Fast, Efficient Muscle Fitness: High Intensity Strength Training For Bulk Or Toning

Perhaps fitness is something you truly desire but have yet to truly achieve. It may be that you want to dedicate yourself to regular, vigorous exercise, but simply cannot find sufficient time in your schedule to spend doing lengthy workout routines. The result might be that you have been left feeling frustrated and disappointed at your inability to succeed in this particular realm of life. Fear not, as there is a great exercise technique that may be just the solution you need.

If you want to create a fitness plan that is highly efficient and maximizes your time at the gym, then in addition to your cardiovascular workouts, you may want to try a more efficient weight training routine.

High Intensity Strength Training involves shorter workout times at higher intensities, allowing you to get in and out of the gym fast, without sacrificing the quality of your workout.

High intensity interval training, often shortened simply to HIIT, is an exercise strategy that can produce the results you want in far less time than you may have believed possible. HIIT workouts should not be mistaken for a silver bullet when it comes to boosting fitness, because hard work will still be required.

The goal is to maximize your workout by adapting the repetitions, the amount of weight lifted, and the length of time that the muscle is exposed to tension.

Typically, you’ll lift heavier weight with fewer repetitions, at a very slow pace. This technique is often called “one to failure”, because the goal is to work the muscle or muscle group during each set almost to the point of total muscle fatigue—meaning if you tried to lift one more time, you probably couldn’t do it.

This type of strength training increases your overall muscle mass, making the muscles stronger, more efficient, and larger. That is to say, it CAN do that, but it doesn’t have to—a good trainer, schooled in the proper method, can devise a workout tailored for a woman who doesn’t want to look “too buff”, but just wants to get some toned muscle definition.

High intensity strength training is extremely effective at fat burning, and can increase your resting metabolic rate, thereby increasing your rate of calorie burn for 24 hours after your workout. It can also be up to four times more efficient than other training methods.

The best part is that this type of training can be done in only fifteen minutes! So even though it can be very tiring, it’s over quickly, and it’s easy to fit into your schedule. This type of training should be done no more than three times per week, and you MUST wait at least 48 before you can do another high intensity strength workout, so that your body has enough time to rest and recover. During the workout, you should be moving from one exercise to the next, without rest, and working out the entire body each session, not just working on the upper or the lower part of the body only.

HIIT workouts are so incredibly effective because of their ability to facilitate calorie and fat burning of just during the workouts themselves, but also well into the hours following such sessions. So, the benefits of these routines continue even after you have stopped exercising. This is a tremendous positive that should not be overlooked. In addition, these kinds of workouts have been shown to halt the muscle loss that frequently accompanies significant weight loss (which is what many people are attempting to accomplish through exercise in the first place).

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