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 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 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 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 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 Inspiring:
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.
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 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 And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes - so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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 a lot of recent research that shows strength training helps to prevent age related diseases and degenerative 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. Builds Up 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 Great For Sports Activities
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 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 Better 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.