No, Arnold did not overtrain. Arnold had a style called volume training. This included high numbers of repetitions and sets for just about every exercise he performed. His idea was the more time under tension the muscles spent; the more they would be signaled to grow.

Does Arnold Schwarzenegger work out everyday?

The former governor and retired body builder works out six days a week and does body part splits, which means he works on a different part of the body for each session. Schwarzenegger said he trains chest and back one day, biceps, triceps, and shoulders another day, and legs the third day, and then repeats.

How many hours a day did Arnold workout?

Arnold worked out five hours a day, six days a week. Most of us train 45 mins, and we're exhausted. All at the same time he was working on his mail order business, on his acting classes, going to college, training for three hours a day and doing construction.