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Three to four hours a week is a useless instruction. The same target broken into 15 to 40 minute sessions and four movement buckets you can actually put in a calendar.
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by Adarsh Gopal
A common cause of retreat: I don’t have an hour straight any time of the day to train.
The most common recommendation for strength training is framed as 3-4 hours a week.
But here are a few ways to look at it through a more pragmatic and more easily digestible lens:
- 40 mins × 4-6
- 30 mins × 6-8
- 20 mins × 9-12
- 15 mins × 12-16
Over a 6 day week, you could aim for :
- 3-4 sessions of pushing and throwing
- 3-4 sessions of pulling and shoulder rotation
- 3-4 sessions of hip rotation, squatting and/or jumping
- 3-4 sessions of hinging, glute hams, thrusting and slide outs
A session is 15-20 mins long. And you can combine it.
I realised the nebulous recommendation to strength train 3-4 times a week is leaving too many people lost.
The above recommendations are far more specific. And I’ll flesh them out some more.