5 Simple Ways To Speed Up Your Workouts!

For those of you that are fighting through long sessions at the gym, here's 5 tips I've used to speed up my workouts!

1. Supersets.

These can really speed up your workouts, and give you a pretty awesome pump too. All you do is as you complete a set on one exercise, jump straight into the next exercise and blast out a set, then back to the first exercise.
I use it when training chest. So I'll do a set of incline dumbbell flyes to hit the upper chest, then straight into dips to hit the lower chest. It gets hard after maybe 2-3 sets, but it gives you a very rewarding pump, and it won't be too easy for you.

2. Take shorter breaks between sets.

This is a very good point in my book. I was training legs on Wednesday and there was a guy using the squat rack in my gym. He was having around 5 minute breaks between each set, and he wasn't really training that hard.
Because there is only one squat rack, there was a queue of people behind him waiting, and he just didn't seem to care!
I try to keep my rest periods under a minute. This way I am using my cardiovascular system as well as the muscle I'm training. It also means that nobody is waiting very long for the piece of equipemnt I'm using either.

3. Turn your phone off.

You only have to look around the gym to see this, and I'm not gonna lie, I am guilty of it sometimes too.
You finish your set and immediately your phone comes out of your pocket, your texting or looking at pointless information that you don't really need at that moment in time.
Unless I've started a new workout plan or I've got my earphones in, I've stopped taking it to the gym because it is just a distraction.

4. Intensity over duration.

Instead of plodding along for 30 minutes on the treadmill, swap it up for high intensity training. Sprint for 15 seconds, rest for 45, until you feel as though you can't do anymore.
It will take much less time, and in my opinion shows greater results.

5. Know what you are doing before you get there.

This is important really, and I'm sure most people already do this. You can save time by knowing exactly what exercises you are going to do before you even get to the gym.
I always decide exactly what I'm training, which exercises I'm going to use, and the intensity or rep range before I even set foot in the gym.
This also helps you to mentally prepare yourself.

I hope you have found this helpful and if you have any ways of speeding things up that I haven't mentioned, leave a comment!