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 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 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 Inspiring:
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 Natural To Develop Bulk:
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 And were able to employ heavier weights when it came to doing out-of-date bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 Well-being:
There’s been loads of modern research that shows strength training helps to stop age related diseases and worsening 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.
Besides, your bones will grow stronger too to support your framework of muscle mass.
6. Improves Self-Confidence
There’s nothing better than KNOWING you can pick a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up over 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 core for all other physical qualities. Building up your strength boosts your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and all that.
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 acquiring 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 not doing you any good.
8. Strength Training Is Excellent For Females
Nearly all women don’t want to be like the hulk. They don’t want to gain 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get “toned”. As I mentioned earlier, strength training is the greatest 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.
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