What do you do when you have very little time for lifting?
How can you incorporate a weight training program into an extremely busy schedule?
It's rather easy, in fact.
If you can set aside two 20-30 minute periods a week, you can still
continue to improve during a hectic time in your life.
Here . . .
1) Standard standing press:
1x10, warmup
1x8 (medium-heavy weight)
1x5 (as heavy as possible without doing the limbo)
2) Squat:
1x20 (light-medium warmup)
1x6 (heavy)
1x3-4 (maximum)
3) Supinated-grip Chins:
1) One set of as many correct, strict chins as you are capable of, until you can do 20, then add weight.
Take two days of rest (or as close as you can get to it during this busier time in your life) between workouts - at least.
Think this workout's too short?
Not convinced that it "covers enough?"
DON'T KNOCK IT TILL YOU'VE TRIED IT.
Give it a sincere and persistent effort, striving to increase the poundages and effort output steadily.
After 6-8 weeks take a week off and rest. Then, either resume the routine as-is, or, if your time for training has opened up a little more, implement a longer layout accordingly.
And remember . . . you don't need two and three hour workouts to achieve all-round strength and conditioning.
Of course, make sure you come as close as possible at this time to getting
enough sleep and rest, and follow a good, balanced diet.
All right, here's a treat from Mr. Steiner as he looks back on his early youth and schooling . . .
How well we remember the child abusers who were passed off as "teachers" when I was a boy in elementary school. Rotten old hags - Miss Monahan, Miss La Porte, Miss Crowley, Mister Lazary, and other sh*ts who never ought to have been permitted to be near zoo animals, save as live food, were turned loose on kids to howl, rant, bellyache, scream, and behave like the sewage they were, free of all concern about being stopped or called to account for their evils, simply because they were authority figures and we, the youngsters, were an incarcerated audience, held captive under their supervision, by law.
Anyone who is in a position of power or authority, whether cop, office manager, commanding officer or what have you, and who pushes those around him under or who abuses them in the slightest manner should be fed to sharks.
I like this guy even more now.
Enjoy Your Lifting!
His small statement on the "teachers" he suffered through was a real find, buried in another article on martial arts training. A good person with no time for the bullshit that likely still influences his worldview, and hopefully he found a way around it without having his perception of the human race in general too-too fucked up by the usual crew of assholes in charge.
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