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I will admit it: I hate fucking working out. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy sporting activities like tennis, golf, basketball, softball, swimming … pretty much anything that involves some kind of competition I can defeat in order to fulfill my quota of kicking someone’s ass (or getting my own ass kicked). But just running for running’s sake, or workout out with weights and what-not is way too boring for me. But, and as my body starts breaking down in my advanced age, it’s something that I’ve come to learn is necessary.

Luckily, the folks over at AskMen.com have put together a simple, easy-to-do workout routine that only includes 3 of the 7 days of the week. In fact, the three days that you are “on” working out, you’re really only actually active for 30 minutes. That’s only an hour and a half a week, in other words. That’s completely doable, even for someone who hates working out like I do. Here’s the quick rundown of the schedule:

Day 1: Chest, back, abs, cardio
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: Shoulders, legs, abs, cardio
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: Biceps, triceps, abs, cardio
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: Rest

The article goes on to offer some tips regarding what workouts are the best exercises for each day, which is part of the necessary read. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to doing some laps:

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