When It’s The Right Time To Use Circuit Training 

I do circuit training only. With a focus on a compound lift then shifting to accessory lifts with 60-90 seconds of rest in between each exercise with 12 reps on average for each lift. After finishing the circuit resting for 3-5 minutes then starting over for 4 sets.

I like to do a Push Pull circuit and it has helped build muscle fairly well for me. I had to do a fresh start as I had severe sepsis with necrotizing pancreatitis and cardiac arrest twice back in May. So those gains will plateau as I'm surely still a novice. Always plan a good workout! Love listening to you guys!

Circuit training is awesome and saves a ton of time. I can do a set of bench, then a set of abs, jump on the pull up bar, then a run up the street and back. Rest then do it again. Most people aren’t conditioned to do that type of training.

I like both and my curcuits are 30 minutes Mon - circuit Tue - chest / shoulders Wed - circuit Thur - back / arms Fri - legs Sat - circuit This has given me the best of both words and yes form matters a lot during the circuit

Thanks for the information ❤

People always say circuits or high intensity workouts make you lose size and strength but how do fighters move up weight classes and get stronger if they do high intensity workouts nearly every day

Been circuit training for 3 years now. You will get stronger but the physical muscle gains takes time. Make sure you’re eating enough calories to offset the deficit. For example, on Chest day I’ll do flat bench barbell, do a set of 10 Marine corps pull-ups, a set of 30 decline and, then a run up the street and back. That’s set 1. I’ll do about 6 sets of this then switch to incline and knock off the pull-ups and run but continue the abs and add the jump rope. 4 sets of this circuit and switch to push ups, keep the abs, and switch to assisted pull ups. You’re cardiovascular system will be crazy good, I can do 26 solid marine corps pull ups now, run half a mile in 2:25, and bench 225 for 16 times. I’m 5’11 185lbs with 9% bf. I don’t really look big wearing shirts except for my arms, most people think I’m an average person until they see my workout videos.

No gym membership. Working 50+ hours a week. House, GF and responsibilities. ( you get the point.) yeah circuit at home.

I like this content boys

RAMP UP THE INTENSITY

Or circuit after strength training for capacity building

Now if I do circuit training but I up the weight over time that would still build muscle wouldn’t it.

I do supersets of 7 exercises (idk if thats "circuit training"). 4 sets of 10 minutes with 3 minute rest. Definitely not to save time but as a break in my normal routine.(2-3 weeks) Huge pump and lactate.

They assume that all people are only interested in building as much muscle and strength as possible. If that’s the case then they’re right about what they said. But If you want to be as tough as bodybuilders look, then focus on things like circuit training.

I occasionally do circuit training and it builds muscle because if you train properly and do circuit training with all the muscles tie in you get a great pump and blood flow into your muscle such as super setting pull-ups with push-ups or and then going in this drugs and then immediately going in there show the presses and then doing like side laterals because you engorge blood into all the muscles that tie in together which will build muscle everybody is different but it does work you just have to be under control

Great for burning fat 💪😁🔥

I don't think circuit training means what i think it means... My workouts take hours, i go from one exercise to the next doing 6-25reps then resting for a couple minutes until I've done like 5-8 different exercises, then i rest some extra minutes and then i do another round, then i have an intra workout protein shake (45g protein, 3.7g leucine, 65g net carbs) before and during another round of the exercises, usually i don't do every exercise every round bc i vary them a lot and sometimes somedays some just don't seem effective enough(unless i don't rest from the previous exercise before) or i get to total failure after only 2 sets Today i did 23 push sets and bc i workout fasted and that intra wk meal is actually my breakfast, it fuels me like crazy so i added another 4 exercises: 2 biceps curl variations and 2 shoulder raises. And did 4 rounds of them with less but enough rest between them. When i finished i still felt like i could do more but it'd taken 2½hours of my day already (30min total active time on the 39 sets (≈45s/set)) so i quickly did what i think is meant when people talk about circuit training: some high incline bar push ups followed by triceps extensions(head to bar) then one arm bar biceps curls and some random ass moves with a barbell bar to strech my shoulders; with no rest at all between them, just as a cool down If i do 3 straight sets of deep push ups then i can't do bench presses at my max and there's no chance i can do triceps push ups either I do circuits/rounds bc then i can fail after a least a couple sets of each exercise instead of not being able to do any dips at all bc i already did diamond push ups

I do full body circuit strength training x5 days a week 🤷. Sometime I feel like I wanna puke mid session😂 I hate spending hours at the gym. I keep a timer going on my stopwatch and wait 45sec between sets*. I start with delts and alter upper, lower workouts. so shoulder press, leg curls, chest flys, leg extension, seated pull downs, squats, butterfly machine, calf raisers etc. I finish with tricep push downs, barbell arm curls, and dips but I don't rest between and instead just alter these for 3 sets till failure. I went from 65kg 4%body fat to 79kg 5%body fat in 4 months. 3 sets 6-8 reps rest 45sec between sets. I spend about 45min 4-5 days depending on soreness

That's so true. As a teenager all I did was circuit. I got Hella strong, but virtually no gains. My physique only looked impressive with my shirt off or if someone physically touched me they'd say "WTF are you made of?" At 23 I discovered regular weight training and my gains were so crazy people thought I was roided out. It was just the years of pinned up size catching up to my strength.

I do 13 exercises , 25 reps each , is this ok???

The studies disagree. If you do circuit training right..you don’t lose muscle building gains. But these guys are conflating training for only muscle building vs circuits…then yea you won’t make the same gains. It really depends on doing it the right way and its benefits are great especially for fat loss and muscle building if your goal is to be lean and functional…but if you are training to build a lot of mass..circuit training is not the way to go.

And also a lot of MMA Fighters do circuit training because it gives you strength and endurance when you are fighting you have to be strong and you have to have muscle endurance and cardio when you go from one exercises to another immediately it works so hard and your muscles at the same time more intensely can't go as heavy because you're going from 4:00 to 5 exercises immediately after the other one but it builds muscle endurance and bills muscle because of all the blood that is pumped into the muscles so I don't know everybody's different but it's amazing how these guys supposed to be experts and maybe you can get paid for it and I'm 63 and still jacked and I do a lot of training like that and Drug free and it works for me

david goggins training debunks this nonsense

Oh look. More internet experts who haven’t got a clue what they are talking about