2+ hours. Am I over training?

[xnotoriousx]

Nah if you are still lifting hard then do the 2 hours!!! I had a friend that done it natrally 3 hours a day 7 days a week and he was bigger then anyone i know!

I think its all down to the induvidual

This is a BIG thing i've been going over in my head a lot lately and I agree with it.

There's a guy I know that does a total of 20 to 25 worksets each day and works out for about 5 days before taking 1-2 days off and he is a beast. If I was to try and do that, my body would without a doubt get injured or suffer extreme soreness and joint pain...


To the OP - I think there's something you should give a try, it's called 60 second rest periods, something that I think is the most overlooked thing in bodybuilding when people are wondering "what am I doing wrong?"

I used to spend 1.5-2 hours in the gym each day, then one day I actually used the timer on my ipod after sets and that was my first time i've ever vomited in the gym... Give it a try bud, you'll be good and spent after 12 work sets and 45 minutes. Good luck!

[GuybrushThreepwod]

I think there's something you should give a try, it's called 60 second rest periods!

I do use a timer but my rest periods are 1:30-2:00 depending on the exercise. Never any longer than 2 minutes though. For the calf-raises and crunches, I only wait 60 sec. Also, I was under the impression that a shorter rest period is used for a cutting phase, not for bulking. Am I mistaken on that?

[xnotoriousx]

I do use a timer but my rest periods are 1:30-2:00 depending on the exercise. Never any longer than 2 minutes though. For the calf-raises and crunches, I only wait 60 sec. Also, I was under the impression that a shorter rest period is used for a cutting phase, not for bulking. Am I mistaken on that?

If you use a timer, then cool. I was just thinking it could be your problem as it was mine at one point. Try keeping it to 60 second, keep that intensity UP!

These are the times that work for me.
60sec on smaller muscle groups
60-90sec for bigger compound movements
90-120sec for heavy day lifts like DL/Squat

[GuybrushThreepwod]

It's not that I'm even having any problems, I just want to make sure that I'm not wasting my efforts. I'll keep on doing this routine and see what happens. I haven't hit a wall yet so everything seems good.

[Klimax]

I you grow training two hours, it doesn't mean that you wouldn't grow more training 1h.