How to arrange workouts in just 1:15 hrs in the gym
I've been doing weight lifting since 2001 and I feel say comfortable with myself but want to go beyond that. I started the Break-in workouts well with a lot of "free" time in the gym, daily I usually spent 1:15 hours there but with break-in program I finished in no more than 35 minutes including warming-up.
But now that I moved to hypertrophy I, it's being too difficult for me to follow the workouts because of the time required to complete them. I wasn't able to finish the first superset (dumbbel incline bench press & cable seated row), I just did workouts 1-8, it took me around 56 minutes (counting warming-up, resting times and workouts - on average 3 minutes each -).
Is it possible to split workout A and divide it into 2 days? or lower rest times until I feel recovered (usually less than rest time indicated) and do workoutA.1-workoutB-workoutA.2, etc? OR can I reduce the number of workouts and instead of having 12, to have 5 for each exercise?. It's very hard for me stay longer in the gym or step-in in the afternoon.
I know what you mean... this web navigators sometimes do as they like.
About my questions. In hypertrophy I it is suggested to do 12 workouts for all excercises in all supersets:
Superset with full rest (Dumbbell incline bench press):
excercise 1, 4, 7, 10 do 5 sets of 5 reps each and rest 90 seconds at a tempo of 311 (normal)
then, excercise 2,5,8,11 same as above and so forth (there are 440 repetitions if I sum all sets just for dumbbell incline bench press and as the others have the same sets and reps, there are 2640 reps plus the resting times... I lost count but I guess that amount of exercise is no way to fit in 75 minutes), and I only have 75 to 80 minutes for being in the gym, so my question is, can I reduce the number of exercises say instead of having 12, having 4 or 5? and reduce also the resting times and augmenting reps weight?
I was also asking in my last post that perhaps I could alternate workouts and fill the weekdays with monday:WorkoutA, tuesday:WorkoutB, wed:WorkoutA, etc... and again, with less exercises to fit them in 75 minutes?
I really had enjoyed changing from isolated exercises to working muscle groups. That was something new for me at the gym. I now leave the gym feeling I've worked my muscles better than before, even though this time constrain I have.
I don't have the book in front of me, but I think you are misreading the instructions of the workout. You should only do one of the workouts at a time. I haven't yet started "NROL", but I have read the book and I don't think any of the workouts should take longer than an hour. I am sure Lou can help with the specifics, and I can respond again after I look at the book.
BU
Check out Oxymoron's post under training logs it is listed as the "new rules of everything". He has done the Hypertrophy 1 and it shows the number of lifts that you should be doing.
I'll keep an eye on Oxymoron's posts because he jumped from Break-in to FatLoss and I did it to Strenght I (left hypertrophy out) and I'm feeling too worked out but fine. For the first time in months I feel my muscles are working. What I did was to reduce the number of sets and left the number of reps.
How to arrange workouts in just 1:15 hrs in the gym
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