I’m a busy dad with a small child but still manage to train 4 times a week.
However, I don’t have much time, so I only do one exercise per muscle group. One warm-up set, then 2 heavy sets (8–12 reps) to one rep from failure. I’ve gotten great results from this, but now I’m starting to feel the calorie deficit and I’m getting tired of lifting heavy. So I was thinking maybe you could combine low and high reps in the same exercise — has anyone tried it?
I’m thinking something like this:
Exercise 1: 1 warm-up set, 1 heavy set to 1 rep from failure (6–12 reps), then rest 3 minutes and do one final set at maybe 60% of the weight from set 2 to failure, around 20 reps. Then move on to the next exercise and do the same thing.
What do you think? Could this be the best of both worlds for a tired dad with limited time who only has time for one exercise per muscle group per session? Has anyone tried this and knows it works?
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