals like losing weight, you might have to bump up the intensity and frequency of your training.
15–30 minutes of cardio 3–5 times a week should be good.
For lifting, forty to sixty minutes, two to four days a week should be good. I think that is enough time to do three sets of eight to 12 reps of each exercise.
However, if you are going for a certain body type/look or have serious goals like losing weight, you might have to bump up the intensity and frequency of your training.
This is very correct. It's like those guys who are in UFC. When they go for a training camp in preparation for a UFC fight, they have a very intensive training in order to be ready for what they are planning.
The good thing about them is that their body is already used to the rigorous training, so they can be able to keep up with it.
