Why Building Strength Should Be Your Main Goal
Posted on December 22, 2008
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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.
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 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 become super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend no more than 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 develop 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.
Besides, seeing the weights build and observing how far you’ve improved over the course of time is extremely encouraging and makes you want to keep returning to the gym.
4. Strength Makes It Easier To Build Size:
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 And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 Well-being:
There’s been many contemporary research that shows strength training helps to avoid age related diseases and deteriorating diseases.
In short: Losing muscle mass is an unavoidable effect of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to “hold on” to muscle mass for it needs it to continue lifting bulky 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 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 major confidence booster.
7. Strength Training Is Great For Sports Activities
Strength is the source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.
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 Better For Women
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 lass you can become strong very fast and uplift your health and quality of life without taking away from your feminineness in the least.
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