isometrics

[john13]

I am 72 and have been doing quite a lot of isometrics but if I do them all in one session I sometimes get a headache afterwards.Will the results be just as good if I do a few isos in morning and the rest during afternoon and or evening?I've tried this today and I was completely free of headaches.

[blackbelt]

I second what zenon stated.

For one thing, that IS what John advocates.

And for another, you might just find that you get better results that way, since you'll be fresh(er) for the later work outs.

[John Peterson]

Hey john13,


Welcome to our forum. It's great to have you with us.

Let me answer your question directly. In effect, what you have already discovered, is the answer to your question. For years I have been telling my friends and students that breaking up their training sessions into two or more a day sessions is vastly superior for strength, fitness and physique development than one ultra intense session. Regardless of what other so called experts advise. This is what Charles Atlas and Alois P Swoboda both taught (in fact, I'm sure that it was Swoboda that got Atlas hooked on two a day workouts) The reason it is vastly superior is because you are always totally fresh when training and are therefore able to apply greater concentration and focus to exactly what you are trying to accomplish. And john 13, you have already proven this to yourself. Once again, it's great to have you with us.

---John Peterson

[john13]

Many thanks for your advice John. I will train as you suggest in future.

[mts]

I just recently migrated to performing two workouts a day (each briefer than my old once a day workout). I'm finding that I am better able to apply myself (particularly in the evening session).

Regarding the performance of isos in a concentrated time frame (i.e. one session), I've never gotten headaches, but I have found that if I perform more than 15 or 20 contractractions at a time (e.g. performing the CIC workout from IPR all at once), I feel unbelievably tired and drained. Call it too much stress on the CNS or whatever, but I also prefer spliting those around throughout the day.