I have concluded my experiment of dragging host to the gym or 7 days in a row without break, 2-2.5h each session. The experiment only ended due to time constraints, not because the body couldn't take it. Honestly, I am surprised. There was no soreness. Just tired and briefly a sort of feverish feeling at night, negligible. Strength even increased over the week, no sign of exhaustion.
On one hand that is extremely cool, on the other, it shows we have a problem. The fact that we could do this all day every day means we are not training hard enough. Not at all. But I see no easy way to fix this. I'm wary of adding significantly more weight because of the risk of injury. It already doesn't feel good with the max weight we use. And adding more reps isn't really possible due to time constraints. 3h is the max.
In fact, that's clearly the main issue. I can't speed things up either, I already rush host from machine to machine with 1 min breaks. We do far more exercises than others at the same time. Our current setup is 5 reps per exercise with increased weight 15/12/10/8/8. I'm thinking about removing one set and go 15/15/10/10 with increased weight. Worth a try.
I have also reduced the setup to 2 distinct days - Pull+Legs1 and Push+Legs2. Pull/Push/Legs was too inefficient resulting mostly in 1 such day per week. So what do? All I can think of now is reducing the number of exercises and therefore increasing sets/reps. But that sucks too and would probably result in even more different days i I split up Pull and Push too. Do you think it's better to do fewer exercises in higher intensity?
Obviously we cannot keep going daily because with walking there and back we lose 3h per day. Host is not a Bear and even though he only works a fraction of him, he's not able to get shit done with this gym routine.
Weird enough, we found out why we always meet the same people at the gym. Because they're there every fucking day for 3-4h in the afternoon. No idea when and how much they work? Efficient people are scary. I admit that while the result of our work may be of the highest quality and serene beauty, it's heinously inefficient. After all we're Orchids not Dandelions. Awesome but simply not competitive.
