Anyone exercise twice a day ?

MooseJam

So I'm giving a little thought to exercising twice a day but the bother of more washing and two showers is putting me off, does anyone do this ?

hunnymonster

I'm currently doing 12 sessions a week so 2-3 times a day. My partner does similar and is also a fireman so our house is full of smelly kit and the shower is constantly on the go. We recently bought an industrial washing machine which has really helped. You'll get used to it.

cowzerp

i train 2-3 times most days, wear the same shorts a lot of the time! but have to change tops obviously, its not as bad as you'd think!

jon1981

hunnymonster wrote: »

I'm currently doing 12 sessions a week so 2-3 times a day. My partner does similar and is also a fireman so our house is full of smelly kit and the shower is constantly on the go. We recently bought an industrial washing machine which has really helped. You'll get used to it.

thats hardcore! :eek:


all you guys must be consuming some amount of calories to maintain that training routine

furryr

i have done it at various stages but you know it really depends on what your after , what stage your at , how well you are nutritioned up . if i was looking for a 300 kilo deadlift (i wish) i definitely wouldnt be training twice a day however you can achieve some great conditioning and in a 6 week period you could make it look like you have attained a completely new physique

Or you can bang yourself into overtraining so fast your head spins get injured and get the flu .

Some intl squads apparently train 2:1:2:1:2:0 (twice one day , once the next) with requisite loading phases ie they may not necessarily be very heavy training sessions at times

brianthebard

If you have the time and calories it might be worth trying for 6 wks anyways.

gabgab

Could you use a mass gainer for the calories, I see these advertised containing 1,250 calories etc. Just curious if this is something people do,

eg: hunnymonster with all the cardio, triathlon and related stuff right?

where do you get the fuel, if you say its all from whole foods, and you train that much, I will bow to your ferocious dedication...

hunnymonster

I don't actually need as many calories as you might think. Firstly because I'm a girl, secondly I'm quite short and thirdly my BMR is lower than most people's for historical health reasons.

That said, a 7 hour bike/run session is still going to set me back over 4000 calories. I consume about 400 an hour as energy drinks (using torq at the moment but I've no real allegiance). A really good dinner when I get home usually makes up the rest.

During the week when I'm doing 3 sessions the day will typically be

-before breakfast - something slow and about 90 mins as a fat burner
-big brekkie, usually a couple of stuffed pitta breaks with a good quality meat or fish and salad
-pre lunch snack - fruit or yoghurt
-lunchtime session - usually a speed session
-mid afternoon snack - often leftovers from previous evenings dinner so meat or omelette or something
-evening session - anything from 1.5 to 4 hour duration
-dinner, washing, get ready for next day, sleep

I've recently managed (after years of trying) to give up diet coke. I still have a sweet tooth and give into chocolate a little too often but otherwise I'm pretty happy with my diet although I would like to figure out how to have dinenr earlier in the day.

gabgab

Fair play to you, are you giving up the diet coke for sporting reasons or just trying to clean out the diet a bit more?

I didnt think that chocolate would of made much difference with that many hours, of course at your level the tiniest things can make a difference I bet,

hunnymonster

Just giving up the diet coke to clean up the diet a bit. I was drinking an awful lot of it!!! Sleeping much better since I gave it up but the headaches and tremors the first couple of days were scary

My bodyfat is actually higher than I would like. It's bang in the middle of the "normal" zone for healthy women but athletes should be lower. Ideally I'd like to get to 15-18% if that doesn't mess up my hormones. Chocolate as a nighttime snack is not helping in that department!

BrianD3

For the summer I'm doing weights twice a day Mon-Fri and once a day Sat-Sun. Having my own exercise equipment at home really helps. I do not get fatigued or sweaty as my sessions are reasonably short with big rests between sets, heavy weights, low volume and low reps. Some sessions are "lighter" than others but would still not be classed as "light"

I may go back to one session a day when the mornings get dark in winter. However I think I am somewhat addicted to exercise as when I took a week off at the start of July bad depression set in within a couple of days.

amazingemmet

hunnymonster wrote: »

Just giving up the diet coke to clean up the diet a bit. I was drinking an awful lot of it!!! Sleeping much better since I gave it up but the headaches and tremors the first couple of days were scary

My bodyfat is actually higher than I would like. It's bang in the middle of the "normal" zone for healthy women but athletes should be lower. Ideally I'd like to get to 15-18% if that doesn't mess up my hormones. Chocolate as a nighttime snack is not helping in that department!

Just get a high cocoa brand of chocolate and it'll help and not be as bad;)

Roper

Not lately but usually two sessions a day for 4 days, 1 session a day for two days and 1 rest day.

I don't think there's too much benefit for a non-athlete doing more than one session a day. Recovery is more important in most cases and a twice daily routine My days are typically cardio or conditioning in the am followed by skills and sparring in the pm. I try to catch an hour's kip in the afternoon but it's usually not possible.

AlphaMale 3OO

Used to combine weights and HIIT training on certain days but as my bodyfat got very low I find four weights a week does me fine, specially now as I'm training more for strength. tbh showering twice would be a minor inconvenience to me.

shels4ever

Yep I now train twice a day maybe 3 days a week , so have about 8-9 sessions most weeks now.

Roper

Oh yes and agree on the washing machine thing! It helps if you just leave the sweaty clothes in the shed though you get less filthy looks from the missus!

Who needs showers anyway?

Hanley

furryr wrote: »

i have done it at various stages but you know it really depends on what your after , what stage your at , how well you are nutritioned up . if i was looking for a 300 kilo deadlift (i wish) i definitely wouldnt be training twice a day however

I dunno... the Russian powerlifting team thrives on 2 a day's. And the Bulgarian weightlifting squad smashed WR after WR traning 4 and 5x a day.

When it comes down to it, it's an issue of load and volume management. Training multiple times a day can be brutally effective for strength gains if you know how to manage it properly.