Does anyone else work out two hours a day?

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  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    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.

    :noway:

    Use it or lose it. Doing resistance training (and getting adequate protein) will help retain LBM.

    Mass cardio and no resistance training (even with adequate protein intake) = large losses of LBM. Ask me how I know :indifferent:
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    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.

    :noway:

    Use it or lose it. Doing resistance training (and getting adequate protein) will help retain LBM.

    Mass cardio and no resistance training (even with adequate protein intake) = large losses of LBM. Ask me how I know :indifferent:

    Listen to this dude.

    Incidentally if you do want to work out for two hours per day involving high amounts of steady state cardio then split it into two one hour session and leave quite a few hours between them, preferably morning and evening. The hormonal environment turns catabolic around 80 minutes from the studies I have seen (unless you know what you are doing with workout nutrition and supplementation.)
  • lovemitch125
    lovemitch125 Posts: 257 Member
    Heck no...that's insane! I have better things to do with my time than spend 2 hours a day working out!

    :laugh: exactly. Keep a workout plan you can stick to even when you are maintaining.
    Myself for example: 12-25 minutes cardio ; 20 minutes abs ; 20 minutes weight training = 52 minutes - 65 minutes / 6 times a week.
    I go in the morning, usually around 830am-930am.

    This has been working very well :)
  • Galloping4God
    Galloping4God Posts: 46 Member
    I tend to workout close to that in 2 different sessions of two different (and sometimes three different) intensities.
  • CrazyTrackLady
    CrazyTrackLady Posts: 1,337 Member
    This could be twice a day for 1 hour intervals or for 2 hours at a whack? I read this article about that victoria secret model and she said her routine involved working out 2 hours a day 6 days a week. Now granted she had drastic circumstances, my diet wont be nearly as small I want to be healthy. But I was thinking that two hours a day 6 days a week could be what I need to get out of the 190s, I have been plateaued at 195-193 for 20 days now working out 4 days a week and eating healthy (minus this week).

    What do you think, too drastic or is it good in moderation, does anyone do something similar? I lost 20lbs and then stalled, not sure if its the fat turning to muscle or what but I need to adjust something

    You are using a MODEL'S exercise routine to determine if you should work out as much as she does? That's like asking if we should follow the models' diets as well.

    Models are paid to, and expected to remain, thin at all times (unless they are specifically larger sized models). To aspire to work out as much as they do is ridiculous, in my opinion, if you have no desire to get THAT thin.

    Worry about the inches you want to lose, for you. Don't try to hold yourself to such a ridiculous standard.

    PS: IF no one has told you yet, fat does not turn to muscle. Fat cells shrink, muscles grow.
  • mink63
    mink63 Posts: 35
    For about a month I worked out for an hour in the morning and an hour at night (both cardio) and I only lost 1 more pound that month than the month before. Maybe if you do 1 hour of cardio and 1 hour of lifting that's a different story. But with all the cardio I just wasted my time and always felt on edge and in a bad mood.
  • elyelyse
    elyelyse Posts: 1,454 Member
    for the love of everything holy, will someone make a sticky about how you can't build muscle eating 1200 net calories a day and doing cardio?? i don't mean a link inside a sticky, i mean a post at the top that never goes away that says "NO YOU AREN'T GAINING MUSCLE." please? :sad:
  • atb0821
    atb0821 Posts: 458 Member
    Nope! Not time fo dat.
  • FreeHugs0150
    FreeHugs0150 Posts: 15
    Wow....wish I had time for 2 hour work outs...but I work a lot. I work out at least an hour at least 6 days a week and im steadily losing. I also eat back my exercise calories...well not all. I was told by my trainer that anything over an hour makes your body go into a different mode and it becomes bad for you or doesn't do anything. But to each their own.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    I couldn't justify spending that much time improving my physique. Unless it's necessary for a job like modeling, it just seems kinda selfish to me.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,021 Member
    I didnt look at her diary before I said that. I make sure I net 1200 a day and I believe that is fine. I dont see how I would be losing muscle when I am walking 2 miles a day! I think I am building muscle from it :) just my opinon
    You don't build muscle from walking. If that were true, then walking mail people would be behemoths.

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  • nainai0585
    nainai0585 Posts: 199 Member
    I work out 1.45hrs 4-5 days a week, depending solely on when my parents need me to drive them to where they need to go and when the daycare is open at the gym. I usually do 45-50 minutes of cardio on the treadmill (split into 2 different sessions at the beginning and end of the workout, hill climb, no running, at a brisk walk) then the rest of the time is devoted to strength training and my stretches afterwards. My main goal for the strength training is to stabalize and tighten my core (better balance) and strengthen my thighs and legs (my heaviest weights are for my back, abs, and legs, between 50lbs to 120lbs depending on the machine and which muscles are being utilized), and my upper body has the lightest weights (between 10lbs to 40lbs) as I'm not needing to build those muscles as much as the others.
    I also do 1 hour of entense equestrian riding weekly, which is the reason why I need to strengthen my core, back, and legs. The end goal is for me to be able to ride the horse through the walk/trot/canter as well as jumps without stirrups.

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