Gym rat?

I hate to consider myself a gym rat- I spend at about an hour working out in-gym every day with another 30 minute ab and butt routine at home, but in my defense, I'm pretty bored otherwise.
Anyway, I want to hear about your routines- what works for you and what doesn't?

I've heard a few times that I need to concentrate on one of two muscle groups per workout, but I'm very easily tired of the monotony that brings. I'd love some ideas for different exercises....

hello there

I agreee with you about what you say about monontony of just concentrating on one or two muscle groups at a time. I understand why some people do it this way but it's not neccessarily better than doing everything at once, just as long as you give your muscles a break of 24 hours. Do what feels right for you. I work out pretty much every day.

2 hours cycle at home - 30 min moderate pace, toilet break, 30 min moderate pace, toilet break, 40 min sprint, toilet break then 20 min easy pace with 3 min cool down.


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...continuationEvery other day I go to the gym and work upper and lower body muscles and concentrated ab work. I stretch before and after all my exercises. Ab work - I lie on my back, knees up to my chest, holding heavy ball above knees then do three sets of 30 reps of legs out-stretched, arms up and over head so I'm out straight then bring knees up to chest with ams back over head brought down to knees - repeat 30 times! I find it's really effective on triceps and abs.

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...continuationI then go and do 20 mins on the coss-trainer then 20 mins on the stepper. I really enjoy the feeling of movement and making my body burn. I feel so alive and grounded. I think because I live with depression when I'm not exercising I can feel very disconnected to the world and shut out from everything around me. Exercise gives me the feeling of being more able to deal with stuff in general.

My number one exercise of all time has to be swimming - absaloutly adore it. The pain in the butt is I have bouts of sciatica and swimming tends to trigger it. I don't swim much anymore but yeah, I still yearn to have my own swimming pool! I'd be interested to know about your ab and butt routine.

bye

Here is a tip that some one showed me about how to make your muscles look big. On the same day that you work a muscle make sure you work both sides. For instance if you work your biceps and do the reps, right after that do the triceps do not wait until the next time as some do. In order to make them look big it is usually the muscle that are behind it that make it look larger....Think about that!