If you were extremely busy and could barely get a workout in...

[Mr.Dedication]

So lately I've been extremely busy and I have not been able to constantly go to the gym for few weeks. If I am lucky I'll get maybe 1-2 workouts in per week. I still do my cardio and keep my diet but won't be able to hit the weight for probably another 4 weeks.

So I know a lot of you guys on here are busy and have were tight schedules. If you could only get into the gym for 1, maybe 2x a week in the gym...what would be your workout routine?

[Curt James]

Mostly compound movements. Workout A and workout B.

A: Bench, rows, pulldowns
B: Squats, leg curls, presses

I work six days each week. Three jobs. Something like 60-65 hours. Still get to the gym four or five times per week. How busy are you?

Otoh, the weights I use don't really constitute a workout for many.

(kicks pink dumbbells out of view)

Hope the workload gets more manageable!

[Young Gotti]

at the end of my cut i was really busy and was having a hard time getting to the gym, so what i did was a bunch of movements using multiple muscle groups in a superset fashion so for example

push up with a dumbbell into a one armed row until failure supersetted into 20 seconds of battle ropes
pullups supersetted with dips...don't worry about the extra weights, just do bodyweight

[The Solution]

Squat / Bench / Deadlift
5x5 pyramid or something very short dealing with the big 3.

[swingslammer]

How about 10 to 15 minute workouts a few times a week?

I had a guy tell me before he could only workout 15 to 20 minutes a day so he didn't because it wouldn't be worth going. I told him "6 months from now you will have 6 months of short workouts......or 6 months of no workouts, which is better?". He said he had never even thought of it in that way.

[Young Gotti]

german volume training didn't take me long either, the rest periods are so short that you still might be able to throw some extra work in here or there

[Arthur Jones]

http://www.arthurjonesexercise.com/Bulletin1/5.PDF

[Mr.Dedication]

How about 10 to 15 minute workouts a few times a week?

I had a guy tell me before he could only workout 15 to 20 minutes a day so he didn't because it wouldn't be worth going. I told him "6 months from now you will have 6 months of short workouts......or 6 months of no workouts, which is better?". He said he had never even thought of it in that way.

I'm going to this for this exam. I would be at work from 7:30 to 4 and then studying at work from 4 to 10 or 11. But this time I'll try to go for at least 30 minutes a day. I mean it has to be very short breaks and back to back but still better than nothing.

This past 3 days I went and worked out and holy fuck my body loaths me right now. Every is sore and aches.