How Long in the Gym?

[Primal]

Wow, good to see the old threads getting some love still. Prae is right, I'm training for 2 hours every day for 6 days now and I'm seeing more growth. Cortisol is only an issue if you literally destroy yourself and then try to keep going but even then it's very difficult to reach that point and at that point it's just flat out overtraining anyways- the 'true' kind of overtraining. As long as you pace yourself and train with common sense you should be fine. Also ta-kid has a good point, it wasn't until I started training for longer that I noticed that my body responds better, everyone is different and people need to find out what works best for them instead of listening to people on the internet who half the times don't even have any scientific studies, training experience or years to back up what they are saying.

-Primal

[EricPowers]

The only thing matters is what kind of workout you are doing. Yeah generally speaking, if you spend 60 minutes in the gym actually working out, most likely that should be pretty good. However, it all depends on what you are doing. I use to do cardio one day, weight lifting the other, MMA style exercises (Burpees, etc) the third and I finished off each workout with a 20 - 30 minute run. It took me an hour at most. Anything more then that would be overkill and unnecessary unless you are a pro bodybuilder. I'm not so I can't comment on that.

[Praetorian]

The training you do is dependent on your goal. You cannot compare mma , bodybuilding, running, football, OLY weightlifting etc. All require vastly different training forms, duration, intensity, recovery etc.

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[LilleyK]

The age old question. I just workout until I start to feel I've had enough. Sometimes this is 45 minutes sometimes it's 2 hours.