Do I absolutely have to have a "routine" for strength training?

CipherZero

watts6151 wrote: »

Warm up with bar

20 reps 60 kg warm up
15 reps 100kg warm up
10 reps 140kg. Last warm up set
6 reps 180 kg
3x3 230-240 kg
6 reps 180
20 reps 100kg

That's my current squat routine

Jesus, that's a lotta squatting. Mine goes:

• bar x 10 (the first five paused reps)
• 40% working weight x 5
• 60% working weight x 3
• 80% working weight x 2
• 90% working weight x 2
• Work sets (currently 1x5 top set and 2x5 backoffs at 90%+ working weight)

Takes about fifty minutes with 10 minute rests between work sets (and only long enough to change plates on warm up sets) since I recover like someone who's seventy.

bbell1985

stanmann571 wrote: »

watts6151 wrote: »

I wing most of my routines tbh

AnvilHead wrote: »

For most people, lifting weights without a well-designed routine is like leaving for a road trip to a strange destination with no map. You may eventually get there, but it's going to take a lot longer and be a lot more difficult than if you'd planned it correctly. Most people don't understand how to intelligently design/structure a lifting routine and just end up spinning their wheels and not accomplishing much of anything.

An hour in the weight room is plenty of time to do a good routine.

No chance I can do a leg session in an hour, squatting alone takes me 35-45mins, usually ends up at 90+ mins

What are you doing with squats that takes 45 minutes.

When I squat it can take an hour. Warm up sets, heavy working sets at triples or doubles near max. Yep. Not breezing through that.