Two a Day workouts and possibility of Overtraining?

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hello-

I recently switched from 5/3/1 (which I had been doing since the beginning of May) to the Bridge 1.0. I am in week 3 now, and was wondering about the viability of adding volume via once or possibly twice weekly 2 a day workouts. Regarding that I have a few questions:

  1. From the various BBM content that I have consumed it is my understanding that your position is that the risk of overtraining is largely over exaggerated by people. If this is accurate, do you believe such a plan (once or twice weekly 2 a day workouts added on top of already existing Bridge 1.0 programmed workouts) would benefit a post-novice lifter with the time/inclination and recovery resources?

  2. If so, what sort of work would you add?

  3. and what sort of signs of overtraining should I watch for to potentially discontinue the 2 a day workouts?

Thank you for your time and all of the information you make available- it has been a tremendous help to me.

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SPG,

Thanks for the post! To your questions:

  1. It depends, as context is important here. I don’t think that would be of benefit to someone running The Bridge, no, but perhaps a more advanced trainee who requires substantially greater training volume to progress.

  2. I wouldn’t add anything for you. For the hypothetical other person, it would depend on their goals and overall program.

  3. I don’t think overtraining syndrome exists in resistance training and thus, monitoring for that would be…ummm…hard. I think monitoring session RPE and acute;chronic workload can be useful, however I would not change your current programming based on these elements.

-Jordan

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Sounds good to me, thanks for the information!