Training Troubleshooting: Get Fit in Fewer Days

I recently started this "Training Troubleshooting" series with an article giving you tips on how to condense individual workouts when you're short on time – without losing all the results. (Find that article here: Get Fit in Less Time)

Here, I want to touch on another common "real life" situation and help you troubleshoot it...

The Problem: You Have a Limited Number of Days Per Week to Train

In other words, you want to do one of my programs that calls for training six days per week (like Super Shredded 8), but with work, school and/or family obligations, you're only realistically able to get to the gym 3-4 days per week. That means you can't do SS8, right? Wrong!

The Solution: Stretch Out the Program to Fit Your Schedule

Here's the thing: Yes, SS8 is a six-days-per-week program, but you can still do it in fewer days. As written, it lasts 8 weeks. If instead of doing six workouts per week you only do four, it then becomes a 12-week program (48 total workouts divided by 4). If you do the program only three days a week, it'll take you 16 weeks. That's fine. Will it yield the exact same results as it would with six training days a week over eight weeks? No. But the SS8 program has enough volume and intensity that even doing it three or four days a week will provide great results.

Just make sure you do every workout in the program in the exact order listed. What I mean is, if by the end of your first week you've only gotten through the Week 1 Day 4 workout, start the next week with the Week 1 Day 5 workout – as opposed to starting with Week 2 Day 1. This way, you're training all muscle groups in proportion with each other instead of doing, say, a chest/shoulders/triceps workout on Friday and then training those same

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