Is it okay to do a full body workout 5 days a week?

If you are a competitive weightlifter, you may have to lift weights every day and sometimes twice a day, five or six days a week. read more

Knowing this, it would seem that the best combination of cardio and full body workouts tends to lean toward the 2/3 approach — two days of full body workout and three days of cardio. The jury is still out on the long-term effectiveness and safety of a full body workout three or more times a week. read more

Training the whole body four or five times per week certainly isn't for everybody. If you're a beginner, you should be able to make substantial improvements with two to three full body sessions each week. Training more often may cause you to be too sore to perform optimally in every session. read more