fortitude flexibility

[Scott Stevenson]

I dont know whether anyone else has the same issue but i am a father so after my 9-5 i dont like spending any longer than an hour in the gym 4 days a week i have been doing FT for 6 weeks now and love it but the sessions are lasting around 80-90 minutes which is putting pressure on home life . i know there is 3 day split alternative but I like training 4 times in a week, i hate rushing the end of my workout or skipping stretches to get done faster. anyone have any ideas?

Hey Bud!

A couple things could be done here;

1.) After finishing training for a muscle group, move right to the warm-up for your next muscle group, do the 1st warm-up set and THEN the stretch for what you just trained. (Don't worry about missing out on any metabolic stress with the stretch here. ) This will have you stretching when you'd be resting between warm-ups.

2.) Focus on bilateral stretches vs. doing one limb / side at a time.

3.) Pick your exercises such that you spend less time loading / unloading if at all possible. This is what slows me down the most, esp. on loading set days. It can help a good bit with MR's E.g., do a unilateral leg press MR instead of bilateral. This might mean using 4plates side instead of 8-10.

[I'm guessing from the thread title that it's the stretches that you think slow you slow the most?...]

The Family Man Plan (3x/ week) was made specifically for this kind of situation.

-S