What If You Could Spend 24 Hours At the Gym

 


Pack your bags, get your energy drinks and grab your toothbrush along with it because you are about to go spend your entire day at the gym. That means 24 hours of exercise, resting, eating, probably a lot of social media scrolling and then back at it again! Just imagine the amount of workouts you could fit into a day if you were able to just hang about at the gym, with all your other necessities with you.


If you think you would be leaving the gym the next day looking like The Rock with your crazy pump, you are definitely mistaken. Let’s assume you start your 24 hour journey with a great back workout, around 1 hour taken, and then you of course decide to rest and eat. Maybe you get a bit bored after your break and decide you’ll start working out a different muscle group, after all you have 24 hours at the gym.


But wait, you feel pretty dumped. Even though you are about to train something different, and you have already eaten and rested, you still feel something hollow about this workout, but you keep going! You even end up finishing this one! Great Job. What's not great about this next workout, is the fact that no matter what argument is made, it will be a fact that you were not able to go and perform at the intensity you actually can, because your body was already worn out from your first workout.


Let's step back into reality, put that toothbrush back in place, take the pillow out of your bag, there was no way you were about to spend 24 hours at the gym. But there are athletes who workout twice, maybe even thrice a day! 


                                       
                                     Joe Delaney, A Fitness Influencer Who Exercises Twice A Day

These are elite and experienced athletes who most probably have a career in this field of sports and athleticism, which allows them to fit such a rigorous task into their daily routines, they are capable and have shown success in boosting their overall performance and gains.


What you are forgetting as a beginner is that these athletes have world class nutritionists, trainers and training plans that massively change things when compared with a regular person who wants to workout multiple times a day, thinking they will see gains like never before, simply because they spend more time at the gym. 


The gym is just where you break your body down by testing it to its limits, but growth comes from the healing and rest after. If we miss sleep, lack rest and nutrition, then working out so much leads to harm instead of improvement.


"It can really tax your neuromuscular system," Mentore says. "Increasing your likelihood for injury, disrupting sleep patterns, suppressing your immune system, and many other symptoms if you don't take the time to recover appropriately." (Source: verywellfit.com )


Once again, ‘Less is More’ comes back to take the cake for a phrase that applies in quite a few places, even in the world of fitness. If you have the time to afford two workouts a day, there is no one stopping you, you might even see the benefits in the long-term. The drawbacks start appearing when you do not have the time to take care of the other necessities that come with wanting to work out multiple times a day, which means adequate sleep, nutrition and a good plan to go along with it. 


I have left a source below where you get a great look at the benefits of working out twice a day, but you also get to see the drawbacks it can bring, with some sound advice for beginners. Another link shows a fitness Youtuber who has successfully implemented two workouts and explains how to smartly divide one workout into two sessions.


 Let's just laugh at the fact that 24 hours a day is something even The Rock might raise a white flag on, so we should test our body, as much as we can let it rest as well.



Should you be Working Out Twice A Day? Here's what Experts Say

https://www.verywellfit.com/working-out-twice-a-day-4136241


My Daily Workout Routine (why I train twice a day)











Comments

  1. Yaseen11 June 2025 at 14:59

    As a gym freak, 24 hours in the gym sounded like a dream but the way you broke it down made me realize it’s not as great as it seems. That’s amazing!

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  2. Hamna Waseem11 June 2025 at 22:36

    oh no thats scary

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  3. umaima sarfaraz12 June 2025 at 01:25

    no thanks

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  4. umaima sarfaraz12 June 2025 at 01:25

    but good breakdown!

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  5. m12 June 2025 at 12:10

    The main thing I got from this was that comparison truly is a thief of joy, you broke it down in a unique scenario how it's just not feasible for the average gym goer to push themselves to these extremes

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  6. Amaan Bhatti12 June 2025 at 19:15

    Thats just doing too much

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  7. Arooma hasan12 June 2025 at 21:03

    Interesting

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