Training Every Day

[baronbvp]

It was more true of me when I was younger. In my senior year of high school, I wrestled at 127. Now I weigh 175 at 5'11" - not so slight, certainly not delicate, but built slender. It is still difficult to add muscle mass even when pounding the protein and heavy (for me) weights.

[DoNkEySlAyEr]

Just to throw in my two cents: make sure your diet is good so you can get the proper recovery, as well as getting enough sleep at night.

[SaiFightsMS]

It seems that there are conflicting messages out there about how to train. On the one hand you hear that you should have a day of rest in between hard workouts, but I don't know if this refers specifically to weight training or not. The thing is, I am an older beginning (intermediate) student, and every class seems like a hard workout. Especially after classes where we have done a lot of moving basics in low stances, my quads and other leg muscles are aching the next day. I can't see skipping a day of training, though, and usually attend classes 5x/week. My question is, is it a bad thing to train even though your muscles are really sore, or would it be better to skip a day? I do try to spend extra time stretching and warming up before the next class, when I'm really sore -- FWIW.

You said you were an older begining/intermediate student but not what "older" range you are in. As we get older it takes a longer recovery time between workouts to recover. Taking a rest day midweek might be an excellant idea for you; or even cutting back to three days a week. Cutting back may actually improve the quality of your workouts.

[DoNkEySlAyEr]

cutting back usually DOES improve the quality of your workouts.