How Long are the Body Beast Workouts

Body Beast used to be one of my favorite programs. It really helped me fall in love with heavy lifting, feeling strong & powerful! Because of my busy life as a mom, I like to plan how much time and what expenses are really going to go into a workout. For that reason, I’m sharing with you today the length of the body beast workouts and Body Beast Equipment you’ll need. Because of my adrenal health and the healing I am doing for that, I do less intense workouts at the moment. You can always follow my Instagram for my current workout routine!

Length of Body Beast Workouts

Body Beast Build Phase

• Build Legs: 38 min
• Build Chest/Tris: 48 min
• Build Back/Bis: 50 min
• Build Shoulders: 38 min

Body Beast Bulk Phase

• Bulk Legs: 41 min
• Bulk Arms: 35 min
• Bulk Chest: 30 min
• Bulk Back: 29 min
• Bulk Shoulders: 35 min

Beast Workouts

• Beast Abs: 10 min
• Beast Cardio: 38 min
• Beast Total Body: 38 min

Needed Body Beast Equipment

All you really need is a variety of dumbbells. Technically the program says you need:

• A pull up bar
• A bench or stability ball
• An ez curl bar
• And weights

However, I only ever used the dumbbells, and still got great results. I have a set of Bowflex weights ranging from 5-52 lbs. To learn more about the bowflex weights, click on the image below.

Why Use Bowflex for Body Beast Workouts?

I personally use the Bowflex Select Techs. While they look big and bulky, they are perfect for someone who wants  the convenience of having a range of weights (they range from 5-52 pounds each) while taking up little space. In Body Beast you are constantly increasing your weights from set to set, and you need to do it quickly. You can do this easily with the Bowflex Select Techs. Even though they can be pricey,  you can occasionally find them on sale on Amazon, with free shipping, which is where I ordered mine from.

What are the Body Beast Workouts?

Here are the workouts during the BULK Phase:

• Chest: Focuses in your pec muscles from multiple angles and hitting different muscle fibers. It is 30 minutes long.
• Back: Using Force Sets and SuperSets you do a lot of rows, pull overs, reverse flys and dead-lifts. It is 29 minutes
• Shoulders: You do lateral raises, arnold presses, and more in series of Super Sets and Progressive Sets. Seriously makes your shoulders burn! It is 35 minutes long.
• Arms: Not your average bicep and tricep workout- this one is intense with the Force Sets, Single Sets and Progressive sets. Sagi says you get “Huge Arms,” but I think mine look leaner and fitter! It is 35 minutes long.
• Legs: “Change your chicken legs into tree trunks.” haha NO THANKS! I don’t want TREE TRUNKS! I just want a solid booty and strong legs, and OH MAN it makes your booty and legs scream! It is 41 minutes long.
• Cardio & Abs: For cardio I have been doing Turbo Fire or going for jogs. I liked the Cardio workout in Body Beast, but I need to mix it up and I just missed Turbo Fire too much not to do it. As for abs, I either do the Body Beast abs which includes Russian Twists, planks, crunches, etc. or I do my own ab routine or do another Beachbody Ab workout- like Ab Ripper X or Chalean Extreme Abs.

What are “Sets?”

If you are like me, you have no idea what body building style of workouts really mean. I had no idea before I started this program. Now remember, I don’t want to be a bodybuilder, I just want to do this program to build more defined muscle and become more lean and fit. I’ll explain a few of the “Dynamic Set Training” terms:

• A single set is 1 exercise only. In the Bulk Arms video, we do single set tricep extensions. You do 15 reps with a light weight, 12 reps with a heavier weight, then 8 reps with an even heavier weight, then 8 reps with the lightest weight.
• A progressive set is a pyramid. You go from 15 reps, to 12 reps to 8 reps (like a single set), take a break (about 1 minute and a half), and then from 8 reps, to 12 to 15 reps. When you are doing more reps you use lower weights. When you are doing fewer reps (8) you use a heavier weight.
• A super set is any 2 exercise movements done back to back without rest. In the Bulk Chest workout we do incline flys and incline presses.
• Make sure you have various sizes of free weights or dumbbells. I use Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells (Pair) because they range from 5-52.5 lbs. They are easy to use, easy to adjest, durable and take up little space.

There are a total of 6 types of sets you do in the various workouts.

I hope you find this article helpful about the workouts, the length of workouts and the Body Beast equipment you may need.

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Article Updated January 2019.