How often should I train with weights?

How often should I train with weights?

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Starting out, one should train with weights twice a week. As they progress, they can add it up three days. Then they can progress and add it up to four. There's a division between three and four. This is because if you do three days, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, you can have enough recovery to the points where you can exercise with weights -your whole body - and then have enough recovery and repeat it again. When you go four days a week of weight training, there's not enough recovery time in between each weight lifting session. So, because of that, you need to start breaking up your body; whether it be all push exercises one day and all pulls the next, or all upper and all lower, or chest, back and shoulders, and then the next day arms and legs, and so forth. When you start to go with five and six days of weight training, you have to divide it further.