Toning-can you do twice in one day?

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coastal_mom      

I was just curious your thoughts on this...would it be beneficial or hurt me if I wanted to do toning two times in one day...once in morning and then in evening. THe reason being I dont enjoy it all that much and not for too long of periods...but thought if on MWF I did some in morning and evening? I know when toning you need to have 48 hour rest time in between workouts, but do you think it would be ok and not mess anything up if I did this? just thought of this idea this morning :idea: :wink:

Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:43 pm 

PapaBanucci      

General idea is, No. At least not for any muscle group.

If you workout say, your bipceps, in the morning. You need to give them around 3 days to heal the micro-tears, to recover.

Hitting the same muscle group more frequently means that you're just tearing away at the muslces without giving them time to heal and thus build up.

More work, more pain, less results.

Technically you could 2x a day if say, you focused on different muscle groups in the morning and then different ones in the even. Nobody really does this though.

People who do 2 a day seem to split up based up cardio one time and strength the other.

Or two different types of not too heavy cardio.

Even so that is a relatively "advanced" technique and really anyone asking about it isn't yet really in understanding of the physiology going on.

So I guess while there are all sorts of technical "yes, you can do 2x a day" type responses, other than those with relatively "advanced" training technique, nobody really does.

General purpose advice is workout twice as hard the one time.

And then if you want to go for a walk or leisurely bike ride or something the other time, do that. But then that's more about fun than it is about "working out" isn't it.

I'm sure others differ in various ways on this one but this is my general experience and understanding.

Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:21 pm 

A-Rod      

you can split your weight workouts up and alternate them. do upper body and abs one day, lower body and back the other day. something like that. gives your muscle groups time to rest [as papa B said] and keeps the workouts shorter, but then you end up doing weights/toning exercises more days/week. YMMV.

Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:08 pm 

   
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