#325: Highly Effective Training With Limited Time
Barbell Medicine Podcast
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The podcast discusses what happens when people stop exercising, how much exercise is necessary, and how to program exercise with limited time.
Recommendations for training on limited time:
- Resistance training: 3-5 sets per muscle group per week of compound exercises at >65% 1RM for strength. Add isolation exercises if desired.
- Conditioning: 150 mins/week moderate or 75 mins/week vigorous intensity. Split up however you want. Be careful about doing too much sprint/max intensity work. Gradually build up if desired.
- Strategies for efficient programming include:
- Modifying warm-ups to be more time-efficient (short rest, less reps, bigger jumps)
- Using supersets of antagonist muscle groups or unrelated movements
- Employing "every two- or three- minute on the minute" protocols. e.g. E2MOM or E3MOM: 5 @ 8, then 65% x 5 e2mom x 3 sets or > RPE 8
- Use time caps on sessions, e.g. 20-minutes for movement 1 or work up to 1-rep @ RPE 8 in 8 minutes, then 12 minutes perform maximum sets of 3 to 5 reps with 70% e1RM
- Flexibility in scheduling is key - focus on getting the total amount of work done over a 1-2 month period rather than worrying about perfect weekly routines
Time Crunch Template (Update coming soon!)
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References:
- Wolin 2008
- Sturm 2019
- Garcia-Hermoso 2022
- Benito 2020
- Radaelli 2015
- Grgic 2018
- Nolan 2018
- Chen 2022
- Gavanda 2020
- Hortobagyi 1993
- Halonen 2024
- Mujika 2001
- Smith 2003
- Encarnacao 2022
- Staron 1991
- Ivey 2000
- Grgic 2022
- Piercy 2018
- Hamer 2017
- Khurshid 2023
- Schoenfeld 2017
- Krieger 2009
- Perkin 2019
- Fyfe 2022
- Androulakis-Korakis 2021
- Borde 2015
- Lesinski 2016
- Yang 2018
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