Anyone Train Twice a Day?

Bigger Stronger Leaner
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I train in the mornings, 3 days a week. When I get home I don’t do too much since I work relatively late (start working out at 6:30 am and don’t usually get out of work until around 4:30pm), aside from working on some personal projects and maybe taking a walk outside.

I was toying around with the idea of working out in the afternoons too, whether or not it would be a good habit to get into since I enjoy working out and I could afford to lose some weight anyways. Seeing how out of shape people are at the office makes me sick as it is; I think I am the only one aside from one other guy, who also lifts regularly, that has normal posture.

Has anyone followed a program calling for morning and afternoon lifts? Are they worth pursuing for a casual lifter? I know the pros do this kind of thing, but being honest with myself my long term goal is not to set lifting records.

When I played football in high school we had 2-a-day’s and I remember getting in kick ass shape over the summer from those.

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I’ve played with it in the past. The format that seemed to work best was heavy in the morning, volume at night. Same lifts.

But currently I think lifting once a day and doing bodyweight stuff throughout the day is a better idea – pushups, dips, chins, inverted rows, whatever. In a sense that’s “heavy then volume” too.

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Depends on your goals and if you can eat enough to sustain the added workload. I train twice a day almost every day (except Saturday’s).

AM consists of 6 strength sessions and 1 neural charge workout.
PM consists of 3 wrestling sessions and 3 conditioning sessions and 1 off-night.

And of course if I am ever feeling tired I’ll adapt and take a day/night off or do a NC workout.

However, I would NOT recommend this considering you are posting in the beginner’s forum.

If I were you I would just up the frequency of your AM sessions before I added any PM sessions. That’s just me though…

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A Howie said above -not for beginners, try out training 5 days a week first

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I didn’t know leaving work at 4:30 is considered working late.

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Getting in at 6:30 is a 10 hour day. Most people where I work are out at 3, since it is expect everyone is in the building as early as possible.

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[quote]Evolv wrote:
I didn’t know leaving work at 4:30 is considered working late.[/quote]

I’m sure it would be if you started work at like 4-5 AM.

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[quote]magick wrote:

[quote]Evolv wrote:
I didn’t know leaving work at 4:30 is considered working late.[/quote]

I’m sure it would be if you started work at like 4-5 AM.[/quote]
He said he works out at 6:30 AM, so I was under the impression he probably gets to work at around 8.