Is 7 days a week too much?

As long as you body feels fine, you can work out every day.
For weight lifting, you should not work out the same muscle group every day so you body has time to build more muscle mass.

All I would say is that realize your body does need "recovery time." That doesn't mean you have to skip days, it just means that maybe on certain days you do something other than what you usually do or at a slower, more relaxed pace.

I would go to the gym every day for 2 hours a day if I could. I like it there. But some days my husband isn't home to watch the kids. But I would say keep going as long as you feel good!

I just posted this on my wall. This is from Power of 10. I'm not liking the book because the nutrition part is based on flawed conventional wisdom that I don't believe in but it will answer your question.

:During exercise our bodies get temporarily weaker, not stronger. It’s during rest that we recover and make all our gains. This is a huge, unspoken problem with even the most popular weight-training and exercise programs. Whether you’re at the gym lifting or on the treadmill treading 6 days per week, you can’t possibly have time for the rest your body needs. It’s as if you were trying to grow a delicate crystal in water, but every day you come by and shake the glass. The crystal never has a chance. In the same way, too much exercise can be just as bad for you as too little. You reinjure yourself over and over, and never let your system reset itself and recover. You get muscle tears and strains, joint problems, chronic fatigue, and weakening of the immune system, so you get sick more often. Instead of building your body, you may be tearing it down. It amazes me how many dedicated exercisers hit the wall in their fitness programs and then stay there, month after months, without knowing why. They train harder and harder, when all they need is a little more rest.”


You need to rest and recover for exercise to do its thing.

No don't fall into the stereotype you can workout as many days you want, depending on your intensity if your pushing hard it could take up to 30 or more days of training without a brake before you start to over train. Listen to your body it will tell you when to rest.

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Yup.

If you want to maintain 7-days use training splits and probably slightly reduce your cardio. Here's an example
- Sun: Chest and 20-min of cardio
- Mon: Legs
- Tue: 20-30 min of cardio only
- Wed: Shoulders and 20-min cardio
- Thur: Deadlifting
- Fri: Back and cardio (more circuit oriented than hamster-wheel oriented cardio, LOL)
- Sat: Cardio only 20-30min

I just posted this on my wall. This is from Power of 10. I'm not liking the book because the nutrition part is based on flawed conventional wisdom that I don't believe in but it will answer your question.

:During exercise our bodies get temporarily weaker, not stronger. It’s during rest that we recover and make all our gains. This is a huge, unspoken problem with even the most popular weight-training and exercise programs. Whether you’re at the gym lifting or on the treadmill treading 6 days per week, you can’t possibly have time for the rest your body needs. It’s as if you were trying to grow a delicate crystal in water, but every day you come by and shake the glass. The crystal never has a chance. In the same way, too much exercise can be just as bad for you as too little. You reinjure yourself over and over, and never let your system reset itself and recover. You get muscle tears and strains, joint problems, chronic fatigue, and weakening of the immune system, so you get sick more often. Instead of building your body, you may be tearing it down. It amazes me how many dedicated exercisers hit the wall in their fitness programs and then stay there, month after months, without knowing why. They train harder and harder, when all they need is a little more rest.”


You need to rest and recover for exercise to do its thing.

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Also be sure you are getting adequate nutrition. a healthy amount to lose is an average of no more than 2 pounds per week. In 9 weeks you've lost 2.88 per week. Slowing down a tad might not be a bad idea. The person who told you this has your best interests in mind. When you lose weight too fast, you become a skinny fat person.

My trainer says your body needs at least one day to recoup. He told me 7 was too many, that I should aim for 5 or 6 at the most.

I missed 2 days in February - one for sickness and one for a family function. If i had a dollar for every time I heard "you're pushing too hard" I'd have at least 20 bucks -

You dont need to listen to what people tell you - I'm with most others here in regard to the "listen to your body" part -

I train really really hard - when I overtrain, my body responds with pain and fatigue DURING my workout....

when that happens, its time for a rest day - although I have ignored these signs more than once, and I'm still standing, still losing weight, still excited about going to the gym every day......

Should you give your body a chance to rest? probably...Will yo competely fall apart because you're having fun and working hard by going to the gym every day? probably not.

Bottom Line is you just need to pay attention to your body - it will tell you when something is wrong

lol... I read the title line and thought "which day shouldn't we have? I mean, the leap day this year threw me off. Perhaps we could just add a month and have six day weeks?"

I'm glad I persevered. And, go you!

I know that I don't make it to the gym 7 days a week (and am doing well when I go five days of seven), but if you're happy, your body feels good, your doctor isn't horrified, and you're taking care of your nutritional and emotional needs, why would it be too much?