If you are wondering why I focus on strength training so much and think you should too then this article will tell you why.
Read this article right away to find a number of good reasons why I think building strength should be your most important goal (although you just want to build mega-muscles and nuke lots of fat)...
1. Strength Training Is More Functional:
Ever needed to lift a bit heavy? Move furnishings? Pick your girlfriend up and pin her against the wall for a scorching make out session? All those things required strength, not necessarily muscle size.
As a matter of fact, every so often having supplementary muscle is not advantageous - it weighs more therefore if you have to run or walk long distances takes added calories to keep up, in a few words you have to eat more...
2. Building Strength Takes Less Time:
Nearly all skilled bodybuilders work hard up to 6 days in the gym and some even do a two times a day workouts. If you're like me (or most people) in that case lifting weights isn't your twenty-four-hour job.
You can turn out to be super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend not exceeding 20-30 minutes in the gym each time - DoubleYourGains' 3-5 Program takes 30mins/3x week. That means you could be spending 2 hours in the gym vs. 12. It doesn't take long to build up strength.
3. Building Strength Is Inspiring:
Nearly all people don't have any goals when they go to the gym, they think "I want to look better" but that's uncertain and undetermined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift each time you set foot in the gym though is VERY motivating.
Plus, watching the weights build and seeing how far you've progressed over the course of time is very motivating and makes you want to keep going back to the gym.
4. Strength Makes It Natural To Develop Bulk:
Most weightlifters these days don't recognize that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early on their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.
They had a exceptional "dense" look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.
5. Better For Fitness:
There's been loads of modern research that shows strength training helps to stop age related diseases and worsening diseases.
To sum up: Losing muscle mass is an expected upshot of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to "hold on" to muscle mass as it needs it to continue lifting weighty stuff.
And also, your bones will become stronger as well to support your framework of muscle mass.
6. Improves Self-Confidence
There's nothing better than KNOWING you can pick a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up above your head. Or knowing that you have the strength to pull yourself up and over a wall up and over the edge of a cliff and things like that.
Knowing you are as strong as you look is a main confidence booster.
7. Strength Training Is Excellent For Athletics
Strength is the basis for all other physical qualities. Increasing your strength increases your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, etc
And also, numerous sports - particularly martial arts - require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be extraordinarily strong for their size since they have to stay within a particular weight class.
There's nothing worse than putting on 20 MORE pounds of muscle you have to carry down the field, or move around the ring to avoid getting knocked out - and that 20 pounds of muscle is doing you no good.
8. Strength Training Is Excellent For Females
Most women don't want to look like the hulk. They don't want to put on 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get "toned". As I mentioned before, strength training is the best way to get the toned look.
So if you're a girl you can get strong very quickly and improve your health and quality of life without taking away from your femininity in the least. - 15438
Read this article right away to find a number of good reasons why I think building strength should be your most important goal (although you just want to build mega-muscles and nuke lots of fat)...
1. Strength Training Is More Functional:
Ever needed to lift a bit heavy? Move furnishings? Pick your girlfriend up and pin her against the wall for a scorching make out session? All those things required strength, not necessarily muscle size.
As a matter of fact, every so often having supplementary muscle is not advantageous - it weighs more therefore if you have to run or walk long distances takes added calories to keep up, in a few words you have to eat more...
2. Building Strength Takes Less Time:
Nearly all skilled bodybuilders work hard up to 6 days in the gym and some even do a two times a day workouts. If you're like me (or most people) in that case lifting weights isn't your twenty-four-hour job.
You can turn out to be super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend not exceeding 20-30 minutes in the gym each time - DoubleYourGains' 3-5 Program takes 30mins/3x week. That means you could be spending 2 hours in the gym vs. 12. It doesn't take long to build up strength.
3. Building Strength Is Inspiring:
Nearly all people don't have any goals when they go to the gym, they think "I want to look better" but that's uncertain and undetermined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift each time you set foot in the gym though is VERY motivating.
Plus, watching the weights build and seeing how far you've progressed over the course of time is very motivating and makes you want to keep going back to the gym.
4. Strength Makes It Natural To Develop Bulk:
Most weightlifters these days don't recognize that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early on their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.
They had a exceptional "dense" look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.
5. Better For Fitness:
There's been loads of modern research that shows strength training helps to stop age related diseases and worsening diseases.
To sum up: Losing muscle mass is an expected upshot of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to "hold on" to muscle mass as it needs it to continue lifting weighty stuff.
And also, your bones will become stronger as well to support your framework of muscle mass.
6. Improves Self-Confidence
There's nothing better than KNOWING you can pick a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up above your head. Or knowing that you have the strength to pull yourself up and over a wall up and over the edge of a cliff and things like that.
Knowing you are as strong as you look is a main confidence booster.
7. Strength Training Is Excellent For Athletics
Strength is the basis for all other physical qualities. Increasing your strength increases your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, etc
And also, numerous sports - particularly martial arts - require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be extraordinarily strong for their size since they have to stay within a particular weight class.
There's nothing worse than putting on 20 MORE pounds of muscle you have to carry down the field, or move around the ring to avoid getting knocked out - and that 20 pounds of muscle is doing you no good.
8. Strength Training Is Excellent For Females
Most women don't want to look like the hulk. They don't want to put on 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get "toned". As I mentioned before, strength training is the best way to get the toned look.
So if you're a girl you can get strong very quickly and improve your health and quality of life without taking away from your femininity in the least. - 15438
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