What do you measure your workouts by?

jr1985

When at the gym working out... What measurement do you base your work outs on? Do you stay until you have worked out for X amount of time? burned X amount of calories? or went X amount of miles?

For me, I always set a minimum time limit that I will stay on a machine or at the gym... But I'm I have the time to stay a little longer and am not exhausted then I go ahead and either stay on until I've reached a certain calorie amount burned if I haven't already, Generally I don't care as much about distance unless I'm pretty close to the next mile or something.

What do you measure your work outs by?

Di3012

I train on the treadmill indoors. I set out to do a session on there for one hour.

If, halfway through the session, I feel really crappy or "strange" I will cut the running down and just walk to the one hour mark.

PirateJohn

I don't measure them, really. I usually have a muscle group to train going in (yesterday afternoon it was chest and triceps) and work that one out until I'm exhausted. As for cardio, I don't like doing that in the gym so much, though I will use the cardio machines for a little while. I'd rather run on the road. For that, I use a GPS watch and measure my distance and time.

jr1985

You guys are more dedicated than me I can stay on the elliptical all day, but I run for just a 1/4 of a mile and I'm wiped out, lol