How to use the online timer
Ninety minutes covers a full gym session with nothing rushed: a warm-up, the main lifts with proper rest between sets, accessory work and a few minutes at the end that are not spent staring at a phone. Building gyms tend to be busiest between six and nine in the evening, which is worth planning around when a session depends on a particular rack being free.
Start the count as the warm-up starts, then largely ignore it. Its job is to tell you when ninety minutes have gone, not to hurry the rest between sets, which needs its own timing. Keep this tab open in the background if you are using a phone, and be aware that swapping to another app can suspend it — a second device is the simple answer.
Ninety minutes is generous, and most of the time it gets used up by waiting rather than lifting. Writing the session down beforehand — the movements, sets and loads — turns it into a plan rather than a wander, and it makes the difference obvious between a session that filled the time and one that did the work. Anything past the ninety minutes usually belongs to the next one.
Common questions
Is ninety minutes too long?
Not if it is planned. Most of the time it gets used up waiting rather than lifting, so writing the session down beforehand is what turns it into ninety minutes of work rather than ninety minutes in a gym.
When are building gyms quietest?
Usually early morning and late at night; between six and nine in the evening is the busiest stretch in most towers. Planning around that matters when the session depends on a particular rack being free.
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