Training for Real-World Fitness
Workout-X is designed to balance and maximize the Five Components of Fitness and the three energy systems. Workout-X will help make you the fittest person you have ever been, and you will look the part!
Twenty-First Century Strength Training
When it comes to the incorporating cutting-edge training methods into your workout plan, we focus on four primary types: Weight Training, Functional “Real-World” Training, Metabolic Training, and High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Combining all four will help you to break through a plateau, build more muscle, or burn fat.
Weight Training (Strength Training)
Many confuse strength training with weight lifting or muscle mass building. These are very different and, depending on how you train, will produce different results.
In building muscle mass, you create larger muscles. A person who has larger muscles does not necessarily have a better capacity to handle everyday physical situations.
The goal of strength training is to get your body toned, mobile, and functional. The focus is on becoming stronger, which enables a better quality of life. Strength training can be lifting weights, using cable weight systems, machines, or even body movements. It can involve using progressively heavier weights to strengthen the skeletal system. You might better know strength training as weight lifting, body sculpting, toning, bodybuilding, resistance training, or weight training. All these terms can be applied to the same activity.
In strength training, the goal is to be stronger, which enables you to be more functional in daily activities. This style of workout requires moves that are consistent with life. They can include lifting boxes, squatting down to reach an item, or lifting something over your head. Strength training allows you to perform these movements with much more ease.
Strength training is beneficial for building a muscular body because the goal is to increase the strength and size of the fibers in your muscle. At the same time, strength training strengthens your ligaments, bones, and tendons. These changes all have a positive impact on your physical fitness, metabolism, and appearance. As an added bonus, they reduce the risk of injury and decrease muscle pain.
Strength training is a crucial component of weight loss and muscle conditioning, because our muscles are metabolically active tissue. The more muscle we have, the faster the metabolism is at rest. Without strength training program, the strength and size of your muscles will decline with age. We lose muscle as we age, but it can be preserved with strength training.
Using strength training to build a muscular body involves four simple principles. The first is the principle of tension, which is created through resistance. Developing strength means that you need to create tension within the muscle. Your resistance becomes the weights you lift or even your own body weight when doing exercises like push-ups.
The second principle is progressive overload, which is created by incrementally increasing the demands placed on the body’s muscular and metabolic systems. You may have noticed that some gym goers never seem to progress in their efforts. Many times this is because they have stopped challenging themselves with heavier resistance or more intense cardio sessions. In fact, their bodies have become well adjusted to the demands they are placing on them and have responded by showing no physical change.
The third principle is the specificity of training, which means that only the muscles you exercise will respond to the demands you put upon them. Focus on one muscle, and it will become larger. To see full-body development, use exercises that focus on all the muscle groups.
The last principle speaks to the importance of continuation. If you abandon your program, you will lose the strength that you built up (muscle loss begins within two weeks of discontinuing a program). Don’t let this happen to you!