am I the only person who’s never heard that workouts have to be an hour? I’ve heard the old dogma that workouts shouldn’t be longer than an hour, which is stupid.
As for PT appointments being an hour, well it’s always been my experience that any appointment tends to be in either an hour, or half hour increment.
I think another interesting thing going on in this thread, is that if Thibs really believes that you only need 20 mins to work out, why don’t ALL of his programs only take 20mins?
Perhaps the fact that Thibs wrote a 20 minute workout doesn’t really prove anything…
I actually believe the OP is just trying to start an argument for the sake of it.
My favorite fitness rule is that you must do cardio for 20 minutes before you burn any fat. Then everybody does 20 minutes of cardio and calls it Cool.
I’ll just reiterate what seems to have gotten lost.
What is your end goal?
If it’s general fitness then perhaps abbreviated sessions and other job. If your plan is maximum physique hyperophy, you’re gonna be hard pressed to find anyone, competitor, coach
, weekend warrior who has had that type of success with wht you’re proposing.
And as has been mentioned, rest periods that Have some effect in n each successive sets’ performance factor into training time as well.
What question did you ask me here? I asked you how am I misleading, and you still haven’t answered me. 3rd time asking you the same question. Answer me and I will answer your question.
I never advised people to do a 20min lifting session or state coaches recommend it, although Christian Thib has a 20min program… I stated it is possible.
Also never said 20min lifting sessions are better.