My Guiding Principles of Weight Training
My Guiding Principles of Weight Training |
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Gained through the experience of trial and error:
- Strength without control is meaningless in constructive weight-training.
- Weight-lifting should be the means, weight-training the end and not the other way around.
- Avoid over-training in sets and reps and adopt the strategy of Intensity : Intensity = Workload ÷ Time.
- The more weight you can lift in any given exercise the more inferior it is to its counterpart where the degree of lifting difficulty is greater.
- Your muscles grow while you are resting, not while you are training.
- All other factors being equal, your genetics will be the determining factor influencing the kind of physique you eventually produce.
- Whatever your goals or objectives treat weight training like a journey, however short or long. It is not a race.
- Weight training sessions lasting no more than 60-90 mins are more conducive to muscle hypertrophy than long drawn out sessions which may inhibit your recovery time.
- Basic compound movements are best suited (especially to beginners) for packing on muscular size.
- The degree of stress brought to bear on a particular muscle group is directly proportional to the muscle group’s response to the resistance inflicted upon it. Also for a muscle to grow it needs to be stressed, then fed, then rested.