5 specific tips to speed up your workout

This was taken recently in Maui at the beautiful  Wailea Golf course.

1.     Combine your exercises

Your goal, whether it be to gain lean muscle or to burn fat, should be to break down your muscle as much as possible in as little time as possible. I used to be under the impression that super-sets and giant-sets had a negative effect on building muscle, but as usual, back then I was wrong.

Combine two, three, even four exercises into one set. You can do this by focusing on 1 muscle group, which is what I normally do, or up to a different muscle group per exercise. I’ve gained 30+ lbs of lean muscle by combining my exercises into mainly giant sets (3 exercises done back-to-back-to-back) and am both leaner, more muscular and in better shape than ever before.

I’m also spending a maximum of 4 hours in the gym each week, 3 hours more often than not.

2.     Shorten your rest periods

This may seem like a no-brainer, shortening your rest periods to shorten up your workout, but few people actually stay true to their rest periods. I’ll have a rest period of 60 seconds to even as short at 15 seconds in between sets.

If I’m doing a really short rest period, it’s because I’m combining 3 exercises together and instead of doing them back-to-back-to-back as a giant set with 60 seconds rest at the end, I’ll take the 15 seconds of rest after every exercise and keep this short rest period up for the whole workout.

Believe me, try this and you’ll be completely gassed after even a 30 minute workout. Read the rest of this entry »