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The Best Training Frequency for Fat Loss

by Craig Ballantyne
Date Released : 25 Oct 2011

One of the greatest mysteries in personal training for weight and fat loss is optimal training frequency for fat loss.

If your clients have all the free time in the world, are they better off training six days per week or three days per week?

Or, since six days per .......

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Chadwick, Teri | 29 Oct 2011, 01:49 AM
Does it necessarily follow that a six-day program will mean greater likelihood of illness and injury? Perhaps I read this wrong, but it seemed that the likelihood of overuse injury was found in the study of women doing repeated consecutive days of RESISTANCE training each week and not a combination of resistance and interval training (I am assuming an alternating schedule and no consecutive days of either). Six days a week is alot of training for anyone, especially when high intensity interval training is included, but when training w/ moderate intervals on 3 non-consecutive days and resistance training on 3 non-consecutive days, I wonder if the outcome would be the same as for 5 consecutive days of resistance training. Not to mention that it is a given that one should rest muscle groups trained under resistance for at least a day between workouts. The study mentioned had the participants hitting the same resistance exercises for the same muscle groups on multiple consecutive days.