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    How much time do you dedicate to lifting?

    Posts: 299 Member
    edited February 7 in Fitness and Exercise
    ATM, I don't have a gym membership. I do most of my workouts at home or outdoors. Unfortunately, I don't have the space it would require to lift at home, so the gym really does seem like my only option.

    I see a lot of people saying they workout for 1.5 hours/ 5 times a week at the gym and I just don't have the time to do that.

    So, I'm just curious how much time a week do most people dedicate to lifting?

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    • Posts: 4,885 Member
      4 days/week for an hour each time. Strictly lifting. Any cardio outside of that is just a bonus for me.
    • Posts: 5,481 Member
      40-60 mins, 5 days week :happy:
    • Posts: 484 Member
      I joined the gym specifically so I could start weight training, and I lift 3 times a week for about an hour or so.

      Now that the weather is bad I use the gym for cardio too so I'm there 6 days a week, but in the good weather I ran outdoors so would only have been using the gym 3 days.

      Personally, with the results I've been seeing - the membership fee is worth it even if I was only going for the 3 days
    • Posts: 1,418 Member
      30 min of pure lifting 3-4 times a week. I stay active on the weekend with hiking, but that's it.
    • Posts: 1,260 Member
      What are your goals? You may find bodyweight exercises will give you all the strength and development that you want and be able to do all of this in around 30-45 minutes per day at home.
    • Posts: 416 Member
      Depends on what muscle group i'm working, but typically 1.5 hours 4-5 days a week. Hockey the other 2 days.
    • Posts: 446 Member
      60-80 minutes 3 times per week. I do compound lifts rather than isolated. Seems to work better for me at the moment.
    • Posts: 406 Member
      None. Perhaps I should but right now I just do the treadmill.
    • Posts: 3,942 Member
      As a beginner, you could do 3x6 of bench, deads and squats twice a week for 30-50 minutes per session...
    • Posts: 5,263 Member
      20-30 minutes 3-4 times a week.
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    • Posts: 299 Member
      What are your goals? You may find bodyweight exercises will give you all the strength and development that you want and be able to do all of this in around 30-45 minutes per day at home.

      Well I want to look hot obviously LOL

      Right now I do a mix of elliptical, jogging, zumba and at least 2 or 3 times a week I do fitnessblender toning videos.
    • Posts: 97 Member
      ATM, I don't have a gym membership. I do most of my workouts at home or outdoors. Unfortunately, I don't have the space it would require to lift at home, so the gym really does seem like my only option.

      I see a lot of people saying they workout for 1.5 hours/ 5 times a week at the gym and I just don't have the time to do that.

      So, I'm just curious how much time a week do most people dedicate to lifting?

      Weightlifting? 4 to 5 times per 1 week at about 1 hour per session. Can be longer if I have to wait for equipment to free up
      Running? 2 to 1 time per week at 1 hour minimum.

      You can do quite a bit to be fit where you currently are-home and outdoors. Look up bodyweight workout of the day after googling those key words. Look into craigslist for inexpensive weights.
    • Posts: 1,915 Member
      I'm with you! I do Chalean Extreme and the lifting videos (3X per week) are 35 minutes each. I do 2 days of cardio, which are also under an hour. Gets the job done for me!
    • Posts: 982 Member
      My lifting workouts take 60-70 minutes 3x a week. Then I do 3x a week of cardio for 30-45mins each.
    • Posts: 299 Member
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      Weightlifting? 4 to 5 times per 1 week at about 1 hour per session. Can be longer if I have to weight for equipment to free up
      Running? 2 to 1 time per week at 1 hour minimum.

      You can do quite a bit to be fit where you currently are-home and outdoors. Look up bodyweight workout of the day after googling those key words. Look into craigslist for inexpensive weights.

      I do body weight workouts though some videos on fitnessblender. Is that enough to compensate for lifting?
    • Posts: 97 Member
      I wrote a long answer and then the site indicated down for maintenance. Hehehe

      The workouts at fitnessblender remind me of the cardio boot camp course I did over the summer. It was a grueling fast paced course and would leave me afterwards both sore and drenched in sweat. What are you experiencing in terms of results from the workouts thus far? Do you like how you feel? Feel an increase in overall health and stamina?

      You can supplement and simulate weight work with body weight in the form of pushups, squats, lunges, dips(from a chair or bench), etc.

      http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/body-weight-exercises

      For real tough there is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnjb8Hx76u8
    • Posts: 764 Member
      90 to 120 minutes 3 times per week. However, I built a gym in my basement so it's not super inconvenient.
    • Posts: 7,166 Member
      45 min, twice a week.
    • Posts: 1,233
      5 days a week for 60-70 minutes depending on what I'm doing.
    • Posts: 10,413 Member
      30-40 minutes, 2-4 times per week.

      A good workout can easily happen in 20-30 minutes. Most people don't need to spend nearly as much time workout out as they do.

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    • Posts: 956 Member
      My lifting (which is most of what I do) is about 60-80 minutes 4 times a week.
    • Posts: 588 Member
      Research Stronglifts 5x5: 30 mins 3x per week.
    • Posts: 1,934 Member
      3x per week for 60-120 minutes, depending on what kind of time I have available and how much overtime I've been working. Minimum of 3 hours a week tho.
    • Posts: 2,558 Member
      Three days a week. Time spent per workout is mostly decided by my rest periods. If I hit all my reps easily then 90 second rest periods mean I can be in and out in 30 minutes. If I hit them, but it's tough, then three minute rests make it more like 45 to 60 minutes. If it's a bad day and I'm missing reps then five minute rest periods can extend it to 90 minutes.
    • Posts: 605 Member
      Once or twice a week for 20 minutes.
    • Posts: 126 Member
      i just started about a month ago but i spend 30mins lifting and 30mins running/ walking. i do that 5 days a week.
    • Posts: 10,161 Member
      About an hour, three times a week. Though it's actually been a little more lately, maybe 1.5 hours including warmups.
    • Posts: 55 Member
      I lift 3 times per week using dumbbell 1.9 kg doing 3 reps of 15 dumdbell shoulder press squats.
    • Posts: 549 Member
      4-5 days a week, 45-60 minutes each trip

      I try to sneak in 20 minutes of HIIT cardio in about 2 or 3 of those days
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