Why Building Strength Should Be Your Primary Goal
If you are wondering why I deal with strength training seriously and think you should too therefore 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 Efficient:
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:
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 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 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 And were able to employ heavier weights when it came to doing out-of-date bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 Fitness:
There’s been loads of modern research that shows strength training helps to stop age related diseases and worsening diseases.
To sum up: Losing muscle mass is an expected upshot of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to “hold on” to muscle mass as it needs it to continue lifting weighty stuff.
Plus, your bones will get stronger too 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 Better For Sports
Strength is the source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.
What’s more, several sports - mainly martial arts - require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be immensely strong for their size for they have to stay within a specific 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 Great For Women
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.