If you are wondering why I concentrate on strength training to a great extent and think you should too in that case this article will tell you why.

Read this article now to discover some good reasons why I think building strength should be your number one goal (even if you just want to build a lot of muscle and burn a lot of fat)

1. Strength Training Is More Useful:

Ever needed to lift somewhat heavy? Move fixtures? Lift your girlfriend up and pin her against the wall for a sizzling make out session? All those things required strength, not necessarily muscle size.

As a matter of fact, every so often having supplementary muscle is not advantageous – it weighs more therefore if you have to run or walk long distances takes added calories to keep up, in a few words you have to eat more…

2. Building Strength Takes Less Time:

Most professional bodybuilders spend up to 6 days in the gym and some even do twice a day workouts. If you’re like me (or most people) then lifting weights isn’t your full-time job.

You can turn out to be super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend not exceeding 20-30 minutes in the gym each time – DoubleYourGains’ 3-5 Program takes 30mins/3x week. That means you could be spending 2 hours in the gym vs. 12. It doesn’t take long to build up strength.

3. Building Strength Is Inspiring:

Nearly all people don’t have any goals when they go to the gym, they think “I want to look better” but that’s uncertain and undetermined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift each time you set foot in the gym though is VERY motivating.

Plus, watching the weights build and seeing how far you’ve progressed over the course of time is very motivating and makes you want to keep going back to the gym.

4. Strength Makes It Easier To Build Size:

Most weightlifters these days don’t recognize that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early on their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.

They had a unique “dense” look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to use heavier weights when it came to doing traditional bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.

5. Better For Well-being:

There’s been loads of modern research that shows strength training helps to stop age related diseases and worsening diseases.

In a nutshell: Losing muscle mass is an inevitable result of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to “hold on” to muscle mass because it needs it to continue lifting heavy stuff.

Plus, your bones will get stronger too to support your framework of muscle mass.

6. Improves Self-Confidence

There’s nothing better than KNOWING you can pick a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up above your head. Or knowing that you have the strength to pull yourself up and over a wall up and over the edge of a cliff and things like that.

Knowing you are as strong as you look is a major confidence booster.

7. Strength Training Is Excellent For Athletics

Strength is the source for all other physical qualities. Boosting your strength enhances your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, and the like.

Plus, a lot of sports – especially martial arts – require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be very strong for their size because they have to stay within a certain weight class.

There’s nothing worse than acquiring 20 MORE pounds of muscle you have to carry down the field, or move around the ring to avoid getting knocked out – and that 20 pounds of muscle is not doing you any good.

8. Strength Training Is Better For Women

The majority of women don’t want to seem like the hulk. They don’t want to acquire 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get “toned”. As I mentioned in the past, strength training is the ultimate way to get the toned look.

So if you’re a girl you can get strong very quickly and improve your health and quality of life without taking away from your femininity in the least.