Just curious how many of you train twice a day. I usually do weights 3 days and cardio 3 days a week first thing in the morning.
I'm starting a new job that has a gym and would like to add either some bodyweight exercises or jogging. I'm not doing this to try and speed up fat loss, I just like the exercise and it will help kill my lunch time.
Anyone have any experience doing something like this?
By the way, I'm currently trying to lose some Body fat and eat 6 small meals a day consisting of lean meats, good carbs (oats, sweet potatoes, etc) and veggies.
Reagan123,
It's okay to train multiple sessions in a day as long as you're balancing the mode, volume and intensity of these sessions in a logical manner. Like some of the posts said, the balancing of MMA athletes (or grapplers/judo guys) would probably include strength training, cardio, skill/sport specific training.
If your first session is training hard on the weights in a day, it may be advisable to work technique for your skill specific training in that same day as opposed to hard sparring. Or, if you're training hard sparring as your first session, you may want lower intensity longer duration cardio as your second session.
Most serious MMA athletes are training multiple sessions. If you don't balance your training, time off due to injury/overtraining is inevitable, so be careful and train smart by balancing appropriately. Good luck.
I do on days that I do jiujitsu -- I'll do both CrossFit and jiujitsu. I try to do them on opposite ends of the day.
Just pay careful attention to your sleeping and eating and you should be alright. And make sure you do get some total rest days in there, too. Only working out once one day doesn't make it a rest day - you should have a day or two where you do nothing.
I do weights in the Am and cardio at lunch. A few nights a week I train stand up or grappling. That being said I am not pushing anything to hard and just trying to maintain.
I shoot for around ten workouts a week..I always take one full day off. Personally, I will usually try to do one light workout and one hard workout a day rather then two hard workouts.(Hard is relative I suppose..I mean really pushing your bodies limits kinda hard). Lots of sleep and good calories if you are going to do two a days for a four to six week training camp before a fight. I like cardio/running/weight/plyos in the morning and skill work(striking/wrestling/rolling) in the evening but this is just what works for me. Good luck.