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 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.
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:
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 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:
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.
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 Easier To Build Size:
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 And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 loads of modern research that shows strength training helps to stop age related diseases and worsening diseases.
In a nutshell: Losing muscle mass is an inevitable result of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to "hold on" to muscle mass because it needs it to continue lifting heavy 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 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 Great For Sports Activities
Strength is the source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.
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 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 lass you can become strong very fast and uplift your health and quality of life without taking away from your feminineness in the least.