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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Summary: If you only have an hour per week to work out and want to make the most of it

  • Avoid time consuming set ups and weight switching (e.g. opt for dumbbells and machines with weight stacks over barbells)
  • Train multiple groups at once with compound exercises
  • Train harder and go to failure more often
  • Actually, train even harder and get closer to or past failure with drop sets

Nothing revolutionary here, but the advice is sound, and it's coming from a pretty reputable guy. Why is it getting so many downvotes? They're not saying this would be easy (and from experience, I can tell you it isn't), nor that it's a good way for beginners to get started.

Although...

you can get in and out of the gym in around 20 minutes. Do that 3 days a week

That might be a tad unrealistic. It takes five minutes to change and put away your bags. That leaves you with 10min to do your workout. Not worth it. Better to just do a full hour once a week and supplement with some bodyweight exercises at home.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • You don't have to go to failure for gains.
  • missing warmup

How do you squat and others only with dumbbells? How heavy are his dumbbells?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

You don't have to go to failure for gains.

You don't. This article is about saving time, not things you have to do to make gains. You can compensate for doing fewer sets and lower frequency by going closer to failure. It may not be ideal, but neither is only having an hour per week to workout. You do what you can given what you have.

missing warmup

Huh? The article says "put all Wolf's advice together, along with a good warmup".

How do you squat and others only with dumbbells?

Either have untrained legs, or don't do it with DBs. If you need to do barbell squats, you just have to accept that it'll take longer.