How Many Times A Week Should I Work Out?

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Author: Matthew Oliver
There is a conflict between one group of people saying you need to rest and another group saying training every day is the goal and rest days are a myth. So exactly, how many times should you work out in a week?
Rest days are important. Especially growth adaptations do not come by at the gym but actually during sleep and recovery. If you’re only doing cardio for 1hr 30 min each day you may not need much rest then. However if you are doing intense training lifting the heaviest weight as much as you can each work out. Then you may actually need higher levels of rest.

There are a few indicators. Frequency, intensity and volume. These 3 indicators are a consequence of how much rest you need per week. Asking yourself what are you doing in the gym in the first place is a great reflection for these indicators. Unfortunately the more volume of exercise you are doing will mean more fatigue. Continuing to not rest and this may cause overtraining!


However one way of still going to the gym and minimising overtraining is of course training different muscle groups. For example Monday may be training back while Tuesday could be Legs. This will incorporate different muscle groups into your training and ultimately minimising injury through overtraining! Ultimately it will depend on your lifestyle so I encourage you test things out and see how your body reacts. Therefore you can go with the frequency that will give you the best results.

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