Weight Lifting Intelligently

I've written about weight lifting intelligent before but I think it's such an important subject I'm going to write about it again!

So many people fall into the mistake of thinking you have to go to the gym and lift weights heavily for 3 days a week to have success. They then wonder what's going on when they don't have that success?

The thing is most people actually OVERTRAIN. They don't give their muscles a chance to recover from their work outs and if you don't give them a chance to recover (ie grow bigger) then what's the point of lifting weights in the first place?

There's two big keys to gaining muscle. Lifting enough weight to activate muscle growth & giving muscles enough time to recover and to grow stronger between work outs.

Too many people go to the gym and lift X amount of weight for 3 sets of 8 reps. They will then move to another exercise that basically works the same muscle and do the same. Because they have all of these exercises planned they actually lift far less weight than they are actually able to and thus they never fully activate their muscle growth.

With weight lifting more is more (weight) and also less is more (sets & reps.) You should lift as much weight as you can for 8 reps, holding each reps for 5 seconds. Then you come back when you feel like you can lift more and you lift more! If you can't lift more then you didn't take enough time off. Get it?

I know this can be a bit confusing if you are stuck in the old way of thinking about building muscle but if you want to move into the "future" and lift weights intelligent - read Pete Sisco's "Lifetime Strength." It will make a huge difference in your muscle building success and it will actually have you spending less time in the gym!