Or if not better, is it just as good?
Lets discuss the nuances.
It may be easier to fit short sessions between other obligations and activities.
Miss one of those, and youve only done, say, 75% of your workout.
You’ll approach each exercise cold, instead of still being warmed up from the previous one.
It can be nice to do a workout, clean up, and know that youre done.
Do you think youll bemorelikely orlesslikely to do four mini workouts than one big one?
Thats a decision only you might make.
A lot of recent research has considered ways to get people to exercise more to improve their health.
Onestudyhad older adults do a 10-minute, no-equipment workout twice a day.
Short workouts are definitely doingsomething, and are a hell of a lot better than nothing.
So-called greasing the groove can help you get better at a specific exercise, like pull-ups.
Many people have found this helped them get better at the exercise, likely for two main reasons.
One is volume: two pullups an hour for six hours is 12 reps of pullups.
Each set might be easy, but they add up.
Strength exercises arent just about the size of your muscles; they also involve a skill component.
What happened when I tried splitting up my own workouts
That’s a lot of theory.
How does this work in practice?
I gave it a try myself, and I have two stories to share.
First, Ive been doing a grease-the-groove protocol with a kettlebell exercise for months now.
I swear my shoulders feel healthier, and I know Ive gotten better at this particular exercise.
These days, I do 24 for an easy double, three times a day, no warmup required.
I was done with my mini workout long before he was done with his.
A bit later, I did the next exercise, three sets of sit-ups.
Later, I did my supersets of pull-ups and dips.
This is a workout that I normally find pretty intimidating, because it can end up taking a while.
(It involveseightsets of pull-ups and dips.
I mean, come on.)
I had split everything up already, so what would it hurt to do the circuit the next morning?
But today is “the next morning,” and I still havent done it.
Ill get around to it later.
