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How much training do I need?
 This is an issue which is depending on several factors and is therefor not so easy to nswer. It depends on what level of sports you want to do. Do you want to become a top athlete or do recreational sports? Do you want to reach individual goals like strength, muscle growth, stamina increase, body toning, rehabilitation, prevention and others?
How much time do you want to invest in your training? At present people focus mainly on health and recreational sport activities. The most named goals are stamina, body toning and health. When you have these goals, a combination of strength and stamina training makes sense. Try doing two to three training sessions per week, that should be sufficient.
Two training sessions per week are needed to adjust the body to training. A training session should always be built the following way: After a warm up do the power (or strength) training and then the stamina training.
'Never exercise the same muscle two consecutive days.'
Divide your sessions equally among the days of the week, so you get at least a day's break. Through an optimal change of strain and relaxation the body adjusts to the training. If your goal is muscle growth the same rule applies. After one day of total exertion of the muscles in question follows a 48 hour recovery. Never exercise the same muscle two consecutive days. The muscles don't adjust to the training when they are under strain, but rather when they are recovering.
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