5 Quick Tips to Cut Your Workout Routine Time in Half

Two of the most prevalent reasons people give up on exercising are lack of time and lack of motivation.

Lack of time is obvious - we live in a fast-paced, high stressed environment where life constantly intrudes to cut how much time we have to devote to ourselves.

Lack of motivation is a bit harder: In order to get geared up to exercise, you need to change the way you think about yourself. Due to lack of time, you always cut yourself short. Everything else motivates you more than yourself and in that, your motivation wanes and disappears.

If you deal with the first problem, lack of time, first, the second one will follow. While you want to exercise, let's face it, you don't have more than an hour tops to devote to it unless you don't work or have no friends or family. If you're not obsessed with working out, one hour is probably your limit.

First, the good news. This will take you no more than 45 minutes, 3 times a week to accomplish. Now, the bad news, you must do it consistently to get the best results.

So, let's go through how you can accomplish a complete exercise workout in 45 minutes.

Tip #1 - Perform Supersets

Non-competing supersets are two exercises for two different muscle groups, usually utilizing contrasting movements like a push and a pull. In that way, you'll have one group of muscles working while the other rests.

Tip #2 - Improve Your Warm Up

Forget the treadmill for 10 minutes. You'll want to substitute bodyweight exercises and then move to specific warm-up sets for your first two exercises. Why not the treadmill, you ask? It does nothing but allow you to walk. It prepares you to do nothing else, so unless your workout consists of walking for 45 minutes, it's not useful.

Tip #3 - Combine Dumbbell and Bodyweight Exercises

Your supersets should be a combination of dumbbell and bodyweight exercises reducing the amount of time you spend changing dumbbell weights.

Tip #4 - Choose Intervals Instead Of Cardio

Recent research has shown that interval training works much better for weight loss rather than slow cardio workouts. Intervals take half as long to accomplish, so you accomplish your goal and save time.

Tip #5 - Avoid Isolation Exercises Whenever Possible

Multi-muscle exercise like pulls, pushes, squats and rows are better for fast workouts. If you can add some dropsets for your arms and shoulders. When time is of the essence, isolation exercises should be eliminated in favor of more multi-muscle exercises.

Avoid spending more than 30 minutes per week on direct ab training, spend that time more on overall body conditioning using these five tips, and you'll see an incredible improvement!