M7 seems like 5 minutes: clock says 21 minutes

[MikeNY]

As I do the M7 it always seemed to me to take maybe five minutes. Each time I time it on the clock it is usually 20 to 21 minutes. Maybe because it is a pleasure rather than a chore the time flies by. If I hadn't timed it I'd claim it is a five minute fitness program.

After each set I like to shake my arms muscles as few seconds, just seems to help.

[stingray]

Do you do several sets of each exercise before moving on to the next, or do you do a set of each exercise and then repeat another set of each. This was never very clear to me. Thanks.

[Hank_Z]

As I do the M7 it always seemed to me to take maybe five minutes. Each time I time it on the clock it is usually 20 to 21 minutes. Maybe because it is a pleasure rather than a chore the time flies by. If I hadn't timed it I'd claim it is a five minute fitness program.

After each set I like to shake my arms muscles as few seconds, just seems to help.

Mike,

I'm glad you shared what you're experiencing with the M7. I'm still enough out of shape that doing three sets of 10 repetitions takes more than 20 minutes and feels like an hour.

For me, the resistance in both directions for the M7 is so much harder to do and wears me out much faster than VRTs with resistance in one direction.

I'll continue to do them, but they're the only Transformetric exercises that I do that are not pleasurable. I may be using too much tension in the M7s. :soldier:I fear that I might put too little tension into them if I reduce the tension much.

I'm still new and learning. I appreciate learning about others' experiences.

Hank

Hank

[MikeNY]

stingray the book says to me, do each set of exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 one after the other, complete the entire series of seven, then a second complete series and then the third. Using medium tension on each set to learn the exercises.

I changed that for myself; do two sets of each exertise back to back, one after the other; 8 hard reps; of the first exercise set then shake my arms and loosen them then repeat that exercise immediatly with a second set. Then go through the series, doing each exercise with two sets; then the 2nd exercise, 3rd, 4th 5th 6th and final 7th. Two sets back to back of each exercise and complete the entire series that way.

Hank_Z too much tension and you can pull a muscle or make a ligaments hurt. I back off if I feel that. The books says the way to learn the M7 is 3 sets of 10 reps at medium. If your do the exercises using Very Hard on more than 2 days a week you will feel the strain. I like 2 sets of 8 hard reps, it feels natural for me.

Right now I have a sprained ankle and am wearing a air cast, and do the M7 daily and add some Isometrics, and have been add 18 Isometric Power flexs sometimes.

The M7 is a complete system in of itself. The time flies by doing the M7.