So when do you train?

Huggles

I, myself, am looking to lose weight so I am in the gym as often as possible. Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and I also do kettlebells on a Thursday.

Durng the working week I arrive at the gym at 4.30 and leave at 7 and on weekends I am there from 9-10.30 depending on the day ahead.

What about you?

barclay2

wow thats a lot of gym-going. I rememeber, as a student last year i needed to lose a lot of weight so i'd be in the college gym about 5 days a week too. generally in the afternoon. Now with a job, obviously im busy during the day.

Im also not really trying to lose weight anymore, generally just trying to stay in shape. I hop on the exercise bike in the house for 30 mins in the morning before work. Means ive to get up at 6 in the morning, which is a pain in the ass, but its best to get it out of the way cos its very easy to blow it off after a long day at work. Im waiting on some new in-soles, as soon as i get them im gonna start joggin in the morning. I do weights after work some days, generally at about half 7 for maybe 45 mins or so.

Ive read quite a few websites that suggest that what im doing is a good way of going about it - doing cardio in the morning on an empty stomach, your body has no carbs to burn so burns right into your fat. And separating weights and cardio into different times of the day is supposedly good for some reason. I doubt it makes a decisive difference what time of the day you do it at though, just as long as you do it!

I should point out that doing cardio in the morning, while it might burn right into your bodyfat, its also the time where you've least energy so you wont be able to go as hard or fast as you would after a meal.

Gaz

Day on , day off for me. Working shift at the moment so the actual time of day varies.

GerryRyan

I try to get to the gym 3-4 days a week - gotta love the college gym. Free weights section 'will' be empty everyday at 1

I try to get a run in most mornings - few laps of local park with the dog trailing behind.

Other than that it's a load of body weight and cross-fit stuff during the day ... will force myself to do 5-6 pull-ups everytime I pass by the bar at home.

And tying to follow the 'hit the deck' press-up program at the minute

Canis Lupus

Mon through to Fri 45 mins. Alternate between weights and cardio. From tomorrow onwards gonna increase time on weights. So far my weights plan has been all over the shop. Time to focus for me.

Supercell

ThatGuy wrote: »

Other than that it's a load of body weight and cross-fit stuff during the day ... will force myself to do 5-6 pull-ups everytime I pass by the bar at home.

Lol I'm the same.
I got a pull up bar from Mickk yesterday. So far I have completed 0 pull-ups.
Doesn't stop me trying every time I pass it ....
Hopefully by xmas I'll do it...next year I'm going for muscle up's

Gaz

Longfield wrote: »

So far I have completed 0 pull-ups.

Going straight into pullups/chins is tough, i spent the last 6 months doing assisted chins , only moved onto non-assisted last week.
Then you see guys doing them with 40kg hanging from them :eek:

We will get there !

BossArky

TheGooner wrote: »

What about you?

Usually weekday evenings 9pm - 10pm, plus Saturday & Sunday mornings for 90 minutes.

It varies but try to get to the gym at least four times a week.

ali.c

Longfield wrote: »

Lol I'm the same.
I got a pull up bar from Mickk yesterday. So far I have completed 0 pull-ups.
Doesn't stop me trying every time I pass it ....
Hopefully by xmas I'll do it...next year I'm going for muscle up's

http://jumpstretch.com/osc/index.php?cPath=21&osCsid=0cd4b37375ba6e1ac207f0e88332f746

Might be worth a look to give you some assistance. Never tried them myself but have heard good things.

Alos i do negatives and partial reps as i cant do full ones, might be worth a go to help you build yourself up!

Cravez

I usually train on Wednsdays, Fridays & Saturdays. I have to travel up from Wicklow to train in Pinnacle in the city center (yes, its that damn good! ). Iv always been a morning person to do training so around 9am or there arounds mostly but sometimes train in the afternoon, i hate training in the evening for some reason as it has opposite affect on me and i have barely any energy to train.

@ Longfield & Darth - Id recommend doing lots of rows and lat pull-downs (close grip and palms facing in or wide grip and palms facing away) along with your chins/pull-up work to increase your strength. Once you get to the stage of doing 10 chins/pull-ups comfortabley id purchase a dip belt and start adding weight, even just 1.25kg or 2.5kg starting off. Id also do some grip work also as this will help with chins/pull-ups also

tribulus

Usually deadlift on monday
Bench ass/lockout wednesday
Squat thursday or friday depending on if im recovered from monday
Bench saturday

Evening times after 5, in the morning start about 12pm on saturday.

It will all change around though once i start the comp cycle.

Recon

When I'm working nights I go at 4 am in work. Some cardio everytime and a 3 day program for weights. Day 1: chest and triceps, day 2: back and biceps, and day 3: shoulders.

Tigger

deadlifts grip shrugs and stabalisers -monday
bench millitary pullups and lateral rises and manups -tuesday
squat grip and leg stuff -wed
nothing -thursday
close bench, rows curls bar and dumbbell -friday
weekend walks, running, hiking etc -sat sun

rubadub

Longfield wrote: »

Lol I'm the same.
I got a pull up bar from Mickk yesterday. So far I have completed 0 pull-ups.
Doesn't stop me trying every time I pass it ....
Hopefully by xmas I'll do it...next year I'm going for muscle up's

As mentioned it is hard going straight in. I could do none at the start, it would be like the equivalent of trying to say curl 30kg on your first go, you cant, and not having the full range of motion, (i.e. only going halfway) will not help a lot.

I can now do ~15chins and ~11pullups. Negatives helped me HUGELY.

Get yourself a chair or box. Stand on it so you are in the highest position of a pullup, chin well up over the bar. Now lower yourself down nice & slow controlled. Now get straight back up and do some more reps. This will work a lot more muscle than simply attempting a pull up and only going halfway. Once you get the first one out it really will snowball from there on, if you can do say 3 proper ones, keep the chair there and knock out a few more negatives.

I have rings from www.ringtraining.com these loop over the chinning bar. I am doing loads of work on them, ditched my bench now. Only use weights for deadlifts, squats & military press. And might ditch the military press once I am strong enough for handstand pushups on the rings.

I do workouts in the morning, evenings, and after before pigging out at home so the food goes to some use! thats the advantage of equpiment at home.

Supercell

rubadub wrote: »

As mentioned it is hard going straight in. I could do none at the start, it would be like the equivalent of trying to say curl 30kg on your first go, you cant, and not having the full range of motion, (i.e. only going halfway) will not help a lot.

I can now do ~15chins and ~11pullups. Negatives helped me HUGELY.

Get yourself a chair or box. Stand on it so you are in the highest position of a pullup, chin well up over the bar. Now lower yourself down nice & slow controlled. Now get straight back up and do some more reps. This will work a lot more muscle than simply attempting a pull up and only going halfway. Once you get the first one out it really will snowball from there on, if you can do say 3 proper ones, keep the chair there and knock out a few more negatives.

I have rings from www.ringtraining.com these loop over the chinning bar. I am doing loads of work on them, ditched my bench now. Only use weights for deadlifts, squats & military press. And might ditch the military press once I am strong enough for handstand pushups on the rings.

I do workouts in the morning, evenings, and after before pigging out at home so the food goes to some use! thats the advantage of equpiment at home.

Thanks, tried that this evening and was killer, will definitly incorporate that into my routine until I can do them fully.