What is Resistance Training?
This new term of “Resistance Training” may seem something new to you but you may be surprised that they are simply synonyms for the usual terms we know better as weight training or strength training. Resistance training involves using your muscles to overcome a resistance. The resistance might be weights, your body weight, gravity, medicine balls, grocery bags, furniture, etc.
If you understand this idea, that anything that makes it more difficult for you to perform a movement is resistance, than you are more likely to believe me later when I tell you that you don’t need to go to a gym with lots of fancy equipment and matching dumbbells and barbells to get a well-rounded resistance workout.
Goals or Resistance Training include:
- Build muscle endurance. This is improving the ability of the muscle to repeatedly generate force.
- Build muscle. This involves increasing muscle mass (getting bigger muscles).
- Lose weight. This refers to dropping pounds. And, I mean from your body, not on or around it.
- Get stronger. This involves improving your muscles capability to move more weight or generate more force.
- Develop power. This is improving your body’s ability to generate force quickly. I think of power as moving heavy stuff fast.
- Training volume. In resistance training, Training Volume = Number of Repetitions x Number of Sets x Resistance.
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