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Training twice a day. Any Thoughts on this?
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Arnold used to work out lower body in the mourning and upper body at night, during his shredding days...it worked for him 
As long as you make sure you are consuming enough protein, then I don't see why not.
As long as you make sure you are consuming enough protein, then I don't see why not.
Arnold used to work out lower body in the mourning and upper body at night, during his shredding days...it worked for him
As long as you make sure you are consuming enough protein, then I don't see why not.
Ah yes, while you're at it do all the "workouts of the pros" in Flex and M&F too! If you have the elite genetics and the boatload of AAS, insulin and HGH to go along with those genetics that 0.00001% of the population possesses, you too can win the Olympia someday! Oh, it helps if you don't have to go to work at a job while you're doing your two-a-days too.
What "worked" for the pros usually:
a) isn't really what "worked" to get them to that level, and
b) probably isn't going to work for the majority of everyone else.
If it did, well, I guess we'd all be up on that stage in Vegas in Sept. huh?
Hmm...I'm always one to say you need to experiment with your body and see what works for YOU.
All I said is that Arnold proposed this way of training. I did not say everyone should train that way.
Take it easy big guy
No need to jump down my throat about it.I have trained twice a day before and t has worked fine with me. There is nothing wrong with it if you're getting proper food and supplementation and rest...nothing at all.
Hmm...I'm always one to say you need to experiment with your body and see what works for YOU.
All I said is that Arnold proposed this way of training. I did not say everyone should train that way.
Take it easy big guy
I have trained twice a day before and t has worked fine with me. There is nothing wrong with it if you're getting proper food and supplementation and rest...nothing at all.
I'm not jumping at all. Don't flatter yourself.
I'm sitting here very relaxed and about to go to bed. Absolutely. Many things will work for you, so go figure out what works BEST for you. A lot of things have worked for me. Some have worked better than others. Some things worked better for me at different times in my life than others too. And it all depends on a person's goals...which can change frequently as well.
I know 2-a-days would work better for a 19 year old college kid who had an easy schedule and no job than for a 36 year old with a career and family. Also would help if that kid had some test and dbol too, but I wouldn't recommend that for any 19 year old.
Most people take too long to find out what works BEST for them. Sometimes when they find something that works really really well, they go ahead and "change it up" right in the middle of the best gains of their lives too. After all, they gotta "keep the muscles guessing"! Makes sense right? I mean if it ain't broke, let's go ahead and fix it anyway! That's what people usually do with their training and diet.
If you're training twice a day intensity will have to suffer. If you still give an all out, balls to the wall intensity, your 2-a-days won't last much more than 2 days. Of course most people lie to themselves about their intensity level too. Or they confuse intensity with short rest periods and/or number of sets/exercises performed (which is inaccurate as those things have nothing to do with intensity).
Anyway, I'm tired and going to bed. Not jumping down anyone's throat, just want people to train smarter. Think about what you're doing and what you've done. This is why it's important to keep a logbook to track progress of not only the weights you're lifting, but the weight on the scale, and measurements too. It'll be easier to see what works then.
Arnold used to work out lower body in the mourning and upper body at night, during his shredding days...it worked for him
Considering the volume of his workouts and that he trained every muscle twice in six days he had little choice. I doubt any professional bodybuilders now train with the same high frequency.
For me the tediousness of having to go to the gym twice a day would soon burn me out and take away any advantages to be had.
I've never found it difficult to train hard for 90 minutes. I'd rather get it done in one session and least feel like I have a life outside the gym.
I think that if your life, work, etc allows you to do that a morning workout of 50 minutes and another 50 min workout later on the afternoon for the same muscular group or back and bis later/chest and tris later/ squats and deads later/ (some examples) it might be worth the shot providing that diet, recovery and sleep is in check.
I'm not a big fan of high volume on the same workout, it kills intensity. I'd rather trash myself during 50 minutes and come again 8 hours later for another jolt if I'm capable of than go mid-gas through 2 hours workouts... High intensity for most people doesn't go over 60 minutes at a time.
I'm not a big fan of high volume on the same workout, it kills intensity. I'd rather trash myself during 50 minutes and come again 8 hours later for another jolt if I'm capable of than go mid-gas through 2 hours workouts... High intensity for most people doesn't go over 60 minutes at a time.
My entire workout session is 45-50 mins of super intense, vein bulging, eye-gauging, balls-to-the-wall pumping iron.
If you don't do some decent warmups and work into your heavy weights progressively, that has to be a recipe for eventual disaster.
If I was training for 45 minutes (I usually do 90 - 120 mins), at least half of that time would be considered warmups or progressive feel sets. If I came in twice a day, I'd be wasting far too much time.
When I warmup well I can lift heavier. Cutting warmup time short leads to a less effective workout for me. I should mention here that I'll be 50 this year, so that connective tissue needs to be well prepared.
