Introduction To Weight Training Intensity

Training
The overload concept of exercise program design suggests that an exercise stimulus must be administered at a higher intensity than the body is used to cause physiological changes. Reaching a plateau, where exercise no longer seems to affect the body stops making any physiological changes, is one of the most typical obstacles faced by the ordinary fitness enthusiast. This occurs because, similar to the Groundhog Day scenario discussed above, repeating the same workouts with the same weight for the same amount of repetitions will not provide enough overload to trigger physiological changes. Resistance training requires performing enough repetitions to generate momentary exhaustion of the relevant muscles or using a heavy enough resistance to cause fatigue after only a few repetitions to cause an adaptation. A high-intensity heavy load puts mechanical…
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Strength Training for Women Demystified

Training
When you realize lifting pink dumbbells, gym membership, and as seen on TV workout at home programs won't get you anywhere, then you are ready to discuss strength training. Many women have been brainwashed to believe that they will become "muscle-bound" bodybuilders if they lift heavy. They don't realize how hard those dedicated athletes have to work and how much sacrifice they must make to add those muscles. And they miss the fact that female hormones, naturally, will limit their muscular development. The sad part is that this conceptual error for many women causes slow progress in changing their body composition and getting results. Strength training with progressively heavier weights is one of the surest ways for women to change their body composition to include more fat-burning muscle tissue and…
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Definition of Strength

Definition
Unlike the everyday use of strength and strength training that is limited to physical aspects, the word strength itself has much broader meanings. To be strong in the strictest sense includes muscular power, vigor, mental power, moral power and courage, potency, and the ability to resist force. Many confuse strength training with weight training, resistance training, and muscle training. To get stronger in lifting weights, you need to increase your ability to lift weights. You can do weight training without progression all your life without getting stronger. You can choose lite weights and do hundreds of reps and call it resistance training without getting stronger. The word “strength” came from the Old English word, “strengþu,” which translates to “force," among other things. You are stronger when you can either exert…
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Core Strength Exercises

Training
Exercises that Build Core Strength Exercises to build a strong core treat both the front of your body and the back as one solid unit. When you transfer energy from your legs to your upper body, energy must be transferred through a solid conduit. A weak front or weak back allows the energy to escape and not reach its destination. With heavyweights, energy leakage in front could cause an abdominal hernia, and if it leaks through the back, it could cause herniated discs. In all core strengthening exercises, you need to learn to brace your core which means you tighten all the muscles around your spine. Tightening is not the same as hallowing that happens only in front like belly dancers. Tightening the core muscle prepares the body to receive…
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