I often get friends (mostly female) that ask me, how come when they workout everyday doing 2 gym classes a day, although they aren't overweight (this I agree with), they don't seem to be able to tone (shape) their bodies, in particular their arms and shoulders. My answer is, stop working out every now and then and take rest. In order to shape up, your muscles must rebuild after you keep breaking them down. This is a classic case of overtraining for those super-keen individuals. By overtraining you aren't doing yourself many favours.
If you are a beginner I suggest you workout only 3 times a week with 4 days rest in between. If you have been training for a while, I suggest a rest day following 2 consecutive workout days.
If you know me, you might call me a hypocrite as I'm at the gym almost everyday of the week when I'm not playing some other sport -- but I'm not always working out. On my rest days I still go to the gym to do some stretches, work on my ITBs and have a rest in the steam room or sauna :)
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