Secrets to Building Workout Intensity
workout, pain, muscle fatigue, intensity, mental preparation
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Secret #1 Apply intensity with success
Working out with intensity is a process. You can't simply decide to go for it; you have to build up to full intensity by first developing the physical skills and strength needed.
Intensity is the application of maximum physical effort systematically applied to a technically developed motor skill. This means you must be experienced in a technique before intensity is applied. For example, if you're inexperienced at weight lifting but attempt a maximum deadlift with bad form, you risk injury. However, performing a maximum deadlift with expert skill and good form can actually help prevent training accidents.
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Secret #2: Going for the Gold
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Before you can be the best that you can be, you must first master the physical discomfort associated with intense physical activity. "No pain, no gain" refers to the mental development of pain tolerance to push your muscular endurance to the absolute limits of failure - thereby stimulating muscle growth.
Strength and endurance athletes use such terms as "pushing it to the limit", "to the max", and "hitting the wall" to describe these upper limits of performance. However, these don't imply reckless and dangerous techniques for maximum performance at any cost. Just the opposite. With regard to exercise, the terms refer to the skilled use of weight training techniques systematically applied to a working muscle group sufficient to cause temporary failure - without causing muscular injury. Therefore, you need to distinguish muscle burn and muscle fatigue from the pain of injury.
The burn from muscle fatigue subsides within 20-30 seconds, whereas injury pain is pronounced, sharp and continuous. Know your p... read entire entry
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on 4/1/2008
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