3 Strength Training Principles

by Caleb Lee

Strength training is a skill. Basically, everyone is walking around with a “V8 engine” (their musculature) but only firing on “4 cylinders” - no one is actually using their muscles to their fullest potential.

Your body actually keeps you from using all the strength of your muscles, as a safey mechanism. Your strength generally does not exceed 30% of your tendon structural strength. For instance, when people are electricuted their muscles often contract so hard that they break their bone structures.

For this reason, you can become A LOT stronger by learning how to “fire” more of your muscles and get them to tighten harder with more tension… if you just stick to these three rules for all-out strength training:

Rule #1: Focus On A Few Full Body Exercises

If you want your entire body to be on top form, just give attention to a limited full body exercises. Therefore, you should do it all as one unit. As well as you will find ideal hormone stimulation by training your whole body by way of this. Squats, Deadlifts, Overhead Press, and the Bench Press are perfect.

Rule #2: Focus on High Resistance

To build strength your lifts must be done with high resistance. This is done by lifting heavy weights (or doing bodyweight exercises with unfavorable weight distribution and poor leverage) and by maximally contracting (tensing) your muscles as you lift.

The purpose is to gain extra muscle fibers by:

1. Tightening up every muscle as firmly as possible during the course of the workout and…

2. At the same time sustaining high tension lifting the weight as rapid as possible.

Rule No. 3: Give Attention To Multiple Sets of Low Reps

Because strength is a skill you can’t practice “sloppily”. Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. So you must practice being strong. Each rep must be done as perfectly as possible (according to the above guidelines). Keep the reps low so you can stay mentally focused. Also, this will keep you from getting fatigued and getting sloppy. Avoid muscle failure.

In other words, you should learn to lift weighty stuff as possible. While remaining invigorated as possible.

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