Weight training past 1 hour.

Remmy

Can someone explain to me in laymans terms why its not recommended to spend more than an hour weight training?

eg Would someone reap any benefit if on occasion they spent 2 hours in the gym working through different exercises.I know ideally it should be shorter than an hour.

Thanks in advance guys!

ragg

Remmy wrote: »

Can someone explain to me in laymans terms why its not recommended to spend more than an hour weight training?

eg Would someone reap any benefit if on occasion they spent 2 hours in the gym working through different exercises.I know ideally it should be shorter than an hour.

Thanks in advance guys!

at the risk of being attacked - there is **** all wrong with spending over an hour, but the thought process of the problem, in a nutshell is, after you lift heavy your muscles get hungry - you don't get food in, your muscles eat themselves. With regards to spending hours in a gym, i don't see the point, you should have a clear, defined program. You shouldn't be pissing around doing bits of this and bits of that..

squod

I dunno about you but I regularly do 1.75 hour weight training days.
I take with me an iso-drink to keep energy up. Again I dunno about you but this is what suits me, time wise.

Hanley

60 minutes is optimum.
59's sub par.
61's too much.

It's SO fortunate that the perfect training time just happens to directly align with one of our most basic units of time.

/sarcasm

There's nothing wrong with it. Depending on exercise choise, intensity and volume you could do the same total tonnage in one hour as three. It's a bullsh!t measure. The majority of my workouts are 1.5 to 2 hours.

Inspector Coptoor

Id have to agree with Hanley on this one.
some days i spend 30 mins lifting weights, some days i spend 150 mins, as long as you have enougfh fuel in the tank going in and replenish that fuel as soon as you finish i dont see a problem

ilovelamp2000

A number of personal trainers I know claim that it's because the body begins to produce cortisol which has a negative effect on building muscle. Or something to that effect. Here's an article that mentions it - http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson.htm

There's some literature that argues the effect of cortisol on building muscle is overestimated too.


I personally find that I made the best gains while training for more than an hour. Everybody is different, so find out what works for you.

Remmy

Thanks guys that sounds good to me!

heno86

yeh as was stated after approx an hour your body begins to release cortisol and your body goes into a catabolic state(muscle wasting) i personally find shorter workouts more effective and if im training really hard im pretty spent anyway,but wudnt worry too much about goin slightly over

t-ha

Hanley wrote: »

60 minutes is optimum.
59's sub par.
61's too much.

It's SO fortunate that the perfect training time just happens to directly align with one of our most basic units of time.

If you fly from west to east really quickly you can work out for 61 mins because time goes slower - it's gonna be the next big thing in sports training.