Garage Gym Chronicles: 04/12/2025 Training Log. Pull, Squat, Biceps

Garage Gym Chronicles: 04/12/2025 Training Log: Pull, Squat, Biceps

Today's session was a quick, late night (8:30pm/2030), quasi-full body session.

I love the flexibility of this style of training. I was tired after a long day and it was late, so I just did 2 sets of 3 exercises and had a great, high quality, muscle building – albeit – brief workout.

For whatever reason people always falsely believe that muscle building (aka "bodybuilding") workouts must be long, exhausting, and – in other words – unreasonable for long term consistency.

This is totally false.

Building Muscle requires appropriate stimulus, effort, and recovery. Lower volume means you can train harder and more frequently. Higher volume works fine, as well, but you'll probably need to either train less frequently or set aside much more time to train and spend some energy getting yourself psychologically ready for each session.

There are many ways to build muscle. All of them require consistent practice, effective exercises to stimulate the muscles, and getting stronger in the moderate to higher rep ranges (you can build muscle with lower rep ranges, like 1-5 reps per set, but it's less efficient, requires more sets, and, as a result, requires more time available to train per session).

Here's the workout:

Warm up: single leg calf raises x12/12

Ex 1: pullups-8,7

Ex 2: Bulgarian split squats-2x6/6

Ex 3: incline dumbbell curls-11,7

Total Time = 17 minutes, 30 seconds

Next session will be focused on push, hinge, and triceps. I'll do 2-3 sets per exercise.

This is an easy approach to living the 30 minute physique lifestyle and look great without the inconvenience of spending lots of time in the gym/garage each session.