Michael, I think I'm going to go with a slight modification of what you've sent me. I can't do much with quads and hammies, mainly due to past injuries, and ... well, age. but if I split off the abs, or don't do more than one set at the start, before anything else I'm within my time limits for three circuits on upper body with what you've listed. The pushups are with feet on floor and hands on an old knee high bench. Abs can also start off my two or three Tues/Thurs. Sat. workout as well as the singleton MWF. The upper body drills for chest, curls, tris lats delts are all self resistance with folks here - there's no set-up time for equipment or anything. That's one of the great things about self resistance - its anytime, anywhere whatever suits you. Can't beat that. So - thanks for helping out! This is a great website. I'll let you know if there's any problems, but I don't see it happening. Maybe I'll give Greg's across body drills a place on self resisted curls.

Greg, I think you did send me the Dayton material . I must have lost it when we moved. But I do have IPG and I remember Dr. Eslinger's picture and John's text. My apology to you and thanks for responding.

DD - I thought I'd answered you about the Mike Dayton exercises - but must not have. I don't think there is a PDF online, but if you have John Peterson's Isometric Power Revolution, the exercises posed by Dr. Neal Eslinger are almost a carbon copy of Mike Dayton's exercises; which are somewhat different from the Dynaflex exercises.

So You upper body workout takes longer? About how long? Is this a good example of Your upper body?

3 Circuits

Side laterals

Wall Push ups

Bicep curl

Crunches

Tricep Extensions

Or are You doing more exercises for each body part? My opinion nothing more. If You're using more exercises with three sets, like say 2 or 3, you probably would be better off splitting this up more. If You're doing something like I posted up top I don't see why You can't get this done pretty quick if done in circuits.

An idea for You, I would do abs with legs. That would take some time off the upper body. Lol, and another idea. You could do what I think Bruce does. He does a split like You, Upper/ Lower. This is what I believe he does. He works Chest, Back, Shoulders, and Arms on Upper body day. He does on set to failure on each exercise. Now You don't have to go to failure. You can go with a little higher reps to feel a little burn if You want or a pump. He does a bunch of exercises for each body part and he goes from one exercise to another. You get a little cardio affect from this. I think I heard him in the past say that he gets this done in 20 some minutes.

Michael; thanks for responding. Much appreciated. I'm limited in what I can do for the quads and hammies due to sports injuries, so two or at most three days a week I do a quick three position seated iso circuit back and forth between the two, 8 second holds with my sneakers on to provide resistance. Calf work is calf raises with a board under my feet. not pushing up with my toes but rather pushing with the arch at the midpoint of my foot between the base of the toes and the natural arch of the foot. ( This makes a big difference in the results - I used to push up off the toes - no good.) At the top of the ROM I "wiggle around" for 5 seconds or so, and then lower, so I get 20 - 25 reps. Low back is rope resisted seated reps, one set. Fifteen minutes does this for me, there's no pain - do this Tu/Th Sat. MWF is where it gets interesting - I want to do several sets of each upper body exercise I do, but there is no way I can get say three circuits of self resisted lateral raises, chest work, curls, abs, and tricep extensions, with both isotonic and isometric work done. I suppose that I could do two sets of these if I divided them into four w/o, with two w/o done for each. Hmmm.

Dmoates I would say this all depends on how you normally workout. Are you doing full body workouts everyday? Here's my suggestion. Since your short on time why not use a split? I like to workout 6 days a week but I don't know what you like.

You could do an upper/lower body split. Or you could split it even farther like Chest/Back, Legs/Abs, and Shoulders/Arms. You could pick 3-5 exercises for each body part and set it up like a circuit. You could do 3-5 circuits which makes the routine go pretty fast.

If you give more details I'd be willing to help. What kind of exercises do you like?

Greg, thanks. And - would you know how to access Mike Dayton's training handbook (if that is what showed his program) which I seem to vaguely remember from years ago? When we moved a lot of things hit the dust and it could've been Mr. Dayton. If so I sure regret that.

Hi DD - I like keeping it short and sometimes time really makes it short. Sometimes I've done sets of pushups throughout the day with the Warrior Power Tees. Another thing I've done is the Dynaflex or Mike Dayton isometric tension exercises when I first wake up and when I go to bed. A set of the Tiger Moves also work well with this. A hundred free hand squats before bedtime takes little time and actually helps me sleep.