hey people 
so this fall I am going back to school every night and I'll work during the day so I'll try to workout as less as possible because it won't be a priority.
would I still have good gains if I train lets say like this:
monday: squats
wednesday: bench
friday: deadlifts
just trying to get stronger on those for a good 2 years.
do you guys have a better idea ?
Two questions:
1. What is your current condition and training schedule?
2. how much time you can use for training per day?
As you know, you can have a full and complete exercise in 30 minutes, if you know what you are doing. For example, if you want to train your legs, first you do two sets of 70 - 100 reps of leg extension with a small weights, and stretch your thighs completely. This is simply to prepare your knees and muscles for the exercise, and warm up. Then you do one warm up set with leg press, using weights which you can do full 25 reps with. After that you load the leg press with 90% of your one rep max, and the leg extension- machine also 90% of your ORM. Then you do super set with them, starting with leg-presses and doing it to the failure, meaning that you have to use the spotter. Use a full range of motion while doing this. When that set is done, you go for the extensions without any delay, no pause, no mercy, and do them to the failure. If you need more than two rounds, you haven't done it hard enough. You can do similar combinations for every muscle group, super setting different muscle groups and using heavy weights. Bench/Barbell rows/bicep curls, shoulder presses/tricep presses, etc. I have used this method every now and then, and it gives me an opportunity to have a good exercise within an half an hour. Downside is that you have to have "light"days or a week once a month per muscle group to avoid over training. You also have to be in good shape before trying something like this, because if you are not, you can't walk in days after that leg- routine.
If you don't know your one rep max, just take your heaviest set ever and add 10 %. If you cant get a spotter for bench, use the chest-press machines or dumbbell's. You can fill the gaps with deadlifts, abs, lower back etc. exercises and you will be fine...
