How many times a week can I workout the same muscle?

It depends on your goals so…

• See how many times a week you can work out to build bigger muscle
• See how many times a week you can work out to maintain muscle size
• See how many times a week you can work out to firm & tone muscles

If you're trying to build bigger muscles…

Then you need to let your muscles rest long enough between workouts to allow them to get stronger so you can lift heavier weights, do more reps and/or sets in your next workout because…

Your muscles won't get bigger if they're not getting stronger each time you workout so that usually means you can only work out the same muscle about 1-to-2 times a week to make it bigger & stronger or even less but…

The best way to see how often you can workout for bigger muscles is…

If you have a hard time increasing the amount of weight, sets and/or reps you use for 2-to-3 workouts in a row then…

That's a real good sign you need to rest more in between your workouts to give your muscles time to get bigger and stronger so you can lift heavier weight, do more sets and/or reps to continually build bigger muscles so for example…

• Let's say you start doing squats to get a bigger butt and let's say on Monday you do 5 sets of 5 reps using 100 pounds and then…
• On Thursday you do 5 sets using 105 pounds for 6 reps and this is good because you increased the weight and reps but…
• Let say on next Monday you do another squat workout but you can't do more than 105 pounds or no more than 6 reps then…
• That means you need to rest more so by the time you do squats again… You can squat more than 105 pounds or do more than 6 reps to make your legs get bigger so…

Whenever you're not getting stronger each time you workout by not lifting heavier weights, doing more reps and/or sets then its best that you rest more because…

A stronger muscle is a bigger muscle and If you're not getting stronger each time you workout then you're wasting your time trying to build bigger muscles because…

Doing the same workout over and over with the same amount of weight, reps, and sets will give you the same results over and over and that's why…

If you just want to maintain your muscle size & strength…

You can do the same workout over & over using the same weight, reps, and sets once a week or even once a month to maintain the muscle size you have and you won't have to worry about losing much muscle mass unless you stop working out for a long time and…

If you want to firm up your muscles without building big muscles…

• You can work out that same muscle 1-to-3 times a week but…
• Use moderate weights avoiding real heavy weights and…
• Do less than 5 sets for that muscle and…
• Do 8-to-12 reps for each exercise and…
• You only need to increase the weight if doing 8-to-12 reps is very easy and…

Make sure you also see…

• How to get rid of soreness
• How long do I need to rest between sets to build muscle?
• How many exercises should I do to build muscle?
• How much weight should I use to gain muscle?
• How many reps you need to do to build muscle fast?
• What are sets & reps?
• How many sets do I need to do to build muscle fast?



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