is it safe?

in one word NO!
 
Depends what your definition of 'workout' is... could be house chores, sports, cardio, resistance training, etc... ALSO it depends on what you do for each....

What doctors 'recommend' is moderate activity, which is walking on the treadmill, cleaning the house/garage, just any activity that gets your heart-rate up... But if you get into more 'intense' activity, resistance training, cardio w/ the heart-rate up there, then you'd want to do every other day...

But once again, it's all conditional pertaining to you and what you plan on doing...
 
40 mins of cardio day wouldn't be bad advice
40 mins of weight training a day would be (particularly for a beginner)

As Dex put it...depends on the definition of 'work out'
 
You 'can' weight train everyday, just as long as you don't work the same group of muscles everyday. You need to give your muscles a good day to rest. You can do upper body one day, lower body the next. And cardio is good everyday as well...

The only problem working out every day is once again doing weight training and working the same groups of muscles without letting them heal. That's the only thing I can think off.
 
Cardio everyday certainly isn't bad for you, nor is playing a sport (if you consider that working out...) Actually cardio every day is really good for you, assuming you're in good enough shape for it and you're not overstressing yourself. XC runners know that more than a day or two off will add time to you!
 
I got weight lifting, they make me work out my whole body every single day, except sunday. If its so bad, why would they make u do that in school?
 
Well, really one could weight train everyday, however, it is usually dependant on a number of factors, such as age, recovery, fatigue, conditioning, etc. The total volume of the work out must be low, generally the intensity is either fairly high (85-90%) or fairly low (30-40%) with rep ranges being 1-5 or 20+ with in those respective brackets. The higher intensity being more for absolute strength gains, while the low bracket being more for prehab/rehab & general conditioning work. Generally the total number of sets per movement shouldn't exeed 2-3, and more than likely the number of movements should be around the same (2-3). Now if you are doing 15-20+ sets per day, I'd say you are or going to be overtraining at a rapid clip and are going to burn out.
Just my long winded way of saying, it depends on alot of stuff!

Hope that helps,

-Andrew
 
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