How many times should you exercise weekly?

Question

How long does it take to tone up a persons body by exercising?

Answer 1

If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. Stop making some major mistakes wake up earlier and get active earlier your metabolism is sluggish and needs to be woken up this is half your problem.

Here are the golden rules:
Initially cut down to 1200 calories.
Exercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved.
Don't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise.
Drink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day.
Limit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day.
Never eat dinner after 6pm.
Adopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!
Make low fat dairy choices

Follow this menu plan as a suggestion:
Breakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon
20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR
fruit salad w low GI soy yogurt
Snack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)
Lunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)
Snack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt
Dinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato
Snack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)

Exercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between.

Cardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes.

To maintain you can increase calories to 1500 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again.

Good luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.

Answer 2

4 times

Answer 3

3

Answer 4

Everyone has their own answer to this and it really depends on the type of exercise and what your goals are. Once a day is best for over all good body tone, but you can get away with 3 times a week and keep up with decent fitness.

I suggest you select the type of exercises you are interested in and then read up on the duration and recommended frequency.

Answer 5

7

Answer 6

each body part every other day.

you might want to split it up

day 1, 3, 5 - upper body
day 2, 4, 6 - lower body
day 7 - rest

Answer 7

Every day. Some say it is good to excercise short periods every day, others say longer aerobic periods are better.
I excercise 6 times a week and always make sure I do it at night right before bed.

Answer 8

I work out 3x weekly on my way home from work...I exercise on
9 different weight-resistance machines for a complete body
workout.

Answer 9

You Should start by exercising every 3rd day and when you fitness raises then you move it to every other day.

This enables your body to recover.

Answer 10

at least 45-60 minutes of non-strenuous excercise a day. although it varies from person to person, and with calorie intake.