Why Building Strength Should Be Your Main Goal

by Caleb Lee

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 now to learn several good reasons why I think building strength should be your main goal (even though you just want to build bigger, more robust muscles and melt away loads 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.

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 Less 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 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 Encouraging:

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.

What’s more, observing the weights build and seeing how far you’ve developed over the course of time is very motivating and makes you want to keep coming back to the gym.

4. Strength Makes It Simpler To Increase Volume:

Most bodybuilders nowadays don’t realize that guys like Arnold and weightlifters from his day all did powerlifting routines at the beginning of 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 And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 Fitness:

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.

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 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 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 Great 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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