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Weight
Training Workout
What Determines Your Success
When
Building Muscles in The Gym?
The margin of time that determines muscle
building
success or failure in the gym is a heck of a lot shorter than you might
think. Just as fraction-of-a-second moments during a 100 metre
dash
will make or break a sprinter's race, fraction-of-a-second moments will
also make or break your body's muscle growth response in the gym.
In
fact, your entire margin of success in the gym can ultimately be
reduced to just a short time span of 60 seconds. That's correct, how
you choose to handle a short 60 second time period during your workouts
will translate to either poor, mediocre or significant muscle building
results.
Although each entire
workout will
last for about an hour, only 60 seconds of that actual time will
determine what kind of gains you achieve.
You may be scratching
your head
right now and wondering what the heck I'm talking about, but allow me
to explain…
You
see, every individual set that you perform in the gym is ultimately
being performed for the benefits that will be achieved on the last 1-2
reps. Muscles respond to stress, and the only truly stressful reps that
actually trigger your body's muscle building mechanisms are those at
the end of each set when the body is on the brink of muscular failure.
If
a given set consists of 6 reps, then reps 1-4 are only performed in
order to get to reps 5 and 6. Reps 1-4 will do very little in terms of
stimulating muscular growth, but are necessary to perform in order to
overload the muscles on reps 5 and 6.
In
other words, it is only the very last 1-2 reps that will ultimately
yield a muscle building response from the body. The longer you can push
yourself to battle the weights during this small time frame at the end
of each set, the greater results you will achieve.
Any
of you who have read my articles know that I'm a big advocate of
training to muscular failure. There is simply no better way to trigger
your body's adaptive responses than to train until your muscles cannot
move the weight another inch.
The
closer and
closer that you can come to muscular failure, the more dramatically
your body will respond. This time frame is literally measured in single
seconds. If you drop the weights 5-6 seconds earlier than the next guy
(the margin is probably even smaller than this), you'll be
significantly sacrificing your muscle growth.
So, where did the
60-second time
frame come from?
Well,
if we assume that you perform 10 total all out sets per workout and
have a margin of 6 seconds between success/failure per set, this gives
you 60 seconds of total time per workout to either battle through with
full effort or to surrender and settle for mediocre results.
It
really is true; your bodybuilding success is literally measured by the
short, precise moments at the very end of each set and the amount of
effort you are willing to exert during this time.
If
you can force yourself to train to all out muscular failure, you'll
achieve the best results possible. If you drop the weight 3 seconds
before muscular failure, your growth will be compromised. If you drop
the weight 8 seconds before muscular failure, your growth will be
compromised even further.
If we multiply our
60-second figure by my recommended number of 3 workouts per week, this
means that your bodybuilding success in the gym will literally be
measured by how you choose to handle one short 3 minute long period per
week.
I bet you never
thought of it this
way before!
You
must train hard and with full effort at all times. When the weight
feels heavy and your muscles ache and burn with discomfort, you must
push through and continue until true muscular failure is reached.
If you stop short,
even a second
short, your gains will be compromised.
Keep this in mind at
all times in
the gym and you'll experience better results than ever before.
If
you want to learn some awesome psychological techniques for breaking
through the pain barrier and “mentally numbing” the
discomfort
associated with hard training, make sure to visit my website using the
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