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By Hugo Rivera, About.com Guide to Bodybuilding since 2005

Bodybuilding Workout: Get In Shape Using Short Bodybuilding Workouts and Minimum Equipment

Thursday July 9, 2009
The biggest excuses for not performing any bodybuilding training is lack of time to workout and lack of equipment. However, let's take a look at these excuses more closely.

How many hours do we have in one day? Unless I am wrong, I believe there are still 24 hours in one day. Each hour is composed of 60 minutes each. Granted, 8 of them we spend sleeping (or at least we should). Therefore, we end up with 16 hours left. Do you know what that means? It means that if we work out for an hour a day we have 16 opportunities to get a workout in. Now, if you are really tight on time, great workouts can be achieved in 30 minutes as well. Performing 30 minute bodybuilding workouts means that we have 32 opportunities to get a workout in. Can you imagine?! 32 opportunities to workout!

From my experience in working with clients, most people just want to lose fat and firm up a bit using bodybuilding. For this group of folks, certainly 30 minutes is more than enough. If people would invest this minimum amount of time into themselves, not only would the whole population look better, but everyone would also feel more energetic and have much less health problems.

Now, I can hear that the second biggest excuse for not getting your bodybuilding workouts in is: "I don't have access to a gym or equipment". My comment back is "where there is a will there is a way".

To be honest, you don't need any expensive equipment to be able to get in shape. All you need at the very least is pair of adjustable dumbbells like the Powerblocks or the Ironmaster dumbbells. They don't occupy that much space, so please don't give me the "I don't have enough space in my house" type of excuse.

In the articles below, you will find several bodybuilding routines that are short and that use minimum equipment. Implement any of them and see how your bodybuilding results will soar even though you will be spending very little of your day at the gym:
Comments
July 17, 2009 at 12:23 am
(1) karen says:

u give very good advise nd u made me think on exercise a whole different way!!!!!!!!!

July 31, 2009 at 6:04 am
(2) Body builder says:

I really like these advice as I don’t want to go in gym and wants to do workout in home..and this is really a simple way..
Could you tell something about diet for muscle building….

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