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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 right now to learn several good reasons why I think building strength should be your main goal (even though you just want to build bigger, more robust muscles and melt away loads of fat)…

1. Strength Training Is More Functional:

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

In fact, sometimes having excess muscle is not useful – it weighs more so if you have to run or walk long distances takes more calories to maintain, meaning you have to eat more

2. Building Strength Takes a Lesser Amount Of Time:

Majority of expert weightlifters spend up to 6 days in the gym and some even do twice a day workouts. If you’re like me (or most people) therefore lifting weights isn’t your permanent job.

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

3. Building Strength Is Inspiring:

Nearly everyone don’t have any goals when they go to the gym, they think “I want to look better” but that’s unclear and open-ended. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift whenever you come 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 bodybuilders today don’t understand that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early in their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.

They had a matchless “dense” look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to employ heavier weights when it came to doing out-of-date bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.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. Builds Up Self-Confidence

There’s nothing better than KNOWING you can pick a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up over 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 main confidence booster.

7. Strength Training Is Better For Sports

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 putting on 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 doing you no good.

8. Strength Training Is Great For Women

Nearly all women don’t want to be like the hulk. They don’t want to gain 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get “toned”. As I mentioned earlier, strength training is the greatest way to get the toned look.

So if you’re a woman you can get strong very quickly and boost up your health and quality of life without taking away from your womanliness in the least.