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There are so many permutations to this answer that the question of how often you should train is almost unanswerable. Everybody's different. Basically, how much you train really depends on your recovery time because, after all, training muscle in the gym simply means tearing it down. The important part of the process is when you go to sleep and what you eat to build your lean dense muscle. If you don't allow enough time for the recovery process and the building of muscle, you’re basically wasting your time in over training. However, a very good routine would be three days of cardiovascular training combined with three days of strength training.
Your routine might look something like this: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday do your aerobics for 45 minutes, which leaves your Monday, Wednesday and Friday to do your weight training. Your weight training would probably consist of breaking your body into various parts. Training your whole body each time you went out would be over training, not to mention that it would take you hours to do it. A good split routine, as it's called, would involve perhaps a muscle group such as the chest and triceps on Monday, the back and biceps on Wednesday, and the legs and shoulders on Friday. I have always enjoyed training just my arms alone, that is the biceps, triceps, and shoulders, then I give my legs their own day and my back and chest another day.
Again, for a typical week, let's try to break it down like this: The chest and shoulders are worked on Monday. These are good antagonistic muscle groups, one being the pull and the other the push. If you do that, you'll get a good pump and bring your posture right up. You'll stand straight and walk out of the gym feeling nice and tall. The next workout would be the arms on Wednesday. This is an equal neck to fingertip workout because it involves the traps, biceps, shoulders and forearms. Friday would be the legs. Now, another routine that might be followed would be taking the shoulders from the arms and giving them their own day. You'll have a four-day routine that would be the biceps and triceps on day one, the shoulders and traps on day two, the chest and back on day three, and the legs on day four. Again, do not over train. When you over train, you do not allow your muscles to recover and grow. That's the whole purpose of lifting.
