7 Minutes, 30 Days, Honest Review: How Does The 7-Minute Workout Stack Up?

For those who don’t like exercising, “the 7-minute workout” (developed by exercise scientists Chris Jordan and Bret Klika) has a lot of allure. After all, it’s just 7 minutes and then you’re done! But how well does it stand up, outside of the lab?

Down-to-Earth

Business Insider’s Kelly Reilly is not a health guru, and here he reviews the workout for us, so that we can get a real view of what it’s really like in the real world. What does he want us to know?

• It’s basically an optimized kind of circuit training, and can be done with no equipment aside from a floor, a wall, and a chair
• It’s one exercise for 30 seconds, then 10 seconds rest, then onto the next exercise
• He found it a lot easier to find the motivation to do this, than go to the gym. After all “it’s just 7 minutes” is less offputting than getting in the car, driving someplace, using public facilities, driving back, etc. Instead, it’s just him in the comfort of his home
• The exercise did make him sweat and felt like a “real” workout in that regard
• He didn’t like missing out on training his biceps, though, since there are no pulling movements
• He lost a little weight over the course of the month, though that wasn’t his main goal (and indeed, he was not eating healthily)
• He did feel better each day after working out, and at the end of the month, he enjoyed feeling self-confident in a tux that now fitted him better than it did before

For more details, his own words, and down-to-earth visuals of what this looked like for him, enjoy:

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Further reading

Want to know more? Check out…

• How To Do HIIT (Without Wrecking Your Body)
• HIIT, But Make It HIRT ← this is about high-intensity resistance training!

Take care!