Strength Training

Our daily lives don’t give us the opportunity to use all of our muscles. “If you don’t use it, you lose it,” is certainly true you’re your muscles. Make sure all of your muscles get used and stressed with consistent strength training.

Muscles protect your body from injury, burn calories just by being there, and could save your or a friend’s life one day.

If you are interested in adding as much muscle as possible, then check out our body building (Membership Required) section.

(Women: For those of you who avoid weights because you are afraid strength training will make you look larger or manlier, you are sadly misinformed. The female body does not have enough testosterone to add significant muscle. Besides, as any guy can tell you, building muscle is usually a very slow and labored process. You can’t wake up overnight and realize you look a lot bigger than the day before.)

For those of you who are more interested in general health and fitness, one or two sessions a week is enough. Just grab some weights and do high-repetition training. Doing lots of reps with lower weights will build your lean muscle, burn calories, aid balance, and enhance your endurance.

If you don’t have access to weights or a gym, then sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, squats, and lunges will hit the vast majority of your muscle groups. Start out with 2 sets of 10 each, then add sets and reps as you progress.

Always stretch when done. It prevents injury, develops your range of motion, and allows your muscles to repair faster.

The key here is dedication. Many in the fitness industry say it takes 6 months to get in shape, but only 6 weeks to lose it.