How To Correctly Lift Weights

It is important to learn how to perform exercises correctly to avoid injury to yourself. It may be hard to learn new movements but practice and starting ‘light’ will assist in your body getting used to the strenuous movements. You lift weights to break down muscle. That might sound extreme, but that’s exactly what you are doing. You’re doing it on a perfect scale however, where the damage can be repaired between workouts, and your body can develop new muscle in preparation to better cope with future exercise. It is important to ask for assistant from a professional trainer or seek information via your own research before attempting to conduct a foreign exercise.

What most people don’t realise however is that lifting for strength is different than lifting to grow muscle. While lifting big weights will ultimately lead to an increase in muscle mass, it won’t do so as good as lifting specially or bodybuilding. To improve strength, your rep range is generally 4-6 reps, this tells your body that it needs to get stronger. To improve muscle mass however, we need a rep range of 8-12 reps. this causes microscopic tears in the muscle, which when repaired will have new muscle built in these tiny little gaps. You do however need to get your strength level to a certain level before you will be achieving the body of your dreams. To help in increasing the strength and speed up the process, you can try increasing the weight so you can only do 4-6 reps rather then 8-12 reps of a lighter weight. This will help you in getting your weights up to a respect-able level, whilst achieving maximum muscle gains.

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