Title: Lifting weights, Strength Training. How Many Times Should You Train Each Week.
Headings: STRENGTH TRAINING FREQUENCY
STRENGTH TRAINING FREQUENCY
For beginning exercisers, there is research to support recommending strength training three times, two times, or even once per week.
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Summary
The studies’ research findings are summarized as follows:
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Content: College Recruiting Services. The real deal or a scam? We review the NCSA. The results of this study indicate that training only one or two days per week is effective for increasing muscle strength. However, because the one-day-per-week exercisers endured such a demanding workout (12 sets of bench presses), this training protocol was not very practical. Consequently, this exercise frequency was ruled out as a sensible strength-training procedure, and people were not advised to work out only once per week. Study two
In 1996, another study analyzed five years of data from the South Shore YMCA’s, Quincy, Mass., fitness classes (1,132 subjects, average age 51 years). During that time, 716 subjects met on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to complete an eight-week program of strength and endurance exercise, and 416 participants performed the same training program on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The primary objective of this study was to determine the effects of twice-a-week and three-times-a-week strength-training sessions on the participants’ body composition. The findings revealed that the three-day-per-week exercisers gained 2.5 pounds of lean muscle weight, and lost 4.6 pounds of fat weight.