Half an hour at the gym - is that enough?

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  • sandylion
    sandylion Posts: 451 Member
    I had great success doing the strong lifts 5x5 program. It's only about a half an hour 3 times a week and I saw wonderful results. Also, lifting weights gave me wonderful tone!
  • GradatimFerociter
    GradatimFerociter Posts: 296 Member
    Well, any improvement is good though that routine may not be giving you a particularly good return on your investment. If 30 minutes is what you have then just try to use it wisely. Not everyone has the same schedule or the same motivations so just try it and see how it works for you.
  • SeanSilk
    SeanSilk Posts: 12
    It depends on your body type. And fitness level. Each of the body types require different exercise regimens.
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  • mantium999
    mantium999 Posts: 1,490 Member
    It depends on your body type. And fitness level. Each of the body types require different exercise regimens.
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  • thejbuchh
    thejbuchh Posts: 2 Member
    Different things work for different people (as I'm sure we are all aware of. However, while 30 minutes may seem nothing to one person, it can be something to another. For me personally, 30 minutes would be my first exercise of the day (yes I do more than one workout a day). What I usually do is I start with my Dailyburn workout in the morning (usually 28-30 minutes), then I go head to the gym at planet fitness for 30 minutes. Then after work, I go home and do the dailyburn 365 workout. That gives me about 1.5 hours a day of working out. All different levels of intensity. But again it is more about what you eat.
  • peaceout_aly
    peaceout_aly Posts: 2,018 Member
    Losing weight will come from eating at a deficit. If you do that, you will shed pounds automatically. Think of the gym as "winning" extra calories that you can consume (it's recommended to only eat back half). Honestly, I used to be like you and focus on getting a half-hour in at the gym and then being done with it. Now I struggle to get everything I want to do in a 2-hour time period. Start small, but the more you hit the gym the more variations you will want to do and the easier it will be to stay for an hour or two. Also, it's not really about the "time" spent at the gym - it's about what you are doing in that time.
  • Int3rceptor
    Int3rceptor Posts: 45 Member
    If you are limited to 30 minutes then you may want to incorporate HIIT instead of steady state cardio.
    30 minutes of HIIT (providing you keep the intensity up) will leave you exhausted and feeling like you've had a good workout!
  • chriseatsedamame
    chriseatsedamame Posts: 1 Member
    In my opinion, I don't think is really about time, I think it's more about the effort so 30 minute is atleast the minimum.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    I think your time would be better spent on doing either cardio or strength training for the full 30 min and alternating days. You can get a full body strength workout done in 30 min, and it would be better to hit all those muscles 2-3x week rather than just some parts for the 10 min at the end of your cardio. If you continue your walks at lunch, you don't necessarily have to do more cardio at the gym.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,768 Member
    Who woke up this thread of truly terrible advice, from 2012?!?!

    OP is long gone, I'd bet.

    Balance between calories eaten and burned determines bodyweight.

    Fitness is a different thing, worth pursuing, but what matters is how well the person's fitness activities support their fitness goals, and build sensibly on their current fitness level.

    Arrgh! :neutral:
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