Train Resistance Over Endurance

The first thing to know about fitness is resistance not endurance. If you are trying to build muscle or just tone muscle then you will want more resistance rather than endurance.

Even if you are looking to lose weight, you want tougher resistance rather than longer duration. That is why the first tip to exercise is HIIT (high intensity interval training).

You can incorporate HIIT into any of your routines, if you are doing pushups do them as fast as you can and try throwing claps in with them. However you should now that HIIT is for aerobic type routines, so if you are trying to shape your muscles or lose weight do this.

If you are trying to build muscle via weight lifting then you should do 5 reps of the highs weight you can do. If you can do more than five reps with whatever weight you have then it is time to increase the weight.

Having more weight is going to tear the muscles at a deeper level and much faster. The body is made to endure, so when you work at a comfortable pace you are not actually putting enough tension to build muscle, you are just casually burning calories.

You need to step outside of your comfort zone and try harder than you even want to. So higher intensity and heavier weights those are the two main things.

Every once in a while I would say about once a month I would say incorporate one session so lactic acid training. This is when you perform your weight lifting with very slow contractions and very vast abductions.

This is not good to do every time because the excess lactic acid is going to actually destroy muscle mass. However, it is good once a month if you want to have muscle that are big.

When the lactic acid enters s the muscle it sends a signal through your body telling you to produce more growth hormone. Growth hormone does two things, one creates muscle mass and two burns fat extremely fast.

After this routine I would recommend not stretching, that is just for this one single routine though. After this you want to let your lactic acids sit, this will create intense muscle soreness, but also produce more growth hormone.

During every other training session it is going to be important to stretch before and after your main routine. If you are incorporating warm ups with your exercises you should stretch after the warm up and before the main train.

So remember high intensity interval training, and greater resistance. These are the two things that are going to create dense muscle that is powerful and hard.

The stretching is to even out the strain and train your muscles through abduction. And lastly the lactic training only once a month, for extreme muscle growth.

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