If You’re Under 30, Don’t Compete & Spend 2 Hours at the Gym, You’re a Fool. Period!

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Okay, I don’t know you.

I shouldn’t comment.

Yet, if you’re a man under 30 not looking to compete in any sport whatsoever, yet you spend 2 hours at the gym every day, you’re nothing but a fool.

And I will stick with what I said until….you sit and think about what I’m about to say.

If you try to train intense beyond 60 minutes, you miss out on fully reaping the benefits of testosterone in your body.

That’s the point I’ve to make.

Now, if you’re satisfied with this discovery, see ya in the next article. Bye!

But if you’re interested in going deeper into why I advise you against training hard for a long duration, stay here.

I will share all the perspectives, after which everything’s on you.

So, when you train hard and heavy, your body sees an increase in testosterone.

This helps you activate more muscle fibers, generate more force and move a lot of weight.

Great!

But this is short-lived — 15 mins to an hour (at max).

While this is long enough to give your body the boost it needs, it drops significantly after 60 minutes due to a buildup of lactic acid in your muscles and a rise in cortisol levels throughout your body.

Cortisol is the mother of all stress hormones. Once it creeps in, everything goes downhill from there.

It is not a bad hormone, inherently. It just prepares the scene for your body to recover by slowing down the levels of activity in the body.

You start feeling slower, exhausted and drained.

Naturally, your body would then prefer to save you from further muscle damage and reduce the level of force you can produce, etc.

This is exactly what happens when you go through 10 different machines, doing 10 different variations of an exercise, each hard and heavy (theoretically).

You think you are training hard, when in reality you’re just moving your limbs in different directions without giving your body the right stimulus it needs to grow.

You move from one exercise to another, partly exhausted and force yourself to generate more force. Where’s the logic?

In fact, the only thing guaranteed to happen in such a scenario is more muscle fatigue, poor form and posture, and a higher risk of injury.

Even if you come out safe, you end up half-assing your training because you could have done more work in less time with exercises that had a higher fatigue to effort ratio.

Instead, had you picked up one or two from a list of really simple exercises — Dips, Pushups, Military Presses, Pullups, Rows, Farmer Walks, Deadlifts, Squats or Lunges, you’d have achieved better results in less time.

How?

Because if you go hard and heavy on these exercises, you can only do them for a short period of time, say 15–20 minutes (30 at max).

They tax your entire body.

Not one or two muscles…the full body.

As a result they tire you out faster — at a muscular level as well as neurological level.

Depending on how hard you pushed, you’d see your body screaming for a longer and deeper sleep than usual.

Which means you’ll come out stronger, and better than before.

Then you’d go and do things a tad bit harder and repeat the cycle.

Each time you do this, you’d become incrementally better, until … .you reach where you’ve longing to be.

It is a much simpler, less frustrating, and more time efficient way of going about your workouts.

Why spend 2 hours every day trying to achieve something, which can be achieved with less than an hour’s worth of work every day.

Most people have been and still will continue with the previous method because of two reasons:

1. It doesn’t feel satisfactory otherwise,
2. It is comfortable training like everyone else does

In both of the cases, one is being lazy and uninterested. A fool!

If you were really serious about your goal, you would dare not do what is less than optimal.

You’d get to doing what is essential, right away.

Why would you not?

So, get up and do some pushups…now!

Then, wait for 1 minute, and do a few squats.

Then, wait for 1 more minute, and do some rows.

Keep doing one new exercise (from the list above), after every minute.

This way, you’d end up doing:

1. More work done in less time
2. With a variety of exercises.

This would give you three big benefits:

1. You’d build more muscle
2. You’d lose more fat per minute
3. You’d become stronger, leaner and fitter

All with less than 60 minutes of hard work every day.

In fact, if you can manage to reduce your total training time over a few weeks, while maintaining the same level of work/output, you’d get exponentially fitter, leaner and stronger.

Give this a try and get back to me in a couple of weeks.

We’ll see where you’d be.

You’re not a fool…all the best!