Everything else being equal:
For Muscle Building:
Two 30-Minute Workouts > One 1-Hour Workout ?
For Fat Loss:
Two 30-Minute Workouts > One 1-Hour Workout ?
(30-minute workouts are performed on the same day, 12 hours apart)
From everything I have read, they are =
Personally, I would rather do 1 hour than 2 half hours as I think I would be more likely to skip the PM half hour if I over did it in the AM half hour.
Also, you would need to spend additional time warming up/stretching again for the PM session.
[quote]Astute wrote:
From everything I have read, they are =
Personally, I would rather do 1 hour than 2 half hours as I think I would be more likely to skip the PM half hour if I over did it in the AM half hour.
Also, you would need to spend additional time warming up/stretching again for the PM session.[/quote]
yeah why “get urself out of the groove” so to speak. I mean i would feel out of it if i did that. Mental wise. It just is harder to get pumped up before both workouts. u know what im trying to say right?
Personally, I have found that two shorter sessions spaced 4-6 hours apart are fantastic.
I train no longer than 45 ( average 40 ) minutes per session.
I do a “heavy” session in the AM
I do a “light” session in the PM
This can work with whole body training, or splits.
This is a great set up if you ask me. It’s something to seriously consider.
I have made some of my best progress when I could train in two shorter sessions. I am not in the habit of suggesting things like this, but as weight training is very ( very ) personal. Despite that fact this is something to be tried and tested by everyone if you ask me.
Give it a try…like many others on this site say, this may work for you or it won’t-- what works for some won’t necessarily work for you. One of the cool parts about this whole lifting lifestyle is discovering what you respond to, and, in the process, getting to know your body and how to make it bigger/faster/stronger/leaner.
Whether someone else finds two-a-days to work is less important than you giving it the ol’ college try and keeping as many other variables constant so you can evaluate whether it worked.
That said, if my teaching schedule could accomodate two-a-days, I’d totally do it. I have discovered that I’m responding well to more frequency, high intensity, and lower volume right now, so that sort of schedule work be good.
Log your results and let us know.
You can have more intense workouts the shorter they are. Most people find twice per day too inconvenient though.
With 2 half hour workouts, you could workout more intensly than you could for a whole hour, regardless of what you were doing. By spacing them during the day, it would be good for fat loss by keeping your post workout metabolism elevated longer. For mass, you could increase your frequency of training and be able to hit body parts in a fresh state rather than working out a bodypart last in your program. If you have the time, I would do it. Overall recovery should not be affected too much, since you are splitting an hour workout in two, rather than working out twice as much.