When someone gets started with a new fitness routine there are a lot of questions that come up.Everything from 'What should I eat before training and after?', 'Should I do weights before cardio or vice versa?', 'Should I do more or less reps/sets?', 'How long should my workouts be?' and 'How often should I train?'Do any of these sound familiar?I'll bet that not only did they sound familiar when you were starting out with your fitness journey, some of these may still be questions going through your head.Let's take a look at one question for now: 'How often should I train?'.I guess before we get to answering that question, we need to know: why is somebody asking? If we know a little more about the person asking, and the context in which they are asking, it will help us to answer the original question.For example, consider if we had two different people asking the question of how often they should train.Number 1: The first person is a med-school student with a young family. This person is in class, the library or the lab every waking moment. The couple of free hours per day they can find are spent bathing, cooking meals and tending to their children.When this person asks how often they should train it is from a position of 'I know I need to do this but I don't have 30 free minutes per day'.I can hear the frustration and anxiety in their voice when they tell me their reality. For this person I might recommend 5-10 minutes of diaphragmatic breathing and some light stretching to begin or end the day. Anymore on their plate and it just won't get done. And it will leave them more frustrated and sad.Number 2: The second person who has come to me asking this...