Does anyone else work out two hours a day?

I would focus more on what you eat then adding an extra hour at this point. If you are working out that much you have to make sure that you are eating to fuel your body, and your diary is all over the place. You are already looking very healthy and thin, so if you focus on your food diary and do strength training I think you will be in excellent shape!

agreed

I do it for 1 hour a day and I am also about to kick it up a notch

I make sure that I eat all my calories alloted to me from MFP which is 1370 then I make sure to eat back at least 1/2 of my workout calories

I do 30 minutes of HIIT 4 days a week plus some strength training. You are eating your muscle away with that much exercise

i walk 30 minutes each way and then i take an hour class. and sometimes i go back in the evening.

so yeah.

I go to the gym 5x a week, for at least two hours. One of those hours will be spinning, and I get some strength training done before/after it, along with a warm up on the treadmill/crosstrainer beforehand. I always eat over 2000 calories on those days (works out to about 30-70% of my exercise calories, depending on the day!) and I've been losing weight consistently enough. On Sundays, it gets up to about 3 hours (special 2 hr spin session haha)

Not needed. It's actually much more efficient to train harder in a shorter time.

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2-2.5hrs per session 3x a week (no cardio). Not for the purpose of weight (fat) loss. That is what the calorie deficit is for.

Chris you're doing more powerlifting now right? So you also have long rests, 3-5mins in between sets?

Been PL for a while (but was training for strongman before) but it differs. Currently running sheiko and up to 3mins rest max is all I require for the main lifts. Assistance is usually supersetted and with about 90secs rest to next set e.g. SOHP, then dips with no rest and then 90secs rest at end of dips.

Oh and my rest is typically kicking the heavy bag just cause I love it :happy:

I do. sometimes I do 30 aerobics. 1to 2 hour elliptical, and I ride my bike to and from the gym, total 30 min.

I recently had a similar problem - no weight loss for 3 weeks. I work out an hour a day 5-6 days per week. I have increased this slightly (by 15-20 minutes) and have only added cardio for those extra minutes. I wear a heart rate monitor and have noticed that my body seems to adjust to whatever exercise I am doing, thus my heart rate doesn't rise as high and I burn less calories. I switched things up this week and lost two pounds! Instead of increasing your exercise you might want to try doing something different.

And, yes, like hvantassel said, your body absolutely becomes efficient when you do the same thing all the time. You definitely need to mix it up and also do less time. Your body is probably "bored" (ie efficient and has to work less hard to do the same work it used to) and also overworked, which is not the best combination.

Good luck! Experiment and find something that works for you...that involves a lot less time!

so I think I am going to up my gym time and up my calories and hope the two balance out

Increasing your calories will make your deficit smaller.
Increasing gym time will make your deficit bigger.

They don't balance out, they cancel each other out so you're right back to where you started.

Not necessarily. I don't know the context your referring to considering the quote, but eating more can facilitate extra gym time without creating a bigger deficit, that's not a bad thing. Extra calories consumed may not actually equate to an equal amount of gym time......it could be beneficial in either scenario depending on someones goals.

Her goals are weight loss. For performance reasons I would agree with what you're saying. I didn't say her deficit would be bigger. I will use a cheap example, she eats 1,300 calories a day and she increases it to 500 calories a day and she burns 500 calories a day(this likely won't happen) she will be at 1,300 net calories, right where she started.

More than likely, she won't burn an equal amount. She will more than likely burn less, it's easier to take calories from diet, not so much easier to burn it off.

I hear ya. I've never actually counted calories while losing my 60 lbs, now I'm mostly mucking with composition. I found calorie restriction very one dimensional. The method I use now is lift weight. When progress stalls in lift weight, I eat more, not a lot, but more and increase lift weight until I stall again, then repeat that process. I can't be bothered with counting considering the inaccuracies........then again I'm not looking for immediate results, the process is what I like and enjoy, and I'll continue this way indefinitely.

That sounds pretty interesting, never seen/heard anything like that. I have been doing this for a very long time, what type of progress are you making?

Originally when I was 245lbs about 7 years ago and decided it was time for change, I'm not getting any younger, I starved myself, not literally, but it seems like it at the time, taking into consideration I was overeating, which was more relevant than I though looking back. Lost 40 lbs over 7 months and got under 200, which was my goal. Never did any weight training, and my exercise at that time was cycling, hockey and golf basically, but no gym time. A good friend got me interested in lifting and said it would help get rid of some of the fat I still had kicking around, lol. Of course made a lot of strength gains at the beginning and immediately saw an increase in muscle mass and at that time I was eating maintenance, that's when it all started. If I want to shed weight I eat less food and try to maintain lift weight and when I can't and start going the other way I eat a little more, just a little to help maintain lift weight, but knowing while I'm losing weight, that I will continue to lose ground on my lift weight, so best case scenario is I look leaner in the mirror, the mirror is the ultimate and only gauge of my progress. I do from time to time check my weight and count my calories to make sure that what I fundamentally started out thinking is still close, like macros, and overall nutrition. I'm bulking right now, not really, just trying to add some muscle. I was in a pretty serious accident and couldn't workout for 1/2 year and lost lots of muscle and eventually ended up around 180. I'm just over 205 now and will stop when I reach 215, and start going the other way. Lots of fun.

I do two hour workout 3 days a week and one hour 3 days a week and the last day cant be anything from just over an hour to three

when was training for a race i would do 3 to 4 hours once a week

I do 30 minutes of HIIT 4 days a week plus some strength training. You are eating your muscle away with that much exercise

Huh? I thought the whole idea was NOT doing exercise eats muscle away.

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