Trim Your Workout This Summer Without Sacrificing Results

 Trim Your Workout This Summer Without Sacrificing Results

If you’re running short on time this summer due to your involvement in many other activities such as volleyball teams, long cycle rides, or just getting out and going for a game of Frisbee with a buddy, chances are good that you’re looking for ways to cut down on gym-time.

It’s perfectly normal to find your motivation to get into the gym during the summer start to slip as there are just so many other things that you’d rather be doing outdoors.

Fortunately, you don’t have to let your workouts slip while you free up some spare time. You just need to know how to trim your workouts wisely so that you can cut back on your time investment without sacrificing results.

Let’s have a quick look at a few of the main things to know.

Exclude Isolation Exercises, Not Compound

The very first thing that you need to do if you’re going to trim your workouts for the coming summer season is to make sure that you drop out the isolation exercises, not the compound movements.

Compound movements are those exercises that are going to offer you the best overall results for your time invested, so you will want to make sure that you’re getting these in.

Perform your squats, deadlifts, lunges, rows, shoulder presses, bench presses, and so on.  Leave out the bicep curls, tricep extensions, lateral raises, or leg extensions. Those won’t bring you optimal results, so you can easily do without them.

Perform Full Out Sets

Second, also consider performing full out sets when you do perform the sets you do in the gym.

If you can make sure that the intensity stays high, you really only have to do one or two sets of each exercise. You can theoretically cut back on half the volume that you’re doing right now, as long as you maintain the weight on the bar, and still keep your fitness level intact.

You may not make as much progress as you otherwise would, but you will still see good results at preventing a loss in fitness level.

Decrease Your Rest Periods

Finally, the third thing that you can do to spare some extra time for yourself this summer is decrease the amount of rest you’re taking during those workouts as well. This tends to be great itself since it’ll help to boost your metabolic rate, which will then mean further fat loss at the time you need it the most – beach season.

Plus, by reducing your rest, you’ll get in and out of the gym faster, which is the primary goal during this time.

So there you have the main things to take note of this summer season. Focus on these with your workouts and you can still stay in great shape without having to devote hours and hours to gym workouts.