
Originally Posted by
beenie
Actually I do the gym 6 days/wk on average. I try to go every day, but seems like i miss once a week cause I am either tired (which I figure is my body's way of telling me I need rest) or something comes up.
Someone in this thread said that ideally workouts should not exceed 1 hour. This is something that I have been hearing for years but it doesn't seem to line up with reality. The guys in MY gym that have the GREAT bodies seem to be there every day for 3 or 4 hours. I doubt that they do much other than work out (don't they have jobs???) but the bottom line is that these are the ones that always look the best. I have never seen anyone with a great physique that follows the book and does 4 one-hour work outs. I am not saying it doesn't exist, I am just saying it's not consistent with what I have seen.
It reminds me of the common wisdom a few years ago that was promoting high carbs and the food pyrimid. All the books said to do it, and it is what all the magazines were promoting, but the guys who were really cut were the ones on high protien low carb diets (notwitstanding a couple 20 year olds who seemed to be able to eat anything and look cut).