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 #1: Focus On A Few Full Body Exercises
Simply concentrate on a small amount of full body exercises. You have to train it entirely as a single unit in order for your whole body to be strong. And also, you gain optimum hormone stimulation by training your entire body this way. Best workouts are Squats, Deadlifts, Overhead Press, and the Bench Press.
Rule No. 2: Concentrate on High Resistance
Your lifts should be performed with extreme resistance in order to produce strength. This is made by lifting weights (or performing body weight exercises with critical weight distribution and weak force) and by extremely contracting (tensing) your muscles as you lift.
The goal is to obtain additional 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.
Rule No. 3: Give Attention To 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.
Therefore, lift heavy things as possible. While keeping fresh as possible.
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