Most people do not know when to stop their workouts.
Some keep going until they complete a set number of repetitions.
Others keep going until they complete all their sets.
And yet others just keep looking at the time and keep going until their 90 minutes is complete.
All three methods are completely wrong.
Here's my method: choose how much work you want to do, and try to complete the work as quickly as possible.
This work might take anywhere from 5 minutes, to 50 minutes.
But the point is, try to complete your workout as fast as possible, especially if you want greater fat loss and muscle mass.
Why? The answer is really simple: to prevent over training.
Over training occurs not when you train too hard, but instead when you train too much.
Over training can be one of the most detrimental factors to your fitness.
It can actually slow down, or even reverse your results.
Some people claim that it's almost impossible to over train.
That's not true.
One of my training partners, Dominic, over trained severely last year.
He was performing my workouts, then he was going to the gym, plus he was playing basketball.
This wouldn't have been so bad if the workouts were spaced out.
However, he would perform one thing right after the other, right after the other, with only 20-30 minutes break in between.
He was barely eating (which is REALLY bad).
For example, one day he might go to the gym at 10 am, then come to me at 12 pm, then at 12:45 he would go play basketball.
Other days, the basketball was first.
But if you string all the workouts together in a succession, you're looking at 4-5 hours per training every day.
Now, that's too much.
I actually had to tell him to stop coming.
He ended up working out with me twice a week, two times in the gym, and 3-4 days of basketball.
Once again, his original training program wouldn't have been so bad if he spaced out the workouts more, ate more, and kept his gym workouts shorter, and to the point.