So the Personal Training Police are probably going to come take me away for saying this, but I’m doing it anyway. Weight workouts don’t have to take a long time.
Let’s say we have a cardio habit. We’re good at getting in our half hour most days a week, but we’ve been struggling to find another chunk of time to get in the weights. Just do two weight exercises at the end of the cardio.
Here’s how it might work. Monday, we do our 30 minutes on the spin bike and we do two squats and bench press, two sets of ten each. If we alternate between the squats and the bench press, we don’t have to rest much between sets because we’re using different muscle groups. That takes maybe five more minutes and then we stretch and get out of the gym. Tuesday we go play outside and do our thirty minutes running or hiking or walking. Wednesday, we go back to the gym, hit the elliptical for 30 minutes and then do deadlifts and flies, again, two sets of ten each. Thursday we go to Zumba. Friday, we do intervals on the treadmill and then do lunges and rows. We’ve done a balance of work on our upper and lower body and we’ve only added a few minutes to our gym time on three of our days.
Try it!
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