Eating my morning breakfast tacos and thinking about training and what actually moves the needle…
Two thing we need to remember for weightlifting gains
#1 - Consistency
As much as strength is going to help us, this is a SPORT for a reason. Like any other sport, we need skill acquisition in order to improve, IE, we need to practice. Every training session is another practice, and he who practices the most will gain greater skill than his peers.
#2 Intensity
While practice improves our skill set/technique in the sport, intensity is the factor that determines how our central nervous and musculoskeletal systems adapt to training. We can train with moderate weights as much as we’d like to, unless we are pushing hard in training then our bodies won’t have an intense enough stimulus to warrant any sort of meaningful adaptation.
So, train often, and train hard.
Happy Thursday, let’s close out this week strong!