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 somewhat heavy? Move fixtures? Lift your girlfriend up and pin her against the wall for a sizzling 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 A Smaller Amount Of 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 into super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend not greater than 20-30 minutes in the gym each time - DoubleYourGains' 3-5 Program takes 30mins/3x week. That means you could be consuming 2 hours in the gym vs. 12. It doesn't take long to improve strength.
3. Building Strength Is Encouraging:
Most people don't have any goals when they go to the gym, they think "I want to look better" but that's vague and undefined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift every time you go into 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 Simpler To Increase Volume:
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 matchless "dense" look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to employ heavier weights when it came to doing out-of-date bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.
5. Better For Health:
There's been a lot of recent research that shows strength training helps to prevent age related diseases and degenerative 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.
Plus, your bones will get stronger too to support your framework of muscle mass.
6. Builds Up 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 source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.
What's more, several sports - mainly martial arts - require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be immensely strong for their size for they have to stay within a specific 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 Great For Women
The majority of women don't want to seem like the hulk. They don't want to acquire 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get "toned". As I mentioned in the past, strength training is the ultimate 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. - 15683
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 somewhat heavy? Move fixtures? Lift your girlfriend up and pin her against the wall for a sizzling 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 A Smaller Amount Of 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 into super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend not greater than 20-30 minutes in the gym each time - DoubleYourGains' 3-5 Program takes 30mins/3x week. That means you could be consuming 2 hours in the gym vs. 12. It doesn't take long to improve strength.
3. Building Strength Is Encouraging:
Most people don't have any goals when they go to the gym, they think "I want to look better" but that's vague and undefined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift every time you go into 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 Simpler To Increase Volume:
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 matchless "dense" look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to employ heavier weights when it came to doing out-of-date bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.
5. Better For Health:
There's been a lot of recent research that shows strength training helps to prevent age related diseases and degenerative 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.
Plus, your bones will get stronger too to support your framework of muscle mass.
6. Builds Up 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 source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.
What's more, several sports - mainly martial arts - require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be immensely strong for their size for they have to stay within a specific 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 Great For Women
The majority of women don't want to seem like the hulk. They don't want to acquire 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get "toned". As I mentioned in the past, strength training is the ultimate 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. - 15683
