Health: Simple truth about resistance training

Simple truth about resistance training

Written by Charles Blain

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fundamentals of training. The club is just a tool to help you achieve your goals. An axe is a great tool but repparttar 115456

wood doesn’t get chop by itself. If you visit any gym across America you will always find somebody that comes here just to be there. Most often it is that person that is throwing a light set of weights around and his/her attention is completely on something else. They usually exercise with a weight that is so light that they could do it in their sleep. Their form is always questionable at best. They try to rush thru their sets so they can go back to repparttar 115457

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things that are going to help you reach that goal. Resistance training when done properly will improve your metabolism. But in order to have consistent improvements you need to consistently challenge your muscles. Whatever you put your body thru it will rise to repparttar 115464

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OVER-TRAINING

Written by Gil Burgos

HIT Progress Reports

Hello HIT'ers,

This week I'd like to discuss repparttar topic of over-training. One of my new clients had repparttar 115451 pleasure of increasing his strength some 40% - since his last Chest (upper-body) workout. Note, his last chest workout was about 10 days ago!!

My client is new to Heavy Duty/High Intensity Training; however, he IS a good student and has taken repparttar 115452 time to listen and grasp these new principles of exercise. By doing so, he has relatively been successful in EVERY workout.

Unfortunately, though, I haven't had repparttar 115453 same success with another new client of mine. Somehow he had to learn repparttar 115454 hard way. Lately, he has not had ANY strength gains! Why? Well, he has repparttar 115455 notion that he must workout at least 3-4X a week (as most people think) and wants to train before he even recovers from his previous workout. Big mistake!

Now, one must realize that HD/HIT training is not like any other type of training. Most people in repparttar 115456 gym train with a lot of volume: 3-5 sets, 10-12 reps, with about 20+ exercises @ low intensity. Their workouts usually last about 45-60 minutes in duration. HD/HIT workouts, however, consist of 1 set to failure with 5 or 6 exercises - ranging from 12-20 minutes in duration!! With a greater stress on repparttar 115457 whole physiological system. Big difference, mind you.

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