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As a personal trainer I am curious how much of the table top crowd is in decent physical shape?
How Frequent, how intense, how much time?

I go about 5 times a week and do an hour of cardio and work a different muscle group each time. I still need to lose a significant amount of weight.

I spend about 2 hours once or twice a week in one..........cleaning it!

Over the summer I was going for 7 hours a week and walked about 2 miles a day. I did 10 minutes of sprinting followed by two hours of lifting and other assorted activities three times a week. I need to settle back into a schedule though, the start of the the schoolyear killed my previous one.

about 5 times a week

That is more often then i do and its my job. One pound of fat is 3500calories, and it probably took a long time to gain on the weight. But 5times a week you should see really fast results. Congrats

@vidicator
You work cleaning a gym? Or as weight room staff?


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@ShumaGorath

What are your goals if you are lifting for two hours? Seems a bit long?

Monday: 3 mile morning run, 1 hour afternoon core workout
Tuesday: Pushups/upper body for an hour
Wednesday: 10 miles on stationary bike in the morning, afternoon 1 hour core workout
Thursday: 5-7 mile run
Friday: 1 hour core/upper body circuit training
Saturday: 1 hour cardio

No i work at an apartment complex that has decided hmmm we are spending too much money so lets cut the cleaning lady and make the GROUNDSKEEPER clean the whole clubhouse which includes a gym with about 20 machines in it. I never realized how dirty gyms can be.

I will cross the street to avoid walking next to a gym, as long as the street isn't too wide, and only if my car is broke down.

kaidsin wrote:

about 5 times a week

That is more often then i do and its my job. One pound of fat is 3500calories, and it probably took a long time to gain on the weight. But 5times a week you should see really fast results. Congrats

@vidicator
You work cleaning a gym? Or as weight room staff?


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@ShumaGorath

What are your goals if you are lifting for two hours? Seems a bit long?

General fitness and it's a very varied routine. I also include core workouts like situps and machine work like rowing when I say lifting. It's less then half freeweights. I'm not too technical in my descriptions since I'm not too familiar with the parlance.

Monday: 3 mile morning run, 1 hour afternoon core workout
Tuesday: Pushups/upper body for an hour
Wednesday: 10 miles on stationary bike in the morning, afternoon 1 hour core workout
Thursday: 5-7 mile run
Friday: 1 hour core/upper body circuit training
Saturday: 1 hour cardio

looks like to put yourself through that with only 1 day of rest you have been training for some time.


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@ShumaGorath

Generally your body can only tolerate being under stress for about an hour until it stops being beneficial. But if you have been doing it for some time it may work for you. Also varying your workout is very harmful to muscle growth. Just fyi

I hate gyms.

Luckily I have a pool to swim laps in.

kaidsin wrote:

Monday: 3 mile morning run, 1 hour afternoon core workout
Tuesday: Pushups/upper body for an hour
Wednesday: 10 miles on stationary bike in the morning, afternoon 1 hour core workout
Thursday: 5-7 mile run
Friday: 1 hour core/upper body circuit training
Saturday: 1 hour cardio

looks like to put yourself through that with only 1 day of rest you have been training for some time.


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@ShumaGorath

Generally your body can only tolerate being under stress for about an hour until it stops being beneficial. But if you have been doing it for some time it may work for you. Also varying your workout is very harmful to muscle growth. Just fyi

How is varying the workout harmful? Working my legs harms my chest?

@ShumaGorath

It is alright to work different muscles during different work outs. But its not alright if you go in the gym and decide to do arms, and then just work out your arms with random exercises and random sets, reps, order, intensity weights, exercises. Your body takes a few workouts just to get proper motor neurons before growth can really start. Doing the same work out for between 4-6 weeks is the best. Also be consistent in the time of day you work out. You should really only change one variable at a time.

it doesn't.

50 minutes a day ever since i'm in highschool.
But outside of it. I free run and do self training martial arts.

kaidsin wrote:@ShumaGorath

It is alright to work different muscles during different work outs. But its not alright if you go in the gym and decide to do arms, and then just work out your arms with random exercises and random sets, reps, order, intensity weights, exercises. Your body takes a few workouts just to get proper motor neurons before growth can really start. Doing the same work out for between 4-6 weeks is the best. Also be consistent in the time of day you work out. You should really only change one variable at a time.

I think you misunderstood what I meant by varied, I meant full body. Variation between groups. It's a somewhat static process, I just try and get a bit of everything. Who knows, I'm probably doing some things wrong but I've seen marked improvements of what I can run, lift, and endure over the last year so I don't think I'm doing everything wrong.

Dakka is in better shape then i would have guessed.

kaidsin wrote:Dakka is in better shape then i would have guessed.

Or people just like to trump up their weight loss routine :shrug: .

None. I walk 4 miles a day to get to school though.

Up till about two months ago, I worked out two hours at home.

I have since toned it down to about half an hour when I'm weightlifting, and between half an hour and an hour for cardio.

why do people love to do long workouts? I have never understood

kaidsin wrote:why do people love to do long workouts? I have never understood

It's good for cardio? It allows for full body coverage? It accommodates schedules better then more shorter visits?

Its good for weight loss, because you burn lots of calories. It is not good for endurance, strength or cardio. You should not work out your whole body in one day, unless you are doing a circut because you can only get into the gym less then twice a week and it should be around a 45 minute work out.

Strength is about out putting the most energy is the SHORTEST amount of time.
Endurance is best done under fast high intensity.
Cardio is fastest improved by Interval training of rest and sprints.

(Huge generalization to training goals, but you can see why long training doesnt seem to have a purpose other then to burn lots of calories and wreak havoc on your body.)


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The only group of people doing two hour work outs are veterans whose whole day revolves around eating sleeping and training. You should be atleast 5 years into training before it will be beneficial to do more then a hour.

I generally do 10,000 press-ups then rip a phone book in half.


3 times a day.

I just drink powerthirst.

kaidsin wrote:why do people love to do long workouts? I have never understood

I have a lot of time on my hands and it's a more productive way of spending it then banging my head against a brick wall.

kaidsin wrote:The only group of people doing two hour work outs are veterans whose whole day revolves around eating sleeping and training. You should be atleast 5 years into training before it will be beneficial to do more then a hour.

See above.

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:

kaidsin wrote:why do people love to do long workouts? I have never understood

I have a lot of time on my hands and it's a more productive way of spending it then banging my head against a brick wall.

well that's a matter of opinion right there.

Golden Eyed Scout, i am saying the only people who should do more then 2 hours are veterans. You can work out all you want, dont expect results.


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Powerthirst FTW

lets see I go to the gym like never....

Surprisingly I am very slim considering how much i eat and how little movement I do.

Yes my insides might not be healthy but meh.

If im lucky I do about a 30 min brisk walk goin to and from Uni 3 days a week. And normally briskly walk where ever I go.

20-25 min jog + 15 min walk to work Mon-Fri
30 min weights session (focused on keeping heart rate up rather than heavy weights) Mon-Wed-Fri
30 min cardio session tues and thurs
20-25 min jog + 15 min walk home Mon-Fri

At least this is the program I was doing before my wedding in June... Now Im slacker, and stacking the weight back on. I plan to start again next week after I have leave this week.

Lets see how things go.