by: Alvie Hafen How many times should I work out a week? This is one of the most common questions I come across with my clients. Is two times a week enough? Is five times a week too many? There is a right way and a wrong to approaching your workouts and how many times a week you should attend class. For the beginner, the person who hasn’t jumped rope in 30 years, or hasn’t run a mile since high school, two days a week is a good start. You want to introduce the body back into moving again. The muscles will ache and the lungs will burn, even from just two days a week. If you push that first week and go 4 or 5 times, the body will react negatively. Don’t dive in the deep end of the pool. Once the body starts to adjust and grow stronger,...
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