Raise your hand if you are 100% committed to going to the gym and really working out. I am almost willing to bet that the people who raised there hands are also the same people you see chatting away at the gym as if the place was some sort of local night club. It blows my mind when people tell me that they spend more than an hour a day in the gym. To me if you are doing a full body workout and you do things like deadlifts, pullups, dumbbell snatches and some abs and you do 4 sets each of 8-10 reps with no more than 60 seconds of rest between sets, how is it possible to spend more than an hour in the gym?

Be honest with yourself folks if you are going to workout, the WORKOUT! Dont go into the gym for social hour. You can do that any time of the day. Why waste the precious time you have there just to try and chat with your friends?

Some things that I have found that helped me out while I am there are:

1) setting a schedule of exercises I want to accomplish in the gym the night before

2) bringing a stop watch with me to time my rest periods.

3) listening to my ipod so I am not distracted by socializing

4) carrying my own bottle of water so I dont have to keep walking back to the fountain

If you keep to these things you will shorten the time you spend in the gym and accomplish more of your goals in term getting the results that you want. Best of luck to all of you and post up some comments.