Weight Training

How many days a week is it good to do weight lifting?  I have heard your body needs breaks, but I am wondering  how long of a break it needs between workouts.

A good rule is every other day if you are doing a full body lifting session. If you break it up by upper one day and lower the next you should be ok. I usually give myself 1-2 days off a week depending on how I feel.

Depends on the intensity of the workouts and what you're trying to achieve. For a beginner or someone that just wants to use weight training to be healthy I'd say 3 full body workouts a week, like Mon, Wed, Fri.  But some beginners can get away with working out more because they can't generate the intensity a more advanced trainer can. So they actually are able to recover from their workouts faster. If you workout more than 3 days a week I'd definately split up your body parts and just work 1 or 2 per day. Such as Mon - chest Delts , Tues - Back, Wed - off, Thurs - legs, Fri - Bicep, Tricep, off Sat and Sun. There are a thousand different ways to do it. Just whatever works for you and your schedule.