7 Minute Timer
A 7 minute timer counts down 420 seconds and sounds an alarm when it reaches zero. That is 0.12 decimal hours on a timesheet, or 11.67% of an hour.
A seven minute timer exists in the popular imagination almost entirely because of one workout published in a medical journal.
Paused at 7:00
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The 7 minute timer at a glance
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 7 minutes |
| Seconds | 420 |
| Decimal hours | 0.12rounded |
| Clock format | 0:07 |
| Share of an hour | 11.67% |
| Blocks per hour | 8 |
| Blocks per 8 hour day | 68 |
| Pomodoros (25 min each) | 0.28 |
| Decimal hours are rounded to two places, which is how payroll systems record them. Blocks per hour and per day count whole blocks only and ignore the break between them, so a working day fits fewer in practice. | |
What a 7 minute timer is used for
The scientific seven minute workout and short circuits.
- The seven minute workout
- Twelve bodyweight exercises held for thirty seconds each with ten seconds between them, published in the ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal in 2013.
- Steeping herbal tea
- Herbal and rooibos infusions want five to seven minutes, considerably longer than green or black tea.
- Short circuit rounds
- Seven minutes is a common AMRAP window in circuit training, short enough to hold intensity throughout.
7 minutes in other units
- 7 minutes is 420 seconds.
- On a timesheet, it is recorded as 0.12 decimal hours.
- It is 11.67% of an hour.
- 8 of them fit into one hour.
- An eight hour working day holds 68, before any break between blocks.
- Against the classic twenty-five minute Pomodoro, it is 0.28 blocks.
Converting a different length is what the minutes to decimal hours converter is for, and adding several together is what the hours calculator does.
Timers either side of 7 minutes
If 7 minutes is the wrong length, the two nearest are 6 minutes and 8 minutes.
Questions about the 7 minute timer
What is the seven minute workout?
Twelve bodyweight exercises, each performed for thirty seconds with ten seconds of rest between them. It was published in the ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal in 2013 and spread because it needs no equipment beyond a chair and a wall.
How many seconds is a seven minute timer?
Four hundred and twenty seconds.