Body
No time to exercise during the week? No problem. Carve out 40 minutes per weekend to build a strong, lean body.
Few concepts capture the American man's imagination as much as the
weekend warrior: Freed from the shackles of workaday life, he uses
Saturday and Sunday to catch up with family, soothe the soul, and cram
a week's worth of missed exercise into just two days. In reality,
however, less than 3 percent of us live up to this ideal, according to
researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This, of
course, is unfortunate, especially since less than 50 percent of us get
the government's recommended dose of 90 minutes of exercise per week
because we're "too busy," according to a recent study at the University
of Pittsburgh. But don't lose hope. "If you can set aside 20 minutes on
Saturday, and 20 minutes on Sunday, you can still build muscle and lose
weight," says trainer Mike Boyle, owner of Mike Boyle Strength &
Conditioning, in Winchester, Massachusetts. The caveat: You also need
to schedule 10 minutes at home on Wednesday to lock in your gains. "But
that's it," says Boyle. "The key is to increase your workout density,
without compromising muscle performance." Here's how.
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