can i workout twice a day?

[chale989]

i know most people who train twice a day are on steroids ect, but im thinking of doing upper body every dya in a body split so chest n tris on monday and thursday , back bicep tuesday fridayand shoulders traps on wednesday and saturday and have sunday off. but do legs and stomach ect at night time during those days and do the upper body in the day time? is this ok or is it over training?

[Swigsmcfc]

Depends how many total sets your doing i spose. I do a push legs pull routine twice a week with a days rest inbetween, 12 sets for back and quads, 9 sets for shoulders, chest n hamstrings, and 6 sets for everything else per workout. So it works out you'll do slightly more sets than you would on a 5 day split over the week but slightly less per workout.

[Machine]

I don't think you'd have issues. As long as you focus on isolation of each muscle group worked. Also make sure you don't have inter working bodyparts ie shoulders and chest too soon after each other. Also the same for back and biceps. These bodyparts need to be trained in the same session or 48 hours apart.

[TJLEE]

I would not say that most people who train twice a day are on Steroids! Whilst I have never or will never take them, you have to be careful assuming that anything you see in the gym that looks out of the ordinary, is attributed to Steroids because the chances are they are not. An excellent diet plan and expert knowledge of training and recovery etc would allow someone to train twice a day in a completley natural way. You will be surprised what can be done with the human body without the use of Steroids, check out some natural body building websites!!!!!

In answer to your question....if your diet is spot on and you do not neglect your post workout recovery, then yes I believe you can do an upper body lower body split in the same day!

[chale989]

i would not be doing it twice a day every day. example chest and triceps on monday with 12 sets for chest and 8 for tricep and then monday night would be a legs session. but then tuesday would be shoulders and traps but no later leg session. the leg session would come every 3 days? so i wouldnt be training twice a day evryday

[-AC-]

ive done a similar split in the past. i did a heavy day and a light day for each so did heavy compounds on one and more of a pumping isolation day for the other. i didnt really notice much in the way of size gains but my strength did improve.

[chale989]

is 6 days a week upper body considerd over tranining and only 1 day a week legs in under? i know it depneds on which person but is it normally considerd too much? i just dont see how doing legs and upper body on the same day ? the only thing it could effect is your cns?

[-AC-]

i personally dont see it as over or under training. it depends on the intensity you train at. if you were to train upper body heavy and intense in a morning and then legs heavy and intense on a night then you may struggle, unless you jsut ate and slept all day. however if you do legs on one of your light days then it shouldnt be a problem.

[chale989]

i train intense in the morning say 11am upper body but never ache and then legs session of only say 30 minutes at 8 or 9pm? every 3 days

[-AC-]

how long have you been doing that for? any results?

[chale989]

been doing it for a few months and to me it seems to be fine. im putting on weight without more body fat so im pretty sure its going fine but im just wondering wether its holding back more gains if im over training?

[Richdunn]

so much tlak about steroids, steroids this steroids that, ur on setroids!! no ur on steroids!!!!!!, hes huge must be on roids, im angry(roid rage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) goes on and on and on etc

[numerouno]

lol calm down Rich! I find it funny that people always say to train twice you must be on roids! You can't beat a sweeping generalisation can you!! I've never tried training twice a day, although have been tempted. Partly put of by the idea of the dreaded overtraining (which I don't even know if exists) and the main reason is I never have enough clean gym kit training once a day so training twice a day i'd probably end up training in my suit some days lol

[Richdunn]

training in ur suit!! thats a crazy thing to do, u must be on roids!

[Gazroth]

Train intensly the first time round and you may find you wont have enough energy for the second daily session. Go to the gym, give it everything and crawl out afterwards, otherwise, dont bother.

[Swigsmcfc]

I train intensely and used to go to failure every time but i think it holds me back abit. I read your only meant to go to failure on one exercise per muscle group each month! And if your a hardgainer you should never apply the "no pain no gain" theory! But i find it gets too much like work recording everything and i enjoy pushin myself, so i just see how i feel at the time. Im pretty sure i was overtraining last year when i was cutting, i just got this horrible feeling towards the end of a workout where i had to stop (sounds stupid i know!), cudnt've been that bad though because i just tuk 2 weeks off and had about a week of eating loads of carbs n i was fine. That was due to too much cardio, not enough high carb days and lack of sleep!