About an hour and a half doing MADCOW plus accessories, 3x/week.

For those that have seen good results from weights, how much time in the gym do you spend lifting? My workout routine takes about a 45min to an hour. 15 of it on cardio and 30-45 on weights. Curious if that is in-line with what others do?

Goals and training experience are going to play a huge role in that, IMO.

My training takes around two hours but lately I've been training primarily for strength, so the loads are a bit heavier and rest times are a bit longer, and the training emphasizes squat/bench/deadlift.

When I first started lifting I did HIT with just 5 lifts, twice a week: Squat, Deadlift, OHP, Bench Press, and Lat Pulldowns. HIT is just one set to failure in the 6-9 rep range.... so each workout lasted maybe 20 minutes. My strength skyrocketed and I also put on quite a bit of mass. It is hard to say if it was due to newbie gains or what, but it worked for me.

Today my routine is Jim Wendler's 4-day triumvirate split, but my set/rep scheme is still basically HIT combined with Ed Coan's 10-week periodization plan. That is, I start out with a 10 rep set at the beginning of a cycle and work my way up to heavier weight and a higher max after about 10 weeks.

If you want to minimize gym time, my recommendation is to do squats (front and back), deadlifts, dips, and chin-ups on a 2-day split. That will hit every single muscle in the body. As far as the set/rep scheme is concerned, that depends on your goals, but I highly recommend doing some form of periodization. The higher reps at the start of a cycle will allow your muscles to recover from the intensity of the heavy weight from the previous cycle.

If there is anything I have learned it is that the heavier you lift, the more time your body needs to recuperate. Deloads and ample rest at the end of a cycle are absolutely critical to prevent injury and stalling.

Good luck.

Pay attention to the effort you are giving, not how long it's taking you. There are lots of 30 minutes routines that are far better than lots of 90 minute routines.

It's about the lifts you do and the intensity with which you do them... not the length of time the routine takes.

But to your question... I spend anywhere from 45 mins to an hour in the gym, 30ish minutes actually lifting depending on the day.

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I spend a longer time on average when I can get in a full session, but that is really due to the fact that I train for powerlifting and I have a lot of warm up sets and a lot of rest in between sets. Plus at the moment 2 of my 4 sessions are full body. My sessions can take between 2 and 3 hours if I were to get all the lifts and assistance work in. I often end up splitting it into 2 sessions - one in the morning/day and one in the evening (or even the next day). I lift at home so I am pretty sure this leads to longer sessions - more rest time and distractions.

Wow, 2-3 hours? I wish
I guess no one here has small kids :ohwell:
1 hour 3-4x / week, but I do supersets and do not rest much