Strength Training

Hi,

This week I want to get back on to my common thread about vibration training and strength. I want to talk a little about strength training from a nerve and brain perspective.

There is a lot of debate about what the best strength training programmes are such as high weight/low rep vs lower weight/high rep. It really depends upon what you are training for. To develop strength heavy weights have to be lifted at least some of the time. Your muscles now are capable of developing a lot more force than your brain and nerves will allow you to use. To increase your strength first you have to retrain the nerves, which you can only do by lifting almost all you can a small number of times.

If you lift lower weights more times then your nerves will adapt to do that very well, but it won't necessarily lead to large increases in strength. The key is training the nervous system the way you want it to work. But if you want to increase muscle mass then higher reps are advisable.

Some people may start worrying about injuries, but most injuries happen when the body is fatigued, high weight/low rep doesn't fatigue the body and concentration should be better. I think the risk of inury is less with higher weight training. The key to strength, like with vibration training is increasing the quality of the stimulus, and reduce the quantity.

This could be why vibration is so effective, the neural stimulus is much higher so the nervous system adapts giving you access to your unused strength.

Now combne this with youbreathe use to increase growth hormone and you should be on to a winner. Your training should also leave you energised, not exhausted, and should be done more often.

OK, I have been promising you a strength training manual for your youbreathe device, please click on the link below to download it. It is important that if you have high blood pressure or any cardio-respiratory disease to check with your doctor to make sure this is a safe form of training for you.

Strength Manual

See you next time.