30-minute gym workouts?

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Hi peeps!

I have discovered that between me finishing work and me picking OH up from work, I have a 30-minute gap (excluding changing times etc) and intend to spend this at the gym.

Does anyone know of any good intense workouts for this amount of time? I like variety, not just running etc.

HBS x

belfastgirl23

Kettlebells are your best bet if you're time limited. You can pack in quite an intense workout in even 15 minutes and you certainly get sweaty!

katgirlie

If you have a 'Curves' gym nearby, they only do 30 min workouts. 30 seconds on each 'station', twice round the circuit and you're done. Only any good if you've got one between your workplace and your OH's workplace though I guess!!

NigeWick

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Does anyone know of any good intense workouts for this amount of time? I like variety, not just running etc.

You could do worse than look at You Are Your Own Gym. I bought the iPad version that even has videos of the exercises. Don't need a gym membership and it is as intense as you want to make it. It is still too much for me but I will get there in the end.

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Sadly I don't have a Curves I may well have a look at that NigeWick!

In the meantime I checked out NerdFitness, which advocates paleo eating (I'm semi-paleo anyway) and heavy, heavy lifting mixed with cardio.

I can but try

HBS x

DietIrnBru

I do metafit classes at my gym - 30 min in length - does your gym maybe offer these. I guarantee they will tire you out.

NigeWick

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In the meantime I checked out NerdFitness, which advocates paleo eating (I'm semi-paleo anyway) and heavy, heavy lifting mixed with cardio.

Can you do handstand pressups? Can you do one legged pistol squats? Can you do pull ups and chin ups with someone hanging off your shoulders? That's quite heavy lifting IMHO.

Can you run 200 yards in 20 seconds, three times in quick succession? That would be quite cardio.

Research is showing it's the intensity of our exercise that builds us up, not how long we do it for.

I eat Primal Lite. Five days a week I walk a mile or so to town, go from shop to shop and carry the purchases home in a rucksack. Once or twice a week, I will sprint a few times on my way to town. Once or twice a week, I try and lift heavy things, me. The longest my intense workouts take is 15 minutes and I'm cream crackered.

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Thing is, I will be at a gym. Thus, I need gym-based exercises, that's the point.

Handstand press ups, yes, btw. Others, not so much

HBS x

miduck

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Thing is, I will be at a gym. Thus, I need gym-based exercises, that's the point.

Handstand press ups, yes, btw. Others, not so much

HBS x

What are you looking to achieve from the sessions? Could you not ask a trainer at the gym to put something together for you?

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I asked the gym staff - to sum it up if I say I want to build compact, dense muscle, they send me to the rowing machine. None of the trainers at the gym I go to are used to intense stuff - it's all "To lose weight you must run" and "Women should lift small weights with high reps" (which is baloney).

I want to lift heavy, sprint fast, and have a massively stable core. NerdFitness is helping - and in February when work times change again I'm gonna do another Insanity round

Thanks for all the replies so far!

HBS x

Jei70

Another heavy lifting (i.e. intense, but short workout) is the Body by Science programme. I do that once a week and my fitness has improved a lot! Albeit, I was pretty unfit before I recommend you read the book, or at least the articles on their website.