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AstroStelar [he/him] @hexbear.net

Help/Resources with setting up a workout plan? Also warm-ups and stretching.

I'm tall, slim and at a beginner-to-intermediate level. My plan is to work out 3 days per week. My main aims are functional strength and calisthenics, supplemented by endurance and flexibility.

So I've been going to the gym since last August and up till now I've looked at individual bits and pieces of information, prepared a general sense of what to do and then kinda improvised when there.

My workout sessions are 2 hours yet I feel like I'm still missing things, maybe I'm just slow? I also 20 minutes on warm-up stretches to cover everything relevant for the day. I can't judge if that's too much and if so how to reduce it in both cases.

2 comments

  • It sort of depends on what you're going for, but for strength training 2 hours isn't crazy. That's how long it takes me to do mine which is a warmup, then two big exercises with 3 warmup sets and a 5x5 plus a 2 exercise superset x 4, followed by stretching.

    I switched to kettlebells for a while just because I got tired of being in the gym for so long, both simple and sinister and dry fighting weight can be run in 30 mins

    Gambetta's Athletic Development is a good resource for programming, particularly for the type of stuff you're after, especially the conditioning circuits