Working out throughout the day

happyness4me

Thinking about breaking up my strength workouts throughout the day. For example doing 1 set of the various exercises in the morning, one when I get home, and 1 before bed. I know it's not ideal. This would be 3-4 days per week. But I think only needing to commit 15ish minutes at a time will help me stay consistent. Lately I have been not working out because I don't have the time or I'm exhausted and the thought of a 45+ minute session feels daunting. Idk what else to do. Thoughts?

yirara

I’d be worried about not warming up properly, and depending on the workout you do proper form. When I lift I always to an unloaded lift first to make sure form is spot on. 15 minutes sounds short.

goingape

I’ve been thinking of doing this breaking up as well. I have hand weights and exercise bands on hand. I like the idea of fitting in more through the day. Curious to hear from others who do this work out style !

Chieflrg

As you said, not ideal...but I'm okay with it over less training and if you will adhere, then even better.

sijomial

With the caveat that a less than ideal workout that is actually done is superior to a perfect workout that gets skipped I think it really wouldn't achieve much the way you describe it. I build up to my working sets so if I did one round of all my exercises I would never get to a point where I was doing something useful.
(You haven't said what exercises you do so my style of strength training could be very different to yours.....)

Maybe if you feel you have to break it up into small chunks completing all your sets of one or two exercises in one mini session might work better?
Maybe pair a push and a pull or an upper and lower exercise so that you could get a more useful volume at an appropriate intensity in that time period?

happyness4me

sijomial wrote: »

With the caveat that a less than ideal workout that is actually done is superior to a perfect workout that gets skipped I think it really wouldn't achieve much the way you describe it. I build up to my working sets so if I did one round of all my exercises I would never get to a point where I was doing something useful.
(You haven't said what exercises you do so my style of strength training could be very different to yours.....)

Maybe if you feel you have to break it up into small chunks completing all your sets of one or two exercises in one mini session might work better?
Maybe pair a push and a pull or an upper and lower exercise so that you could get a more useful volume at an appropriate intensity in that time period?

Good advice. It actually took me more like 20 minutes splitting it this way. I think I may split it up into lower in the morning and upper in the evening. I'll have to experiment.
For upper I do a horizontal push, hospital horizontal pull, vertical push, and a vertical pull. On the weekends I have time to add accessory if I do a dedicated upper session.
For lower I do 2 quad dominant, 2 hamstring dominant, and 2 core exercises. I add accessories on the weekends if it's a dedicated lower session. I'll have to play around with my schedule and see what works.