Focus On Your Strength, Not Your Image!

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The reason we all strive for weight loss or exercise is always the same thing, to look great! It’s hardly ever for health reasons; it’s for a superficial reason. This breeds a wrong type of attitude to exercise, one where we are doing pointless amounts of crunches, and not getting the right type of gains. When push comes to shove, for many people that go to the gym seven days a week, they aren’t even building a good quality set of muscles, which means that they aren’t building any strength! What I’m pushing is that if you focus on gaining strength instead of abs, your body will look great, but you will also have the strength to back it up! And here’s some approaches to starting for strength!

Go For The Classics!

50 years ago, there were no nautilus machines to do the work for you, you simply lifted free weights! There is a reason why the squat and the deadlift always make the essential exercise lists, it’s because they are fantastic compound movements and ones that will give you a lot of strength.

The 5 x 5 workout program pioneered by Reg Park (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mentor) is a very popular, and simple, approach to building muscle. 3 moves per workout, 25 reps (broken down into 5 x 5 sets) for each one, 3 days a week, and that’s it! The weight increases each time you successfully complete a workout, meaning that you gain strength naturally and gradually. If you fail a rep, you go back to a lighter weight until you can complete it. Of course, if you don’t adequately fuel yourself with the right foods and supplements, you won’t see much of a gain.

There are ways to turn on your HGH (human growth hormone), and there is HGH for sale reviewed by Fitness To Go available online for those that lack in time to make their meals for the week. But for most of us, cooking a couple of chickens and having a stock of vegetables and rice in the fridge should be priority number one on the list.

Use Your Bodyweight

If you don’t have the luxury or the finances to get to the gym, the other option to consider is the good old fashioned burpee. A compound bodyweight exercise that is hard to beat is the burpee. From a standing position, go to a press up, jump in towards your hands, stand, and jump up. Repeat! The prison workout takes the burpee to the next level; you start off in one corner of your “cell” and do 20 burpees, go to the next corner and do 19, and so on until you collapse!

The best place to begin with getting natural strength should be by being able to lift your bodyweight. Many people in the gym can easily cheat with their dumbbells, but when you are lifting your own weight, it’s in your best interest to make sure you are doing it properly or you will break something! Doing burpees or pull ups are fantastic ways to get used to lifting heavy weights.