 First question is from official bruce love. What are your thoughts on two days? Two days is this is when you're working out twice a day Instead of once a day and one of the reasons why people will do this Is because they're training at a very high level lots of volume And to have the energy and the capacity to finish an entire all of your workout at one time Is difficult so splitting it up allows you to finish it with with good energy Now here's the deal. I love it if if you're at this level and you're training with that much volume Splitting up your workouts one of the best things you could possibly do the game the convenience factor is a problem Yeah, they're probably thinking of like the two super intense workouts like back to back like we used to do that a lot when we were playing Football and any other sport where it was like you're trying to cram, you know as much intensity in as possible and Yeah, the way that you're talking about it is probably the only way I apply it now today in terms of like It's a little more reasonable But I'm just basically splitting almost in half or maybe Just adding a little bit more to to the next workout so I can get the benefit I hate it and I'll tell you why I hate it and before I go into why I hate it I want to preface this with one. I've done it a lot I did it a ton especially when I was competing and we've written a program maps pd that has it so I'm not saying that nobody should do it and there's not a percentage of the population that there's there's lots of value to it So that exists I hate it for the majority because I think that it's a very Unrealistic thing to sustain and when you stop doing it It really throws off you you got to really know what you're doing with your diet If you were decided if because this is what I see in my experience the people that want to do this They're doing it because they're wanting to do more They're wanting to do more to get results faster to get to their goal quicker And and they're motivated by a wedding. They're motivated by a vacation They're motivated by a competition they're doing and the theory behind two of days is get to your goal faster And that to me is the wrong message for that person I do see lots of value in it and the Extremely consistent person who's been lifting for years And is trying to scale up their volume and continue Maybe they're into competing like that makes sense to me And let me tell you like I didn't get to this point like I was competing without doing double days It was when I got to the professional level because from The year leading up to competing I ran mostly like an anabolic type of program then when I started hitting stage I was moving to something more like maps aesthetic Then I was moving into something like map split when I was still in amateur And then by the time I got to the professional level I had scaled to the volume of pd But it was that I'm you're talking about not missing a single fucking workout diet anything for almost four years straight for me During that time to progress to the point where I saw value and adding an additional workout to my training I've got incredible results Leading all the way up to that point without ever having to push to two a days two days so I don't like it for most people and I remember we were very hesitant to even write pd We wrote all the other programs first before pd for that exact reason Well, there's some prerequisites like if you if you can do your whole workout in one workout And you're doing it appropriately and properly then stick to that if you get to the point where you're doing so much volume So many exercises that it's just you know, it's by the end of your workout You're just you're wasting your time because you're fatigued that's when it becomes a good idea to split now. Here's a deal For the advanced person. This may be a great idea. This is how bodybuilders work out back in the in the 70s and 80s They used to call what's called a double split Routine where they would split the body parts up, but they'd also split it From morning and evening and that for on a consistent basis that works great But for the average person here's how you can utilize Something like this. It's as a sporadic way to get your body to change and adapt You if you're consistent you're really in your pretty fit Once a day is perfectly fine, but every once in a while try this every once in a while If you have time to kill and you got a whole day ahead of you Go to the gym or in your garage. This is even better if you have a garage gym and do 30 minute workout every two or three hours Do, you know three sets of squats and the two sets of bench press and some overhead press something like that every Other hour You more than two days you could do three or four of these workouts I've done this occasionally when I say occasionally. I'm talking about like once You know every three months or so I get phenomenal results and gains from doing that And I think it's because the body responds really well Really well to frequency just frequency. Yeah splitting up the workout. Okay. So I I there is another situation where I do see Okay for somebody who maybe is at like a beginner level and I do this this I do quite a bit now I also we have a podcast in a gym. We have you know access to gyms everywhere We go all the time and so it's very easy for us to do this many times I'm following like a maps anabolic type of protocol And I only do two or three of the exercises Right first thing in the morning or whatever and I get that's all I only had a little bit of time And then I come back later in the afternoon in the day and I finish it Like that's two a day, right? That's considered that but I'm also managing my volume the same as if I was just going to do it In one workout. So I do see lots of value in that like people think That to get a good workout you have to have this intense one hour Kill yourself routine and that couldn't be further from the truth There is nothing wrong with you taking your current workout plan and splitting it up in two workouts That are more like half hour workouts and that there's there's a lot of benefit to that And I think that's valuable when I think of people that ask me questions about two a day You think they're gonna be like an hour and a half in the morning hour and a half Yeah, or even just an hour an hour of intense training, you know I'm saying they're wanting to do more That's what they're trying to do to promote faster results And again, uh, you you don't need to do that to get incredible results And I would wait to scale to that until I've if I've gone through all of the maps programs Then I mean that's really how it's designed Like imagine you'd got like you're somebody who's been listening since the beginning And you have never missed you've consecutive consecutively went through maps program after program after program We have Scaled them like that and the reason why ped was last is because it is the it's the peak of the pyramid Yeah, it's the pentacle So if you if that's like you're gonna be your profession and like I'm gonna be a professional bodybuilder or You know a professional athlete and I want to ramp myself up to that kind of volume and intensity altogether That's like you're stretching yourself and even then you don't want to stay there for very long Like that's that's something that you're you're testing yourself. Just like if it's you know, like I we talk about maxing out You know stuff like that like there's times where that's appropriate. I feel To to be able to know where you stand Well, since since you got your gym at home Have you experimented with the like doing a few sets of your the hour while you're at home type of deal I I do that all the time. Isn't it great, dude It's it's so liberating because Honestly, the most of the time when you're thinking about working out The biggest thing is like, oh my god, I I don't want to get started and then stop and you know You want all that momentum once you like free yourself of that and you just start just grabbing stuff and going And you kind of have an idea of what you need to accomplish for the day Like I'll I'll start with bench and all or squad or whatever it is and you know I'm just focused completely on that and then it's like, oh, well, I got to go pick the kids up Or oh, I got to go take, you know go to soccer practice Then I'll come back and then I'm hitting something else And it's and it's like you just do it in spurts and you get the same if not better results I did it yesterday in the day before both one one day. I was Talking to Rachel and Eli I was out in the gym. I was doing bench press and some shoulder work. I would do Three sets set down the way I go in the office. I'd sit down. I was talking to them for 15 20 minutes Oh, let's work on this overlooking at videos to go back out did a few more sets I did the yesterday again with Doug Doug was in here We're doing like bookkeeping and numbers and shit. I was out there squatting come back in and then I Talked to Doug for 15 minutes go back out like yeah, I know if you have that luxury to That I'm it's inconvenient. Yeah a lot of people. Yeah, it's it but for most people it's not great for my endurance though I'll be honest like like getting it all back to back to back is like. Oh, sure. Sure. Sure. But yeah That's probably the only thing I could say