Lifting Weights Twice Per Day?/??

[BrutalHoney]

You know... I've toyed with things like this over the years, and I think too much dogma gets into the discussion, even by accident.

Here's what the bottom line is, I think: total volume.

If you're able to do, say, 15 quality sets (you know what they are...) of hard chest work total a week on a three-day split, but on a two-day split you only get 12 quality sets, week after week; well, a three-day split is better for your chest growth. Provided you don't over-train into inflammation blah blah whatever.

Likewise, if you can, week after week, get more total volume in (that means without injury, because injury takes volume to zero) by working out some in the morning and some in night... assuming you have the freakin' time... well, do it! But if you find your triceps crapping out after the 6th set not matter what you do? Eh, probably not worth the trouble.

Now, I haven't really experimented with, say, doing 10 sets throughout the day with an hour rest between each one, so maybe there's a drop off in results because you never really tax your muscles hard enough with so much of a spread. But! realistically, since you don't live in a gym (maybe you work there?), and since warmups matter (even for you young guys!), you probably just want to maximize your week-after-week volume, eat enough, sleep enough... inject enough... and definitely avoid any lingering discomfort and especially pain.

And that's about it.

This shit ain't rocket science.

 

[SFGiants]

Since this is the Powerlifting Thread, if you are lifting twice a day your doing something wrong.

No way in hell a good powerlifting program is going to have you lift 2 x a day because your initial session is going to run you into the ground.

DE days can be much harder than ME days, but ME days are maxing then followed by more heavy lifting .

Can you lift twice a day? Why not, but no powerlifter is busting ass twice a day.

My powerlifting days are behind me now and have been for awhile.

 

[DogMogul]

When I first made this post, I was just starting HRT—using enclomiphene—and my testosterone jumped from 265 to 892 in five weeks. I was also on samoralin, an HGH secretagogue, and I felt so refreshed after training that I honestly thought I could double up some days.

But then @GeneticFreak - a member on this forum, called me out—said if I could train twice a day, I was probably being a bitch. That stuck with me.

Fast forward to now: the way I train today? No shot I’m doing two-a-days. I’m going to failure, hitting PRs, pushing intensity, and targeting every muscle group twice a week on a five-day split. The CNS fatigue is real—chills, blood pressure spikes, and I’m wiped for hours post-session.

So just to clarify: where I’m at now, with the weights, the volume, and the intensity—two-a-days would be insane. I can barely recover from one.

Appreciate the forum, the support, and the accountability. Let’s keep getting after it.


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[SFGiants]

When I first made this post, I was just starting HRT—using enclomiphene—and my testosterone jumped from 265 to 892 in five weeks. I was also on samoralin, an HGH secretagogue, and I felt so refreshed after training that I honestly thought I could double up some days.

But then @GeneticFreak - a member on this forum, called me out—said if I could train twice a day, I was probably being a bitch. That stuck with me.

Fast forward to now: the way I train today? No shot I’m doing two-a-days. I’m going to failure, hitting PRs, pushing intensity, and targeting every muscle group twice a week on a five-day split. The CNS fatigue is real—chills, blood pressure spikes, and I’m wiped for hours post-session.

So just to clarify: where I’m at now, with the weights, the volume, and the intensity—two-a-days would be insane. I can barely recover from one.

Appreciate the forum, the support, and the accountability. Let’s keep getting after it.


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We all start off not knowing what we are doing, but just showing up is better than not.

Some never get it and the lucky ones do by being taught. I kept showing up and met the right people.

I thought I knew what I was doing until I joined a powerlifting team with a private gym that got me exposted to some of the best in the world.

I had no clue how to train other than functionally. But to grow and get strong, that took help form others.

 

[BrutalHoney]

Since this is the Powerlifting Thread, if you are lifting twice a day your doing something wrong.

No way in hell a good powerlifting program is going to have you lift 2 x a day because your initial session is going to run you into the ground.

DE days can be much harder than ME days, but ME days are maxing then followed by more heavy lifting .

Can you lift twice a day? Why not, but no powerlifter is busting ass twice a day.

My powerlifting days are behind me now and have been for awhile.

Well, depends on what you mean.

The West Side guys did something like this... I forget the details... But a lot of it was just little accessory stuff. Like, yet more push-downs for triceps, maybe those wheelbarrow pushes with the long handles, that kind of thing. They weren't maxing out twice a day, but they'd still do whatever little things.

 

[SFGiants]

Well, depends on what you mean.

The West Side guys did something like this... I forget the details... But a lot of it was just little accessory stuff. Like, yet more push-downs for triceps, maybe those wheelbarrow pushes with the long handles, that kind of thing. They weren't maxing out twice a day, but they'd still do whatever little things.

Recovery work, blood flow work, mobility work, cardio, yes, lift like I feel he was asking, no.

I came from a well known powerlifting gym, we based off westside training.

The thought process is we lift extremely heavy and get very dense, so that kind of work is prehab and recovery.

Most just do it after training and off days, guys that did it later in the day didn't have time to after training, job or whatever.

Train early, go to work, comeback and finish off the rest, the fluff stuff we called it.

 

[GigaLifts]

I would honestly say follow your heart. But the main thing is can you consistently lift weights daily twice a day throughout the week? It might be less harm done if you do 1 day of lifting twice while having more energy, then leave the next day for recovery. I am quite old school so I much rather lifting weights by differentiating body parts as I go through lifting 5 days a week. Simply put, using different movements each day for each body part makes sense to me. I may work the same group two days in a row, but maybe not twice in one day. Just personal preference.