Simply Athlete
05/08/2026
You don’t need 2 hours in the gym.
You need 45 minutes, done right.
I figured this out the hard way. For years I told myself my problem was time — that if I just had a 90-minute window every day, I’d actually progress. Then Harley was born and 45 minutes became my whole window. And I made MORE progress in those 45-minute sessions than I ever did in the 90-minute ones.
Why? Because constraints force focus. When you’ve got 2 hours, you waste 90 minutes of it. When you’ve got 45, every set has to count.
Here’s the actual structure I run inside The Rebuild:
→ 5 min warm-up (mobility + light first set)
→ 1 main compound: 4 working sets, 2-3 min rest
→ 1-2 secondary lift: 3 sets, full recovery
→ 2 accessory pairs, supersetted
→ Done
That’s it. No 6 different bicep variations. No 20-min cardio finisher. No phone scrolling between sets.
The guys making real progress on 4 days a week aren’t training harder than the bro doing 6 days at 90 min each. They’re just not wasting reps.
If your gym time feels like the bottleneck, that’s not the actual problem. The actual problem is what you’re doing with the time you have.
If your gym time feels like the bottleneck, that’s not the actual problem. The actual problem is what you’re doing with the time you have.
The Rebuild is built around this. 4 days a week, 45-min sessions. Real life. Real results. $27.
Link in bio if you want the full split.
— Alex
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