If you are wondering why I concentrate on strength training to a great extent and think you should too in that case this article will tell you why.
Read this article right now to learn several good reasons why I think building strength should be your main goal (even though you just want to build bigger, more robust muscles and melt away loads of fat)...
1. Strength Training Is More Useful:
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.
Actually, at times having extra muscle is not beneficial - it weighs more as a result if you have to run or walk long distances takes additional calories to sustain, in short you have to eat further...
2. Building Strength Takes a Lesser 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 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 Motivating:
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 Easier To Build Size:
Most bodybuilders today don't understand that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early in their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.
They had a unique "dense" look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to use heavier weights when it came to doing traditional bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.
5. Better For Fitness:
There's been a lot of recent research that shows strength training helps to prevent age related diseases and degenerative diseases.
In a nutshell: Losing muscle mass is an inevitable result of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to "hold on" to muscle mass because it needs it to continue lifting heavy 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 lift a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up on top of 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 primary 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
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 gaining 20 MORE pounds of muscle you have to carry down the field, or move around the ring to prevent getting blown away - and that 20 pounds of muscle is not doing you any 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. - 16752
Read this article right now to learn several good reasons why I think building strength should be your main goal (even though you just want to build bigger, more robust muscles and melt away loads of fat)...
1. Strength Training Is More Useful:
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.
Actually, at times having extra muscle is not beneficial - it weighs more as a result if you have to run or walk long distances takes additional calories to sustain, in short you have to eat further...
2. Building Strength Takes a Lesser 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 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 Motivating:
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 Easier To Build Size:
Most bodybuilders today don't understand that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early in their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.
They had a unique "dense" look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to use heavier weights when it came to doing traditional bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.
5. Better For Fitness:
There's been a lot of recent research that shows strength training helps to prevent age related diseases and degenerative diseases.
In a nutshell: Losing muscle mass is an inevitable result of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to "hold on" to muscle mass because it needs it to continue lifting heavy 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 lift a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up on top of 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 primary 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
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 gaining 20 MORE pounds of muscle you have to carry down the field, or move around the ring to prevent getting blown away - and that 20 pounds of muscle is not doing you any 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. - 16752
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