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Nothing wrong with finishing slower. In fact, if you are lifting heavy, its smart to take a bit longer between sets to have full power. If you are lifting lighter and want to get your heartbeat up, then I'd say take shorter rest periods.
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Originally Posted by hooligan
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It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you are doing heavy or very technical lifts - go slow and make sure you're being safe.
If you are doing HIIT or some other sort of "circuit" training, keeping an aggressive pace is important.
Rushing through a workout is bad. It just increases your chance of injury. Its best to shoot for proper form instead. The only time where its good to go faster is if you have a cardio session that you want to blast away a lot of calories with. BUT you should not sacrifice good form for speed in that case either.
i guess it depends on how much of a rush we are talking about. it shouldnt really take extra time to use proper form.
As others have said, go at your own pace to work out safely. The only benefit to finishing a workout quickly is having more time in the day to do other things. It does nothing for your body. Keeping your rest period between sets short is just a way of increasing your heart rate and metabolism and therefore calorie/fat burning, but by no means should you rush a workout.
That being said, perhaps another way of wording it is "should I spend several hours in the gym when I workout?". The answer to that is No. Working out for too long (also known as over training) is not good because after a certain point your body will start burning away calories essential for muscle recovery and growth. You want keep your workouts to around 45 minutes to 1 and 1/2 hours depending on the type of exercise (weight training, cardio, sports), how many times a day you exercise (i.e jog in the morning, basketball game in afternoon, weight train at evening), and how intensely you exercise. If you exercise multiple times a day, you want to make sure you get enough proper nutrition and rest between each time. If one of your exercises is intense, go easier on the other one(s) or save them for another day.
i guess it depends on how much of a rush we are talking about. it shouldnt really take extra time to use proper form.
It doesn't take massive amounts of time of course. But you know how people move sloppy to finish up sets or will skip adjusting machines for ht. Rushes like that are not good at all.
As others have said, go at your own pace to work out safely. The only benefit to finishing a workout quickly is having more time in the day to do other things. It does nothing for your body. Keeping your rest period between sets short is just a way of increasing your heart rate and metabolism and therefore calorie/fat burning, but by no means should you rush a workout.
That being said, perhaps another way of wording it is "should I spend several hours in the gym when I workout?". The answer to that is No. Working out for too long (also known as over training) is not good because after a certain point your body will start burning away calories essential for muscle recovery and growth. You want keep your workouts to around 45 minutes to 1 and 1/2 hours depending on the type of exercise (weight training, cardio, sports), how many times a day you exercise (i.e jog in the morning, basketball game in afternoon, weight train at evening), and how intensely you exercise. If you exercise multiple times a day, you want to make sure you get enough proper nutrition and rest between each time. If one of your exercises is intense, go easier on the other one(s) or save them for another day.
Overtraining is not working out for too long. Nor is there a specific time that it happens in. Look at some of the Russian Olympic lifters. Their training was 2-3 sessions of 2 hours each per day.
It doesn't take massive amounts of time of course. But you know how people move sloppy to finish up sets or will skip adjusting machines for ht. Rushes like that are not good at all.
i see some weird form in the gym. the worst thing you can do is injure yourself, especially a back injury.
i will say though, some of the most beefcake guys in the gym will do extreme heavy weights and do partial motion exercises. its not really what ive done but you cant argue with beefcake.
Quickly?? The gym is my only hiding place lately. It makes me forget my demons and regrets of the outside world. Then I can go home and sleep, coz I am terribly tired. I've dropped 6.5 pounds in one week. At least, that's a good thing.
Rushing through a workout is bad. It just increases your chance of injury. Its best to shoot for proper form instead. The only time where its good to go faster is if you have a cardio session that you want to blast away a lot of calories with. BUT you should not sacrifice good form for speed in that case either.
When I do a workout of 10-20 minutes, I do not rush through it. By design, high intensity training is short and you put forward a lot more effort in that period of time as compared to say a 45 minute workout.
Think about weight training. If you use the formula force=mass*acceleration.........well, you are generating a lot more power and thus working your body harder if you move weights faster during positive motions.
And of course I get my body nice and hot before a workout, makes me much more supple. Good technique, yep, I keep an eye on that.
Wow, do you just have an eye on getting huge and strong (nothing wrong with that)??? I mean, if you shorten your workout and cut way back on the rest periods you will gain endurance. But then I digress, probably a lot of hot chicks to gawk at.
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