Minimum Effective Dose How Often Do You Need To Exercise To See Results?

How often do you need to exercise to see results?

Your time, money, and energy is valuable.

You want to improve your health.

How much exercise do you need to do to see progress?

This all depends on where you are starting from.

Like all things in life, exercise does have some risks.

A risk factor for exercise is doing too much too soon.

For a client who has never participated in structured exercise, I would NEVER have them exercise 5 days a week to begin.

For someone already exercising 5 days a week, but not seeing results, sure an additional training day could be added. But that wouldn’t be the first option.

When determining how frequently to exercise, know that you have science on your side.

You can get results training 1 day a week, 2 days a week, 3 days a week, etc

But it’s also important to know that training volume and frequency aren’t the only factors in getting results.

To increase the likelihood of success with exercise, you need to consider these two critical factors:

• Can you do this consistently over a long period?

• Can you recover enough? Can you sleep and eat appropriately to support this lifestyle change?

I’d rather have someone exercise once a week over a long period then try to do every day for a month and then stop.

I’d rather have a sleep-deprived client exercise for 20 minutes instead of an hour while committing to getting an extra 30-60 minutes of sleep each night.