Following on from yesterday:
While I said that an hour per day six days per week is something any serious person could devote to training if they wanted to, there is some nuance here that’s worth exploring.
Specifically, if a person is lifting weights in most or all of their workouts, six days is probably going to be too much to handle, whereas the majority could probably handle the same frequency of bodyweight work, if they put their mind to it.
Why the discrepancy?
Simply because the practical demands of a weightlifting workout are far in excess of all but the most advanced bodyweight sessions.
There are weights to load, machines to set up, generally a broad variety of exercises and rep ranges to tackle (often requiring a calculator and spreadsheet to get right).
And that’s before we get into the execution of the movements themselves which, when training properly, require tremendous concentration from start to finish and also between sets as you evaluate what you’ve just done with a view to making tweaks if necessary, irrespective of whether you’re doing big lifts like squats and deadlifts or little lifts like curls and lateral raises.
I am not saying bodyweight movements are “easy” form-wise and that you don’t need to concentrate.
But I am saying it takes a whole lot less mental effort to get a solid, productive bodyweight session in than it does to complete any sensible lifting workout.
Hence, you can do a lot more of them in a week, which has a suite of advantages beginners and experienced trainees alike can benefit greatly from (dropping fat without resort to a stupid diet, forcing you to make training a truly non-negotiable part of your life, vast improvements to core movement patterns, a big boost to physical and mental toughness, etc, etc, etc).
All right, that will do for now.
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