Weight Training - how loong do you spend on this?

amyloudonlon

Hi All
Iv started getting into weight training, after doing body pump it gave me the inspiration. I love weights! I cant don much but iv recorded all my current weights so I can increase and get better. I generally do a 30-60 minute class and then follow with weight training which generally takes 20 mins. This seems really short? is this correct? I generally use 8 machines and d0 12 x 3 sets. Iv not begun on deadlifts or squats yet. easing in and getting comfortable with the machines
thank you x

h7463

Hi there!
I can't say that there is a time limit on lifting in any way. You can archive a lot in 20 minutes (plus light warmup, of course), just by concentrating on compound lifts. Otherwise, I've got my exercises lined up, an it takes until I'm finished....lol
HOWEVER, if you want to really improve your lifts, than you have to take a good look at your overall training schedule. Out of personal experience, a longer steady state cardio session is best done after the lifting session, just to burn off some more calories. Also, anything demanding, like HIIT is better not scheduled before lifting, because you wouldn't want to exhaust yourself too much before moving around anything heavy. This would only set you up for serious injury. You'd be too tired to keep your bits and pieces under control.
The purpose of lifting is to make your muscles respond through controlled overload or exhaustion by lifting to failure. You wouldn't want to spoil the results by working out before working out, right....
As example, I lift 3 days per week, 2 days of light cardio or yoga, 1 day interval training, 1 day rest. Not necessarily in this order. The lineup depends on how I recover after training.
Good luck!

Lofteren

If you want to start lifting and have access to a gym, I would run Starting Strength (which is 3 days a week, training sessions will be around 30-45 minutes) then I would follow weight training with 15-20 min of HIIT.

IGbnat24

I set my training days up as a circuit and focus only on compound lifts. I'm in and out in 25-30min

shmerek

For me 3 times a week and 45-65 minutes per session for lifting. 30-45 for my non lifting workouts.

Willbenchforcupcakes

5 days a week, 50-70 minutes a day. A couple hours of cardio a week, when I can fit it in

marvybells

i was doing full body 3x's a week and it was taking me about 110-120 mins a session...but that's because i decided to switch from StrongLifts which was only about 45-50 mins to ICF (which has a lot of accessory work after the main lifts so it pretty much doubled my workout time).

It got to be too much for me so i recently switched to a split routine. I have been averaging about an hour a session four days a week.