Where to fit in 60 minutes of weight lifting per day?

[Macaframalama]

I remember when I was younger, I would always set up an alarm clock where every morning before school, it would say something like “do pushups and sit-ups you ****ing wimp” or something like that lol. I would roll out of bed every morning and do pushups and sit-ups pretty much to failure. I remember I would wake up at 5:30 in the morning and bike to my gym before I had to leave to get to the train station for class. It was cold and snowing and icy everywhere sometimes and it was probably dangerous to be biking there a lot of times but I did so anyway because I felt that I had to.

Ever since reading about Hershel Walker's daily, morning ritual I've always wanted to do something like that. Guy is still a beast at his age. I'm not much of a morning person though. Not an excuse, so I'll just go ahead and admit I've been too lazy. Lol. I do not miss training sessions though. If I absolutely have to, because of illness or work, I will make it up by moving a session up or back a day or so. Hangover or tired?.?. Tough chit. I do have a yearly ritual of deadlifting to a new rep max on New year's day that started after being insanely hungover after getting chit faces on NYE years ago. I had a session scheduled and almost talked myself out of it. Despite feeling like I had gotten ran over by a train, I set a 20 pound personal record. It was a good reminder of the body being well capable of going further than the mind thinks. I'm convinced that little rituals go a long way in building a mental toughness that prepares, both the body and the mind for bigger life circumstances, without actually having to experience those extreme circumstances on a frequent basis. Death, job loss, breakups, for example.

 

[Macaframalama]

discipline and sport/gym doesnt solve all problems. good look, feeling, and confidence yes, but only that

This is incorrect. The mind and body can be trained to handle, calibrate and solve problems, evaluate situations more accurately and efficiently. There is literature available specific to such of special ops and mental readiness and situational awareness. The sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) can most definitely be trained. How many times have you read of an elite level athlete stating that, before they have even ran the race, they have ran it a million times over in their head? Muhammed Ali envisioned ko'ing an opponent over and over, before even setting foot in the ring. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Napoleon Hill, on and on. You would be hard pressed to find any practitioner who is in the upper echelon or at an elite level of their chosen craft state the opposite.

 

[mrgoodstuff]

Confidence affects everything

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

discipline and sport/gym doesnt solve all problems. good look, feeling, and confidence yes, but only that

The pushups and sit-ups were because I had an obsessive drive to get stronger. Look up an interview with David Goggins. There was one with Tom Bilyeu where he said he looked at himself as the weakest person God ever created on Earth. That is exactly how I felt about myself back then. I had to change. When I woke up at 5:30 to head to the gym, I would do it because I felt like I was becoming weaker again. I felt that I had to. I don’t get depressed like most people do. I wasn’t really raised that way. I just get mad and pissed off and that just drives me.

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

Ever since reading about Hershel Walker's daily, morning ritual I've always wanted to do something like that. Guy is still a beast at his age. I'm not much of a morning person though. Not an excuse, so I'll just go ahead and admit I've been too lazy. Lol. I do not miss training sessions though. If I absolutely have to, because of illness or work, I will make it up by moving a session up or back a day or so. Hangover or tired?.?. Tough chit. I do have a yearly ritual of deadlifting to a new rep max on New year's day that started after being insanely hungover after getting chit faces on NYE years ago. I had a session scheduled and almost talked myself out of it. Despite feeling like I had gotten ran over by a train, I set a 20 pound personal record. It was a good reminder of the body being well capable of going further than the mind thinks. I'm convinced that little rituals go a long way in building a mental toughness that prepares, both the body and the mind for bigger life circumstances, without actually having to experience those extreme circumstances on a frequent basis. Death, job loss, breakups, for example.

We are a lot tougher than we think we are.

 

[EyeBRollin]

If you spend 7 hours per week at the gym, you're doing it wrong.

You only need 3 times per week tops, no more than 1.5 hours each session.

 

[The Duke]

I have gym fear because I'll be weaker than other men and feel they will be watching and judging me. How do you overcome that?

I'm at the gym 3-5 days a week. Trust me, no one cares....only you!

 

[mrgoodstuff]

If you spend 7 hours per week at the gym, you're doing it wrong.

You only need 3 times per week tops, no more than 1.5 hours each session.

Pro atheletes use 10-20hrs of training time . So if you want that level that's what it takes. If you just want to look pretty good 3-5 hrs a week is plenty .

 

[soulforge]

NOBODY who has a full time job, and has a social life has time for the gym..

You MAKE time for the gym.. I will sometimes sleep only 5 hours and still smash out a crazy workout.. NO EXCUSES!

Suffer now, but live the rest of your life like a CHAMPION.

Going out gaming woman should not be your priority.. Imagine how much better you will do with the ladies when you have the ultimate body!

Its a small price worth paying!

 

[CMNILS87]

If something’s important to you, you’ll MAKE TIME

 

[EyeBRollin]

Pro atheletes use 10-20hrs of training time . So if you want that level that's what it takes. If you just want to look pretty good 3-5 hrs a week is plenty .

You need PEDs to be able to recover from the volume pro athletes endure.

 

[Macaframalama]

You need PEDs to be able to recover from the volume pro athletes endure.

Pro/elite level athletes aren't pushing their limits every session like you see your average gym bro doing or thinks you should do, regardless of PEDs or natty. Volumes, intensities, qualities, etc are periodized and many sessions are skill and recovery based and low to moderate in intensity and volume with the intent of promoting recovery and general prepared fitness. Recovery is taken much more seriously and indicators of fatigue are closely monitored. Bouts of explosive exercise and movements are usually short in duration followed by full recovery, depending on sport. None of this HIIT BS you see pumped by muscle rags on your local newsstands. What separates an elite level athlete from your average joe are superior genetics and nothing else. They may get a +/- 3% performance increase in PEDs at their level, but the willingness to master a skill, work capacity and gpp can all be progressed to high levels by just about any average joe that wants to put in the work to get there. Peds, natty, genetically gifted or average joe.

 

[EyeBRollin]

Pro/elite level athletes aren't pushing their limits every session like you see your average gym bro doing or thinks you should do, regardless of PEDs or natty. Volumes, intensities, qualities, etc are periodized and many sessions are skill and recovery based and low to moderate in intensity and volume with the intent of promoting recovery and general prepared fitness. Recovery is taken much more seriously and indicators of fatigue are closely monitored. Bouts of explosive exercise and movements are usually short in duration followed by full recovery, depending on sport. None of this HIIT BS you see pumped by muscle rags on your local newsstands. What separates an elite level athlete from your average joe are superior genetics and nothing else. They may get a +/- 3% performance increase in PEDs at their level, but the willingness to master a skill, work capacity and gpp can all be progressed to high levels by just about any average joe that wants to put in the work to get there. Peds, natty, genetically gifted or average joe.

That’s some serious cognitive dissonance. Playing 82 or 164 games per season is a lot more intense than HIIT. Do you know how grueling professional seasons are on the human body? You’re naive if you don’t think the best athletes are using PEDs in addition to the best training and recovery methods available. Average joes have no chance to make it to the pros.

Genetics are a cop out for the uncomfortable truth that most of your athletes are juicing. Most of your actors, fitness models, and anyone else that makes a living off elite physical appearance is enhanced. The human body has physical limitations that can only be eclipsed with the help of drugs.