My greatest gains were on deadlifts. I went from struggling to deadlift 165 lb once to a good 345 lbs for 5 reps. My squats went from 135 lbs once to 235 lbs for 5 reps. My bench is lagging but it improved from 130 lbs for 5 reps to 170 lbs for 5 reps. I do wish to bench more than 200 lbs someday.

It is 3 exercises – One for lower body, one for upper body push, and one for upper body pull.

It doesn’t seem like a lot, but you need to think about this though because a compound exercise such as the deadlift works your hamstring, lower back, glutes, abs, traps, forearms, a little bit of upper back and biceps. That alone burns a lot more fat than doing isolation movements such as bicep curls when you only work your biceps. Biceps are small muscles. The bigger the muscle and the more muscle groups you work on, the more calories you burn and more muscles you build.

You are at risk of overtraining when you think doing more is more effective for building muscles and burning fat.

I usually finish my workouts within 40 minutes to an hour tops, and that is for working out my whole body.

Thanks for the comment.

So you are only doing 2 exercises each workout day?

Just clarification on your recommendation because I like the concept very much, but think that just a little bit more is needed to really build the muscle enough to burn the fat. Assuming the diet is ok of course.

Another fun thing to do to keep things fresh and mixed up is to mess around with how fast you lift the weights. You can do it slow, fast or in between but that is a great mixer too!

Nice post and blog though.