10-12-16, 08:14 PM | |
Join Date: Oct 2007
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I'm not sure what you consider to be "long" workouts - I get my best results by consistently working out 6-7 days a week for 50 - 65 minutes or so. I work hard and am sweaty after every workout, but they aren't what I would call very intense. My problem with doing 60+minute, super intense workouts on a regular basis is I always end up injured in some way.
I think the best thing is to mix harder, longer workouts in with shorter, less intense workouts unless you're super fit or training for an event. Edited to add that by results I mean fat loss, muscle strength and definition, and feeling energized and happy, not wiped out and achey. |
10-12-16, 08:16 PM | |
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New Jersey
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Unfortunately, yes. But that's just not my life anymore. My results are still good but honestly, they are better with longer, harder workouts. I'm also one of those oddballs that harder workouts make me eat less. Except for Imax 3.
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10-12-16, 08:36 PM | |
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Maybe this has to do with our age? And how we age? I started out with long and hard workouts 30 or so years ago, and now I just scaled down and I still get "results", just not the same results I was expecting when I was 20-30 years old?
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10-12-16, 10:00 PM | ||
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Southern California
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10-12-16, 10:03 PM | |
Join Date: Oct 2007
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What's the saying - it's not the years, but the miles? I did two decades of long, very intense workouts, and during that time broke a foot, had two knee surgeries, and a shoulder injury. All of those come back to haunt me now if I try to do the long, intense workouts on a regular basis. I think it's age + old injuries.
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10-12-16, 10:09 PM | |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Another vote for consistency! Long, hard, intense workouts leave me sore and hungry.
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10-12-16, 10:21 PM | |
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Shanghai, China
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I feel like the exception in these conversations, because I'm ramping back up after a few years of being too busy to exercise.
I've always been prone to on-and-off cycles, but I resolved that I'd use turning 50 to be in the best shape of my life. Yes, longer and more intense workouts give me better results. Over the last year I've built muscle, endurance and flexibility. I feel alive in my body. I've done it gradually. A year and a half ago I was at beginner intensity and an hour would wipe me out. Now I'm (upper) intermediate and an hour is normal, plus sometimes a bit extra for abs or a short yoga practice. It has made me hungrier. I make sure to eat breakfast, and if I don't get an afternoon snack it can put my after-work workout at risk. But not eat-the-world hungrier. So, in my case, more is more. YMMV. |
10-12-16, 10:36 PM | |
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: North Carolina
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I agree with working out consistently, as well. For me, I would much rather do "feel good" workouts than really long and/or intense. Not to say that I don't do those on occasion, but if I do them too often, I tend to start dreading my workouts and getting burned out quicker. Also, if I work out too hard on a regular basis, I may start taking more "days off", and my consistency goes right out the window.
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