Training every day?

[EasyNow]

is it okay to train every day? and how hard for?

[Blackspear]

One of the most important lessons I have learned while trainig is that it is a very bad idea to train everyday. I have been advised by many elders in the martial arts to give my body a few days of rest through out the week because training every day will wear you out at a young age and will shorten your martial arts career nist likely leaving you to worn out by the time you reach 50 to still workout. In other words always train hard just not everyday.

[TaiChiStorm]

You are right ,but only if you mean real hard muscles excercises and this sort of thing!!
My sifu told me that he trained every day: two hours in the morning before school, and three hours in the evening!! I personally can't do that ,but I do at least one hour before school plus the regular class training two times a week. In the morning I only practice stances and form, which is physically not that hard!!
I mean if you want to improve fast, you have to train as much as you can. I didn't train every day before ,and since I started ,I have improved MUCH faster. two times a week is just too less for Kung Fu I think.
Greets
TCS

[Liokault]

I see no reson not to train every day.

The 2 important things to remember if you are going to train every day are not to do so much that you get tired of it after a few months and give up and on a physical level not to do the same thing every day.

If you train every day cycle what you do so you do not put to much stress on your body.

I ofton train almost every day but only for periods of 2-3 months max. I tend to take at least 1 day off a week and have another day of not really hard training but this still leaves me very glad at the end of the 2-3 months when i can slow it down a bit again.


On a similar note i know a guy who is very very fit.
When i started training he was the top student and was very very good. He would train every day in general fit ness/running.
Then he got to the point where he was training for 6 hours a day!!!! It got to the point where he stoped training in the club to spend more time training....it became his life.

Now this is very worrying as his knees were bad from running and he just can not stop even though the doctor told him he should not run at all (that was about 5 years ago and i still see him running)

So remember that it can get out of hand!!

[Kempo Guy]

I train close to everyday (6 - 7 days a week) and have never had a problem. I've only trained in this kind of volume for a little over a year so I don't have much experience. However, it has not had any negative effect in my training.

One of the most important factors when training everyday is never train to failure (this would probably be more accurate for weight/bodyweight training though). And as suggested, vary your intensity (i.e. day 1 - 80%, day 2 -30%, day 3 - 50% etc.)

Personally, I take a week off of training every 12 weeks. This includes cardio, bodyweight training, martial arts....

KG

[StarBoy]

I agree with a lot of people here. There's nothing wrong with training every day, as long as you don't push too hard. I'm trying to add weight training, cardio, and gymnastics into my schedule with martial arts and there's no way I can do it without training every day (except Sundays). My schedule is going to look something like this:

Mondays: martial arts, cardio
Tuesdays: martial arts, weights
Wednesdays: cardio
Thursdays: weights
Fridays, cardio, martial arts
Saturdays: gymnastics

Even with the way this schedule is spread out, I'm kind of pushing it. With this routine I'll probably take a week off on every 12th week (maybe even every 6th week depending how it goes). I also might end up cutting out gymnastics. I mean, your muscles need time to repair, which is how you get stronger, if you train every day and don't spread it out, you'll never get any gains. Even with the weight training I'mbe doing, I only do upper one day a week and lower the other, just to spread it out.

[TaoBoy]

I train most days of the week:

Monday - weights & martial arts
Tuesday - weights & martial arts
Wednesday - cardio or rest
Thursday - weights & martial arts
Friday - weights & martial arts
Saturday - martial arts
Sunday - rest

Weight training everyday is too much. Martial arts training everyday can be okay. Just listen to your body and rest when you have to.

In the words of Darth Vader - 'all too easy'.

[SevenStar]

feel free to train every day, but vary the intensity. You don't wanna go all out every day as you'll soon find yourself overtraining. What are you referring to with this question? martial arts, weight training, both?

[Viper555]

Monday:Conditioning exercises and martial arts
Tuesday:Weight Lifting and martial arts
Wednesday:Conditioning exercises and martial arts
Thursday:Conditioning exercises and martial arts
Friday:Weight Lifting and martial arts
Saturday:Conditioning exercises and martial arts
Sunday:Rest


On Monday and Wednesday I cut the workout in half since I have classes those days. I've just started training in Kung fu so I'm trying to get in shape. I also rest one week out of every 8 weeks when I just can't take it anymore.

[EasyNow]

thanks for the help, I always get lots of help on this forum. But I can't help but feel this is because most just want to show off their training schedule lol

[rubthebuddha]

i sit on my butt in an office all day looking through my window and wishing i could be outside training. :(

then evening comes and it's training and teaching and workig out. :)

all in all, most of these folks advice comes together for one thing -- find a schedule, and include rest in it, and plenty of it. and make that rest as important a part of your workout as the actual workout. because without it, you WILL burn out, and you WILL get injured or sick, and you WILL have a hard time coming back from it.

[tri2bmt]

My workout isn't very intense, I have class twice a week, do one heavy workout on my own if the time permits, stretch everyday for at least 20 minutes and then do light form or technique pracitce on the days off which means working on form and doing it slow to build muslce memory in the proper pathways.