Is this too much?

anachronicles

My plan for today was to go to the gym and do a half hour HIIT treadmill session followed by about a half hour of a HIIT ab circuit. But there are also two back-to-back classes offered by the gym that I would like to attend. One is a "core blast" and the other is a bootcamp. Overall I'd be at the gym for about 2.5 hours.

My main fitness goal is to build lean muscle, so I get plenty of protein in my diet.

kelly_e_montana

Depends on how much you've already been working out...I train 2.5 hours per day a couple of days per week but I worked up to that. I wouldn't go right into it from zero.

kelly_e_montana

I don't know that you need to do that much high intensity cardio all in one day. If anything, mix up your day if you are going to go that long or mix long. WTH is lean muscle? Muscle is muscle; you don't build muscle with fat attached and muscle without fat attached via different kinds of exercise. If you want to build muscle, take one HIIT class and do some strength training with your extra time.

ThePhoenixIsRising

Being at the gym that long if you aren't eating for it and your body isn't used to it isn't productive.

There are diminishing returns after you have been there past what your body is fueled and prepared for. You will begin to Half *kitten* things and won't get all the being it from the time you spend there that you would if you broke it up.

There is also the after gym experience to think about. If you push that hard are you going to crash the rest of the day because of it, or binge beyond the cals you burned?

Personally I think anything beyond 60-90 min is overkill but that's because that is what I eat and have conditioned my body for. Some can go 2+ hrs (i believe there is inter workout nutrition involved in the form of bcaa's most times).

tuckerrj

To do it ONCE, just for fun to see if you can, that shouldn't be a problem. To do it on a regular basis, it would probably be Anorexia Athletica. A form of anorexia where the person neither binges or starves, but exercises in order to pay penance for their caloric intake.

ThePhoenixIsRising

ThePhoenixIsRising wrote: »

Being at the gym that long if you aren't eating for it and your body isn't used to it isn't productive.

There are diminishing returns after you have been there past what your body is fueled and prepared for. You will begin to Half *kitten* things and won't get all the benefit from the time you spend there that you would if you broke it up.

There is also the after gym experience to think about. If you push that hard are you going to crash the rest of the day because of it, or binge beyond the cals you burned?

Personally I think anything beyond 60-90 min is overkill but that's because that is what I eat and have conditioned my body for. Some can go 2+ hrs (i believe there is inter workout nutrition involved in the form of bcaa's most times).

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Quasita

I would switch out the treadmill for some overall strength training, and perhaps consider doing it after the classes.

Not sure why kelly is confused about the lean muscle statement. If you're looking to build lean muscle, you really do need to put in resistance training as more of a focus, as aerobics are more focused on caloric burn. Yes, you'll get some resistance from boot camp and probably from the ab workout but taking some time to do focalized lifting exercises with specific muscle groups, especially groups like your arms and back (as these appear to be relatively neglected in your plans for the day) will help you balance out and develop the definition as you are cutting your body fat %.

BigGuy47

Quasita wrote: »

Not sure why kelly is confused about the lean muscle statement. If you're looking to build lean muscle,

It's a semantics thing. There's no such thing as lean muscle. There's no such thing as fat muscle. The body is made up of muscles, fat, organs, bones and fluid.

People often butcher the expression "building lean mass". Which means adding muscle. Somewhere along the way "lean mass" got turned into "lean muscle".

Words.

missiontofitness

Edit: I redact my statement. I misread your username as the person below you for some reason.

Given your name is "anachronicles", and your tagline in your profile is "Gain control, lose weight; Lose control, gain weight", I don't think you need to be worrying about the gym. Please get some help if you are struggling with an eating disorder.

astronomicals

I dont know you.

Do you think doing an Iron Man every day for 30 days is too much?

Well, tell that to Wayne Kurtz who completed a Triple DECA Iron Man

singingflutelady

why do HIIT abs and a core class in the same day? You don't need to do that much ab work

IGbnat24

If you want yo build muscle, you should lift heavy and allow for proper recovery between workouts. All that HIIT and ab work isn't gonna build muscles.

blktngldhrt

missiontofitness wrote: »

Edit: I redact my statement. I misread your username as the person below you for some reason.

Given your name is "anachronicles", and your tagline in your profile is "Gain control, lose weight; Lose control, gain weight", I don't think you need to be worrying about the gym. Please get some help if you are struggling with an eating disorder.

I thought this as well.. Especially if you're only eating 12-13 hundred calories a day and spending 2.5 hours at the gym.

arditarose

singingflutelady wrote: »

why do HIIT abs and a core class in the same day? You don't need to do that much ab work

for realz

ndj1979

with all that cardio you are going to build zero "lean muscle" I would suggest a heavy lifting program four days a week with minimal ab and cardio work build in….

JoRocka

not sure if to much but it certainly isn't going to get you the results you think you'll be getting.