I lift twice a day (i.e. upper body in the morning and upper body again at night). In the morning I do a sprint/agility session for about 30 minutes then I lift for about 55 minutes. Then I do a conditioning session (e.g. 10 40 yard sprints w/full recovery). Then later at night I lift again for 40 minutes. My question is if I wanted to do another cardio session after I lift at night would this be too much cardio? Would it just be counter productive to my strength gains or would this be alright?
What are you trying to do? Come on give us a clue.
I want to get as strong, fast and a strong endurance base without sacrificing my strength gains. I’m training for football.
I would not add it. Actually, I think that you are already doing too much. Your total work capacity may be ok, but I’m not sure if your training is the most beneficial breakdown for your sport. I would look into a football program from Coach Davies at renegadetraining.com. His programs are brutal and battle tested and should get you on the right track.
I’m no expert but this sounds like too much to me unless you’re using something like 4adec or mag10. Also, no offense but if you’re doing this for the fall you’re starting a bit late. You can’t really make up for lost time by overtraining.
You will be fine. Your Body will adapt JMB has gone over this several times. I do 1 hour of cario daily with no problems. I know Mufasa does 1-2 hours of cardio daily at times as well.
You might want to check out Coach D’s football Program. My personnal favorite was Bill Starr’s Only the Strong Will Survive. But From the feed back I have seen on Coach D’s it incorpoartes some of the new training methods.
Best of Luck.
Well, I don’t know but I thought starting in December was early enough, maybe not?
Your “cardio” sessions sound very anaerobic not like aerobic cardio sessions at all. I would recommend cycling true aerobic cardio sessions in with your sprints. But what you really need to do is some lower body work upper body twice a day and no legs sounds a little crazy to me. you cant have a strong tree with weak roots. Also if you are training multiple energy systems on the same day you will not get optimum gains in any one system. Try cycling heavy weights and power movements with your sprints and aerobic intervals and lsd, isd training with ligther weights in hypertrophy cycles this will also help you avoid overtraining wich it sounds like your doing with so many sessions daily.
upper body twice a day was just an example. I do upper body twice a day on mondays, on tuesday’s I do one lower body work out in the morning then I have mini camp at night. I take wednesday off, then thursday I do one upper body session then at night we do a 7 on 7 pass scrimmage against another school, then on friday I do two leg workouts. Saturday and sunday are off.
Pretty much agree with Norcross but I have a few questions and comments.
How old are you (prep, college, etc.)?
Does your team have summer workouts?
When establishing a program for football try to be somewhat position oriented. I went to the UT lineman camp 2 years and trust me, we did things that I know the quarterbacks were not doing.
I’m in highschool. Yes, our team has summer workouts we work out year round, for the summer it’s 4 days a week with one or two practices at night each week.