Why Building Strength Should Be Your Primary Goal
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 now to discover some good reasons why I think building strength should be your number one goal (even if you just want to build a lot of muscle and burn a lot 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.
In fact, sometimes having excess muscle is not useful – it weighs more so if you have to run or walk long distances takes more calories to maintain, meaning 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 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 Motivating:
Most people don’t have any goals when they go to the gym, they think “I want to look better” but that’s vague and undefined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift every time you go into 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 Natural To Develop Bulk:
Most weightlifters these days don’t recognize that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early on 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 And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 Health:
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 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 major confidence booster.
7. Strength Training Is Better For Sports
Strength is the core for all other physical qualities. Building up your strength boosts your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and all that.
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 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 Excellent For Females
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 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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