Need a twice weekly workout regime

[chrismlarge]

Hi there, have recently joined the gym again in order to lose some weight and put on some muscle, however I am only able to go for 2 hours on a monday and a tuesday afternoon. Can any body give me an idea of what to do in those 2 sessions so I can get maximum benefit from them?

I am 32/15st/185cm and have been in an out of the gym all my life so am not a newbie. Thanks.

[Driller]

chrismlarge said:

Hi there, have recently joined the gym again in order to lose some weight and put on some muscle, however I am only able to go for 2 hours on a monday and a tuesday afternoon. Can any body give me an idea of what to do in those 2 sessions so I can get maximum benefit from them?

I am 32/15st/185cm and have been in an out of the gym all my life so am not a newbie. Thanks.

For a start, don't do more than an hour at a time, 2 hours won't do you any good at all.

[_DeeJay_]

Driller said:

chrismlarge said:

Hi there, have recently joined the gym again in order to lose some weight and put on some muscle, however I am only able to go for 2 hours on a monday and a tuesday afternoon. Can any body give me an idea of what to do in those 2 sessions so I can get maximum benefit from them?

I am 32/15st/185cm and have been in an out of the gym all my life so am not a newbie. Thanks.

For a start, don't do more than an hour at a time, 2 hours won't do you any good at all.

I'm not so sure. Your available time isn't ideal, especially with no rest in between your sessions.

I can easily spend an hour doing a reasonably simple routine, but you could add some cardio after the weights if you can't spare time to do so on any of the other days.

[Driller]

_DeeJay_ said:

Driller said:

chrismlarge said:

Hi there, have recently joined the gym again in order to lose some weight and put on some muscle, however I am only able to go for 2 hours on a monday and a tuesday afternoon. Can any body give me an idea of what to do in those 2 sessions so I can get maximum benefit from them?

I am 32/15st/185cm and have been in an out of the gym all my life so am not a newbie. Thanks.

For a start, don't do more than an hour at a time, 2 hours won't do you any good at all.

I'm not so sure. Your available time isn't ideal, especially with no rest in between your sessions.

I can easily spend an hour doing a reasonably simple routine, but you could add some cardio after the weights if you can't spare time to do so on any of the other days.

Sorry, are you suggesting this guy does a two hour work out Monday afternoon and then a two hour workout Tuesday afternoon? It depends on intensity I suppose but it doesn't sound right to me.

[_DeeJay_]

Driller said:

_DeeJay_ said:

Driller said:

chrismlarge said:

Hi there, have recently joined the gym again in order to lose some weight and put on some muscle, however I am only able to go for 2 hours on a monday and a tuesday afternoon. Can any body give me an idea of what to do in those 2 sessions so I can get maximum benefit from them?

I am 32/15st/185cm and have been in an out of the gym all my life so am not a newbie. Thanks.

For a start, don't do more than an hour at a time, 2 hours won't do you any good at all.

I'm not so sure. Your available time isn't ideal, especially with no rest in between your sessions.

I can easily spend an hour doing a reasonably simple routine, but you could add some cardio after the weights if you can't spare time to do so on any of the other days.

Sorry, are you suggesting this guy does a two hour work out Monday afternoon and then a two hour workout Tuesday afternoon? It depends on intensity I suppose but it doesn't sound right to me.

I was suggesting that it's not ideal to work out on consecutive days and it's not ideal to train with weights for more than an hour.

However, given his time constraints, whatever routine he chooses isn't going to be ideal.

So either he mixes cardio and weights on both days and does a 2 day split, or does a full body workout on one day and some cardio on the next (which is probably the more sensible).

There's no reason the cardio couldn't use his 2 hours - perhaps a medium intensity cycle ride for fat burning (assuming he doesn't want to do high intensity interval training)?

[Dale19]

Is there really no way you can train on another day? You could get a solid routine if the days were spaced a bit better, monday, and say thursday or friday.

I suppose you could do something like, squat and deadlift on the monday, with the asociated back assistance, bb/db rows, couple of sets of shrugs, followed with a few curls.

Then on the tuesday go for maybe, push/strict press, bit of benching, mixture of incline and close grip, i`d personally switch the order of the bench and overhead work each week.

Mondays would be quite a long session, tuesdays not so bad, but i personally think you can easily get away with it, due to having 5 days to recover, providing your diets adequette.

[Driller]

_DeeJay_ said:

Driller said:

_DeeJay_ said:

Driller said:

chrismlarge said:

Hi there, have recently joined the gym again in order to lose some weight and put on some muscle, however I am only able to go for 2 hours on a monday and a tuesday afternoon. Can any body give me an idea of what to do in those 2 sessions so I can get maximum benefit from them?

I am 32/15st/185cm and have been in an out of the gym all my life so am not a newbie. Thanks.

For a start, don't do more than an hour at a time, 2 hours won't do you any good at all.

I'm not so sure. Your available time isn't ideal, especially with no rest in between your sessions.

I can easily spend an hour doing a reasonably simple routine, but you could add some cardio after the weights if you can't spare time to do so on any of the other days.

Sorry, are you suggesting this guy does a two hour work out Monday afternoon and then a two hour workout Tuesday afternoon? It depends on intensity I suppose but it doesn't sound right to me.

I was suggesting that it's not ideal to work out on consecutive days and it's not ideal to train with weights for more than an hour.

Ok, I didn't get that from your post.

Dale19 said:

Is there really no way you can train on another day?

Good point. Surely he could find just 30 minutes on a saturday to go for a run or something. And splitting the rest up into several 20 or 30 minute routines would be way better.