Friday, November 28th, 2008

3 Strength Training Principles

by Caleb Lee

Power comes from strength training. At the end of the day, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is walking around with a “V8 engine” (their muscle system) though barely firing on “4 cylinders” – not even a single person is truly utilizing their muscles to the extreme.

Your body actually keeps you from using all the strength of your muscles, as a safey mechanism. Your strength generally does not exceed 30% of your tendon structural strength. For instance, when people are electricuted their muscles often contract so hard that they break their bone structures.

For this reason, you can become A LOT stronger by learning how to “fire” more of your muscles and get them to tighten harder with more tension… if you just stick to these three rules for all-out strength training:

Rule No. 1: Give Attention To A Small Amount Of Full Body Exercises

If you want your entire body to be on top form, just give attention to a limited full body exercises. Therefore, you should do it all as one unit. As well as you will find ideal hormone stimulation by training your whole body by way of this. Squats, Deadlifts, Overhead Press, and the Bench Press are perfect.

Second Rule: Give Attention To High Resistance

To create strength your lifts have to be made with great resistance. This is achieved by lifting heavy weights (or performing bodyweight exercises with unfavorable weight distribution and poor control) and by greatly contracting (tensing) your muscles as you lift.

The idea is to recruit more muscle fibers by:

1. Tightening up every muscle as firmly as possible during the course of the workout and…

2. At the same time sustaining high tension lifting the weight as rapid as possible.

Third Rule: Concentrate on Multiple Sets of Low Reps

Since strength is a skill you can’t perform “sloppily”. Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Therefore, you have to learn being strong. Every rep should be made as entirely as possile (in line with the above guidelines). Maintain the reps at a low level so that you can remain mentally focused. In the same way, this will keep you from getting weary and sloppy.

In other words, you should learn to lift weighty stuff as possible. While remaining invigorated as possible.

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