I have started with the workouts in "The New Rules of Lifting for Women" in early February, because I wanted to do more free weights and was very bored with doing mostly machines.

I go to the gym (by bicycle, it's only two to four kilometres from anywhere else I'm likely to be) after work or after music lessons, two or three times a week. Six to ten minutes of warm-up on the elliptical on medium-high setting, some bodyweight squats and empty-bar deadlifts to get into the motion pattern, then the workout. It's reasonable quick, actually, less than half an hour -- that's one advantage of compound exercises, you can work lots of muscle groups at once. Then stretching, some clowning around (doing handstands or attempting something on the balance board).

I used to do intervall running after the strength trainig, but after the NRoLfW workouts, my legs won't let me. Those squats, deadlifts, steps, lunges and crunches are serious work. Unfortunately that means that I'm losing what little running ability I had built up over the years. In theory I'd have to go to the gym two more times, just for the running, but I can't make the time.