A simple,effective method for strength training

Strength training is important no matter you are a martial artist,sportsman,weight lifters orsimply a layman who wishes to be fit. However there are so many confusion out there,so many routine to follow that makes you wary of which one to follow. A pity,most of these routine may make great gains at first but witherafter a week and you start to feel that you have reached the ceiling. A plateau had been reached. Therefore to really know how to strength train is to know the "why" so as to plan your "how". To put in simple terms,strength training is about teaching your muscles to contractharder. Tension is strength,try lifting a heavy weight while maintaining a relax arm, it justcannot work. To lift heavier you have to contract harder.There are 2 ways to teach your body the skill of contraction. One is throught using weight such as dumbbell, barbell or kettlebell(come to my website if you want to know what is a KB).The other is bodyweight. You can use isometric strengthtraining or isotonic. Make the exercise harder by varying the leverage. If you can do two arm push upthen try one arm push up,if it is easier for you,try elevated one arm push up. You get the idea.You may ask which is better?In reality there is no different between weights and callanetic. Theyboth offers resistance and does not make a difference. You should be able to take care of yourselfin a desert but it is even better if you have a dumbbell, barbell or if not a kettlebell.Train wherever you are with what you have.In a nutshell the essence of this program:train 2-5 days per weekdo 2-5 sets of 2-5 reps not exceeding 5 reps in a setrest a lot in between until you feel freshdo not train to failure So how do it works?Say you want to improve your pull-ups number. The max you can do is 2 pull-ups to be conservative and soa typical workout could be this:1 sets of 2 reps rest until you feel confident to go again1 sets of 2 repsrest until you feel confident to go again1 sets of 2 reps rest until you feel confident to go again 1 sets of 2 reps There you have done 8 reps in a day compared to the fact that if you try pushing to failure you may become tiredfor the rest of the day. And training to failure also increase the risk of injury.Train smart be hard.If you want to be on the safe side,you can under do it by doing 4 sets of 1 reps. Just make sureyou train consistantly for 2-5 days. I am sure you will make gains in 2 weeks.Once in a while try do your best and see whether did you broke your pull-ups number.Do you have comments?You can email me at submission@fixthethings.com

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