Yo Warriors,

Theres always a debate about whether training every day or not is a good thing or a bad thing. 

And I know I’ll sound like a broken record, the answer is that it depends. 

Can someone train everyday?

Absolutely!

I do!
And I advocate for some training everyday!
People often say that I train too much but I don’t really think I do. 

I think the real question here is something different:

Can someone train the same thing and at the same intensity every day?

Yes. 

BUT

Is it effective?

In my opinion, no.

The whole training game is based on a few variables and the management of them.
The principle one being stimulation and recovery.
The faster you can recover from fatigue the more often you can be intense with training. 

I take about 4 days to recover BUT I can still train every day.

Why?

Because I change my focus of my training. 

For example, I could train press ups every day.

Would I gain value out of it?

Possibly.

If I didn’t have time to go to total failure on them for a particular day then doing them for multiple days in a row would start to accrue the stimulation needed to trigger the growth of them, then I can recover.
This would largely be a waste of time in my eyes. 

BUT

If I did them on a day and took them to absolute failure – which is what I do do – then doing them the next day (or any time before they’re recovered) isn’t going to bring me any extra benefit. 
(And I know, I hear “doo-doo” too, haha)

This the question comes down to the amount of time it takes to recover. 

If you restimulate the muscles before they’ve recovered, then you’re not gonna progress.

You’ve gotta make sure that the stimulation-fatigue-recovery balance is in check.

Luckily, it’s usually pretty intuitive. 

Train and get sore.
Then don’t train it again until its not sore. 

THAT is the long and short of the whole argument. 

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MATTS EVERYDAY TRAINING

Now, I do something thats kind of in line with the above.

Because I can find 30 mins everyday to train so, instead of doing the same thing every day and being perpetually sore, I rotate between a few different sessions – as I’m sure I’ve bored you from explaining before.

But here we, briefly, go again.

I train 4 main sessions:

• Body Prep – A full body strength session where my joints get a chance to develop with some careful application of exercises
• Locomotion – A session focusing on practicing how I run (usually for distance or time depending on what I fancy doing – and I’m not afraid to walk when my running form breaks down)
• Skills – A session to practice a wide range of skills to develop my motor-nueron pathways
• Battle Drills – A chance to practice combative (weapons and unarmed) alongside some foot work drills – again, to develop my motor-nueron pathways related to these skills

The chief reason that I can do these on rotation is because, in that order, there is very little fatigue overlap – especially when it comes to intention. 

Eg, For my chest prep, I will do press ups to failure, but for skills I can do crawling, and whilst it seems like there would e overlap, my intention is different.
I want to develop my chest with the press ups and take it to failure.
For the crawling, I want to practice my crawling motion – and if my chest starts to fatigue then I’ll stop crawling IF its affecting the movement.
Similar action on the surface, very different on the underneath.

The other thing to mention is that if I’ve not got 30mins a day, then I’ll do do less time, so it doesn’t mean I’ll miss out on practice, it just might take a little longer to develop.
But sustainability is better than biting off more than I can chew. 

(And thats the beauty of organising most of my training into a circuit fashion – I can just do a couple of rounds).

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IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO EVERYDAY?

If we’re talking about a single movement then, like I say, yes but to some diminishing return on investment.

BUT 

If its something different and still allows recovery, then YES!

For me, practicing skills can be done everyday – my skills and battle drills sessions, but also other sports like martial arts etc.
Because these are all avoiding adding fatigue and focused on developing movements. 

I just make sure that the any focus for sports is on the skills rather than being competitive all the time. 

AND

That I’m ready to bow out or reduce what I’m doing if the intensity starts to raise up too much. 

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CONCLUSION

I love to train every day.

I like the variety I have because it never feels stale. 

I like the fact that my focus isn’t on beasting myself every session, it is about development mostly of skills. 

If I can only find a few minutes on a particular day, then I’ll practice but I’ll just do less. 

If I find I have more time on my hands, then I might do longer sessions.

Or on a day off, I might do a couple of sessions within the day.
Or I might do a couple of little sessions during a day if I’ve got to split a session up.
Or I might just take a day off – this is rare but it’ll happen.

The only thing I don’t double up or extend is my Body Prep sessions.
Theres no benefit to this as its about taking muscle to failure.
Once they’re that fatigued, I want them to recover by the time the next BP session comes round. 
I will, however, sometimes spread this out during the day seeing as its one exercise done at a time, if I have to.

Again, rare but it happens. 

So yeah, training effectively everyday is entirely doable

I think I do it effectively!

But just hammering out a randomised training routine that is missing that structure and focus points is gonna be bad news.

Talk soon

Matt