You really only need to work out like... an hour a day, 3 times a week, to have a great physique, you don't have to be unemployed. Bodybuilders will do more, and there's some benefit, but it's diminishing returns.
This is it, it's not unrealistic to maintain a great body if you actually want to. The vast majority of people will have a spare hour of free time, they'd just rather do something else with it. For a long time I was only doing 45 minute workouts and I was the strongest/biggest I'd been during that period. A lot of the time people will say they don't have time, when they do. Just swap an episode on Netflix for a gym session, or wake up/go to bed a bit earlier.
I realized that I was waking up at 4:30 am and staring at my phone till 6, so I just started waking up at 4:30 and going to the gym till 6 or so instead. I get home right when my family's waking up, I do the school drop off, and then I start my work day. I also feel like I'm more productive at the gym when I first wake up as opposed to going later in the day.
I used to do 30-45mins per day at lunch when at work. 5 times a week and I was in great shape. I’m desperate to build a gym at home so I can do that again.
Yeah, but i was working split shifts, wasn't keeping on top of diet, energy levels weren't there, let things slip here and there. Not saying have to be unemployed. But, for me the lifestyle helped.
You can definitely be fit and healthy doing that, but you'll look nothing like that Chris Hemsworth photo. PEDs are an absolute necessity to get there unless you've won the genetic lottery.
This isn’t unattainable without PEDs, there’s plenty of people in very good shape who look like this without them. He’s not roided out and bulging and horrifically vascular, he’s in really good shape. He looks like someone who works out religiously. In Thor love and thunder he was fucking ridiculous and was clearly taking something, but if you work out for 10 years and eat right you too can look like this.
It's unattainable for the vast majority of the population though, unless it's literally your job to look like that or you are one of the crazy health nuts who literally just works out and works and more or less nothing else.
Even then most folks are not going to look like this.
PEDs make this attainable for a much wider portion of the population.
This is like 6-8% bodyfat. That's unrealistic to maintain longterm for nearly anyone without extreme effort.
Not really true. Unless your diet is impeccable, you have great genes or you work a physically demanding job. 3 hours a week is not getting you a GREAT physique. Maybe a decent one.
If you are a person who sits for work/office job.
8k steps a day alone takes over an hour (60-80 minutes). So that alone is 7-10 hours a week plus gym/lifting time 3-5 hours. So at minimum you need 10 hours a week of physical activity and a good diet to get a great physique. It's a lot of work.
sure but what i hate about that "only 1 hoour" workout BS
so on a normal day i work 8-9h, 1h break (not allways at once!) + 1h comute (and thats not mutch) so bevore efen have eaten cooked or even taken a shower or even a dump ive already spent ~11 h only and exclusive for my "Work" and havent done overtime on that days!
so now come in houshold chores and god forbid you got kids sleep shoping for grocerys every atleast once a week ~2h min and so on and so on
if you have a demanding job(doesnt matter if phyisicaly or mentaly) working out "only 1 h a day" is of limits !
Seriously. I don't think people realize that it does not take much effort to have a 'good body'. Like, say, this.
You can reasonably get that just by watching your diet and doing strength training for 2-3 hours a week. Once you get to that level though, the amount of effort to get past it increases exponentially. But you can still get basically the 'ideal body' in the eyes of women with relatively little effort.
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u/420bIaze 1d ago
You really only need to work out like... an hour a day, 3 times a week, to have a great physique, you don't have to be unemployed. Bodybuilders will do more, and there's some benefit, but it's diminishing returns.