Strength Training Tips: 4 Tips To Increasing Strength Fast

I don’t care what sport you do…

…if your stronger it’s gonna help to be better.

Now strength training and bodybuilding are different. You have to know your goals.

Strength Training vs. Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding, aimed at developing each and every single muscle, does increase strength, but it’s sole purpose is not to increase strength per say.

When you’re body building you usually do sets of 8-15 reps and 5 sets (first one being a warm up). Then you try to work each muscle group with 12-16 sets of various exercises.

You totally fatigue the muscle group and work your sets to failure to develop the full muscle as completely as possible.

When you are training for strength the sole purpose of every workout is to increase your strength. So, you don’t do high reps except to warm up but, you do more sets.

You focus more on a good warm up, then doing sets of 3-6 and sometimes 8 repetitions… And occasionally a max day where you do repetitions of 1-3.

Also when training for strength, your main exercises are first bench, squats, and deadlifts (Power Lifts).

Then secondly clean and jerks and snatch (Olympic Lifts aka Weight Lifting).

When your body building you focus on every muscle in the body and although you have core lifts like the bench, deep squats, chins, and deadlifts. It doesn’t stop there. You work all the little muscles and do all types of different lifts to failure.

Bodybuilding and Strength training can work together and should. They help each other and will help you to dominate your sport.

4 Strength Training Tips

1. Lift at least 3 days (minimum per week) and have 1 full day devoted to each type of lifting. One day for Bodybuilding, one day for Olympic Lifts, and one day for Power Lifts. This will help you develop a very strong all around body, while working on pure strength and power moves also. The rest time on bodybuilding days should be around a minute, but not more than 3. One power lifting and Olympic lifting days your rest time should be about 3 minutes between each set.

2. Focus on Form. This is so important. In order to work the muscle properly and get out of the workout what you intended to from the beginning you have to keep in form, plus it will help you decrease injuries.

3. Do sets of 3 repetitions. Only doing 3 reps help you to increase the weight (in which your muscles learn to adapt to lifting more weight) and keeps you from getting fatigued.

4. Core lifts. If you want to increase strength as fast as possible, put a lot of focus on your core lifts like bench, squats, and deadlifts. But don’t forget to get some chins in there too

Here’s to getting stronger and dominating your sport.

To Your Happiness,

Kenney

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