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2002/10/17, 11:22 AM
Can I do part of my strength trainign in the morning and then the other in the afternoon? I want to do some of the ab work now while I am bored at work. (i work at a place conducive to exercise.) And then later on today I will be able to do my back and foreatm routing. Is there any benefit to doing it all in the same session or do I get just as much out of it if I do them at different times?
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2002/10/17, 12:17 PM
It's been my experience that you can do your abs early and often throughout the day if you like.
While in the military and training up for some competitions, I used to perform between 5-700 situps per day throughout the day. usually a hundred or so a sitting.
This was in addition to the leg-lifts, and crunches that we did in the morning for PT. Never bothered me, and I'm not anything special. As a matter of fact, I was one of the more toned down types in my unit. Others I think were hitting the 1000 mark in a day.
Weekends were complete rest days.
When we went out into the field, we did not keep as intense of a schedule...we would be gone for a month or so at a time.
If you are doing crunches and other calestenic type excercises with your abs...fire it up... If your stacking weights on your gut, that's a whole nuther thing. There ya need to be careful, cause you can give yourseld a hernia, or other nasty injury.
Anyhow, that's my $.02
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2002/10/17, 09:23 PM
Some of your top "pros" work out twice daily. Of course, they can and also have the benefit of "added testosterone". But as long as you are not doing the same body part each time, I see no reason why this is not ok. As far as abs, it used to be thought that they could be trained every day, as much as you want, and all that stuff. I disagree with that. Abs are a muscle also, and to train for ab size and strength, why wouldn't they need time to recouperate also? I train my abs twice per week with weight . I will say I have pretty good abs. Now there was a time I was training them daily, working the living sh_t out of them, and never had any abs to show. I wonder why that was? hhhmmmm...All I know is what worked for me. Muscle is muscle.
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