Only Have 15 Minutes to Workout? UncleBod Feels Your Pain

I find myself in the same predicament at least once a week due to a busy schedule and horrible planning: I need to exercise, but I've only given myself a 15-20 minute window to squeeze in a workout.

In these moments, it feels so natural to let the flow of the day quietly drag you into a bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos as your workout window becomes fogged with orange dust. But if you can push through the urge not to push anything, for just 10-15 minutes, you can crush your workout and wear those cheesefingers proudly afterwards.

A typical workout consists of a handful of exercises, typically geared toward one muscle group or a full-body structure. These movements are performed 2-3 times consecutively, for a set amount of reps, and then you move on to the next movement once Kathy quits hogging the machine for her cable Kegel crunches.

Assuming you're physically fit enough to exercise, you can significantly reduce the duration of your workout by stacking 2-3-4 exercises together and taking your Kool-Aid breaks at the end of each round. (***if you have any health issues, please ask your doctor before you start doing anything intense - I shouldn't have to tell you this, but hopefully now you can't sue me)

You won't need a ton of weight - it starts to get heavy pretty quickly once you get to that 3rd - 4th exercise. Don't worry about your "performance" - the muscle growth here is stimulated by keeping the muscle fibers under constant tension, not by the amount of weight or reps you can force up.

This method will not only save you time, it'll provide similar muscle growth (possibly even MORE growth by hitting the muscles with something new), and by minimizing rest periods, your heart rate will spend more time in fat-burning mode, both during the workout and after.

*The workout in the video is a sample shoulder workout in which I did 2 rounds of 3 different exercises each. You can apply this to any muscle group (biceps: reverse curl, regular curl, wide grip curl, etc.) or you can cycle thru a full body workout and hit each muscle group once per round.

Shoot me an email at robbie@unclebod.com if you have questions about setting up your routine or any of the specific exercises mentioned.

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