Strength Training

Information, articles, and tips about strength training as it relates to the process of building muscle and losing weight on a natural way. Maintaining your strength and muscle tissue during a weight loss program can increase the amount of fat you burn while you are at rest. Learn about ways to maintain and train to increase your strength and muscle mass.

Strength training means exercising your muscles to maintain or increase strength.

The goal of a healthy weight loss program should be to lose body fat; not muscle mass. As you start out on a weight loss program, you’ll not only lose body fat (and water), but you’ll also inevitably lose muscle mass. Strength training is meant to counteract this loss.

This section contains a list of articles that discuss training techniques and strategies to maintain strength and muscle mass.

The 3 best muscle groups to train for increased strength

Learn which muscle groups are the best muscle groups to train to increase your strength fast and effectively.

How many reps should you do to increase strength?

The amount of repetitions you do for any exercise has an effect on your fitness level and development. Learn how many reps you need to do when exercising to increase strength, build muscle, or increase endurance.

How to group muscle groups for an effective workout

Learn how to combine muscle groups together in a workout to get the most out of your workouts when it comes to gaining muscle mass, strength, or muscle endurance.

Weight training machines or free weights? What is best?

Learn what the benefits are of working out with free weights vs. using weight training machines, and which training method you should choose if you want thorough muscular development of the muscle groups on your body.

Muscle soreness and stiffness: Causes and remedy

Learn what you can do to prevent muscle soreness and stiffness, and if you are experiencing sore muscles, what you can do to cure muscle soreness.

Using a pull chin-up bar and progressive overload training to increase lats strength

Learn how to correctly apply the progressive overload training principle to increase strength in large muscle groups, such as your Latissimus Dorsi (lats) by doing chin-ups either at home or at the gym using a pull chin up bar.