Many people who should know better are still fooled into thinking that more training frequency is better. They try to train doing three whole body workouts per week. This is a mistake and too much if you are training in a high intensity heavy and HARD fashion. When I say HARD, I mean sets to failure with heavy weight, minimum rest, compound exercises, balanced, whole body training. ESPECIALLY if you do multiple sets. Training HEAVY is not always the same as training HARD. Many powerlifters train heavy but never even break a sweat. If you do a sub maximum single and rest 5 minutes and do another sub maximum single, this is not hard training. It may be heavy training, but not HARD. It depends on what type of routine you are doing. If you do a VERY abbreviated routine (usually unbalanced with just 3 or 4 exercises), but lift heavy and take a LOT of rest, you can get away with 3 days a week. If you train like we do at WST with a balanced, higher volume, heavy, sets to failure (or beyond) routine you are PHYSICALLY UNABLE to train more than twice per week. If you truly train HARD as I described above, cut down your whole body workouts to no more than twice every week and you will feel alot stronger and recovered for your training. Many so called training fitness guidelines that recommend 3 times per week whole body routines are just for general fitness and are really just toning routines. They are not meant for serious Hard, strength training. If you train seriously, progressively and hard in a true high intensity fashion then you would be far better off training with less than 3 whole body sessions per week. (The WST guideline is TWICE every 7 to 10 days.) online strength coach online strength coach strength training for athletes