This morning (ok it’s still morning) my first client was telling me that Madonna’s trainer is now working with Gweneth Paltrow. Gweneth was apparently talking about how she works out for an hour and 45 minutes – 6 days per week.
Do you have the resources or TIME for that?
Does it take that much time and effort to lose fat?
Trainers all over the country are still training their clients for 60 minutes. Who came up with that? It may be due to the little we knew, compared to today, about the acute and chronic adaptations the body goes through depending on time, intensity, etc. What we thought was absolute truth about our physiology and how are bodies react to exercise has changed.
Think of how far we have come from doing the same old boring 8 – 10 Nautilus machines at the gym.
You, however, are in the know. If you weren’t before…now you are.
You can get it done in less time and get better results doing it.
My 10 minute whole body workouts are making waves, big waves. In fact, the guys from Beach Body now have informercials on television for a 10 minute workout system and Bob Greene (Oprah’s) trainer has also released an in your home 10 minute workout plan.
Try one of my workouts and see how doing 4 complex (big) movements back to back for 10 minutes will leave you feeling like you did workout for an hour and 45 minutes!
- Squats
- Push ups
- Rows
- Jumping Jacks
10 reps each for as many rounds as possible.
This simple example of one of my workouts is what has spawned over 11 months worth of workouts on my site.
You are busy. You don’t have a celebrity trainer. You do have the desire to make a change and that is where it all starts.
10 minutes. Workout. Win.
September 26, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I have been known to work out for a couple of hours multiple times per week…rarely 6 days of 2 hour workouts, but if you added up all of the working out during the day I’ve definitely had weeks (or even months) that came out to 2+ hours every day.
I wasn’t (and still don’t) workout for general fat loss, though. I train for performance in competition, and 10 minutes as a general rule isn’t going to do the trick for me (although I do some 10 minute workouts in strategic places.)
My guess is that Madonna and Paltrow need to work out for that long because they need their bodies to look a specific way for their careers, whereas a general person just wants to look “good”…the specifics aren’t as exacting.