Why Building Strength Should Be Your Primary Goal
Posted by Caleb Lee Web Hosting Wednesday 24 December 2008 5:24 am
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 A Smaller Amount Of Time:
Majority of expert weightlifters spend up to 6 days in the gym and some even do twice a day workouts. If you’re like me (or most people) therefore lifting weights isn’t your permanent 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:
Nearly everyone don’t have any goals when they go to the gym, they think “I want to look better” but that’s unclear and open-ended. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift whenever you come 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 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 And were able to employ heavier weights when it came to doing out-of-date bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 Fitness:
There’s been a lot of recent research that shows strength training helps to prevent age related diseases and degenerative 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.
And also, your bones will become stronger as well to support your framework of muscle mass.
6. Self Confidence Booster
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 source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.
Plus, a lot of sports - especially martial arts - require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be very strong for their size because they have to stay within a certain 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 Excellent For Females
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 woman you can get strong very quickly and boost up your health and quality of life without taking away from your womanliness in the least.
