Workout lenght

Hey there,

I was told that the time I take to complete H1 + H2 workouts (50 mins w/o warmup) has room for improvement, and I think that driver of that could be wrist PEs.

I usually do 5 sets of 5 reps of each of the 4 wrist PEs resting 10 secs between each set.

Should I do no rest at all between wrist sets?

As I could understand, a workout can be too long?

Hi Etienne,

I heard that HS workouts (inc. H2) range from 20-30 mins or so, and since I was doing it at 50, just wanted to check how could I lower my time

1 hour ago, Felipe Garcia Rosa said:

Hi Etienne,

I heard that HS workouts (inc. H2) range from 20-30 mins or so, and since I was doing it at 50, just wanted to check how could I lower my time

Well, for your handstand and press handstand progressions, you sure need to do them without any rest since iM are for this.  

For the wrists exercises, I take just enough break to say I took one.  So, it could last 10-15 seconds before starting another set.  I try to compress my break times as much as I can. 

However, I was also asking the question because 1 workout could last up to 2 hours for me.  Starting from warm-up to cool down -including cardio- and I usually take 2 workouts or 3 (either foudation 7 or handstand + stretch + movement...).  I am wondering if, this, is too long?

You do not need to rush HS or pHS skill work. Rest as necessary. I pretty much go between the two at a fairly lazy pace and is the time I'm allowed to search for a song on my ipod

For wrists, where are you in the progressions? Right now I am doing a giant set of 10 each, in the kneeling pushup variant (because I find it the best controlled stretch), and just bang out the 30 pushups at a steady cadence with hand shifts until the wrist rockers (which change my position a little). Obviously this is after you've established good ROM and condition in your wrists, but I now do these every training day and never have wrist issues. Once you have built a base of work it is preferable to streamline and up frequency (compare this to the warmup sets of Foundation elements before Rings).

In regards to overall time per workout I get out in about an hour from both my upper+core and my lower+hs+phs. I add stretching after the latter workout for around another 45 mins. 

If you are improving and you like 2 hr workouts with the addition of cardio and whatnot there's no real issue I guess. It would feel lengthy to me though, at the volume I'm working.

Thanks for your answers. For me not too long because you are doing more workouts plus stretch. If I do skill (hs phs) I do not warmup much, and cool down as usual 10 mins.

I dont do cardio as in running or rope jumping, but do SLS PE 6 and FL PE 1.

thats seems similar times as I have Jon so good. Of course if I do like you On the wrists I would injure myself lol. I am at PE2-3 and SE2 on rocks. But will do that when I reach that level! Been doing that 7 months or so

2 hours ago, Jon Douglas said:

If you are improving and you like 2 hr workouts with the addition of cardio and whatnot there's no real issue I guess. It would feel lengthy to me though, at the volume I'm working.

Sometimes it feels heavy, but I don't like doing less, it feels like incomplete.  It's probably psychological.

As long as it's working there's no real need to overanalyse it