One of your mantras is , uh , you know , if you want to look like an athlete train like an athlete and I think that's something really special that sets aside what you do from what a lot of other , um , very well qualified people do . And in terms of the use of weights and resistance , whether or not it's body weight or weights in the gym or pulleys versus cardio , you know , in terms of overall health , aesthetics and athleticism , is there a way that you could point to , you know , the idea that maybe people should be doing , you know , 50% resistance training and 50% cardio , maybe it's 7030 maybe it's 3070 . And , and here I'm talking about the typical person who would like to maintain or maybe even , um , add some muscle mass , probably in particular areas for most people as opposed to just overall mass .
I mean , it's , those are good numbers because those are the kind of numbers that we usually preach , we try to keep our workouts to an hour or less if possible . Now , depending upon the split that you're following , if you're on a total body split , there's just gonna be more that has to be done in a given amount of time . Um That and again , if you're training primarily for strength , that could prolong the workout cause the longer rest time in between sets .
And as you said , the aesthetic goals like that will shift dramatically . But if you want to see the benefits of both , that's probably the , the effective dose for strength training and the effective dose for conditioning at the bare minimum level . Again , being a much better performer , conditioning wise , you're gonna wanna do more than that .
What's the sort of contour of a basic program that anybody could think about as a starting place ? Um , I , I think it's like a 6040 split , which would be leaning towards , uh , weight training , you know , strength and , and , and , uh , and then , you know , the conditioning aspect be about 40% . So if you look at it over the course of a training week , I mean , five days in a gym would be a great task , you know , obviously not in the gym , it could be done at home , but three days strain training Monday , Wednesday , Friday conditioning , Tuesday , Thursday , you know , two days , it's a , it's a pretty easy roundabout way to split that up , of course , depending upon training goals .
And , and here I'm talking about the typical person who would like to maintain or maybe even , um , add some muscle mass , probably in particular areas for most people as opposed to just overall mass . Although we'll talk about that later and people want to maintain a relatively low body fat percentage and be in good cardiovascular health . What's the sort of contour of a basic program that anybody could think about as a starting place ?
