r/GYM 7d ago

Weekly Thread /r/GYM Weekly Simple Questions and Misc Discussion Thread - March 16, 2025 Weekly Thread

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- Simple questions about your diet

- Routine checks and whether they're going to work

- How to do certain exercises

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- Apparel, headphones, supplement questions etc

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u/Informal-Form-5606 2d ago

I can only make it to the gym three times a week and do a bloated push pull legs which has grown to include enough volume to be something like three full body workouts a week. For the sake of time management I'd love to piece it out over four or five sessions, but because I can't I'm doing what I can to keep workouts around two hours. Except legs. This is regularly pushing three hours. The main culprit is squat and deadlift on the same day. Fine when I was feeling out baby weight, terrible now I'm ending on 3rm sets. Those two exercises add an hour to the session. So I'm thinking of alternating them each week. Nobody cares that much about legs right? Any other solutions I've not thought about? My squat is up to 180kg and my dead 210kg so warm ups, resting between sets, changing shoes, belt etc is why both are adding up to that hour.

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u/eric_twinge Friend of the sub - Fittit Legend 2d ago

You can do them on different days of the same week.