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How can you improve your strength?

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You can improve strength through correct diet and exercises. Your diet should have lots of protein in it, if you work out hard, so your body will get enough energy to grow muscles. Make sure all your muscle groups get enough exercise (because, for example, when you only train your abs and pecs and you ignore back muscles, you can get bad back pain).

Lifting weights regularly and healthy eating will increase your strength and build lean muscle. Try squats and dead lifts and eat foods with plenty of protein.

Do weight training no more than three times per week.

Yes, the best overall approach to build lean muscle (or to build muscle and burn fat) involves three components:

Strength/Weight Training
Eating correctly, correct feeding frequency, sufficient protein
Cardio exercise (if you also need to burn fat.

In my opinion, don't strength train more than 3 times a day. To gain pure strength its not about muscle gain its about neuromuscular coordination, meaning more muscle fibers are recruited and your muscles become more efficient in the lift. To do this you will want to lift heavy heavy weights, the most you can lift for 1-5 reps, if you can do more than 5 reps, your weight is too light. Tempo is another important factor in gaining strength. You should vary your tempo fairly frequently as well as changing your workouts every few weeks. The most common tempo is 30X0 which is a 3 second lowering or eccentric phase with no pauses at the top or bottom and as fast as you can in the lifting or concentric phase. Isometric holds can be added at points of weakness to improve in those areas, but isometrics are only applicable in a 15 degree range on either side of the position they are held.

For in-depth information about how to build muscle and improve strength, and for the free programs and plans to show you how to do it, see the page link, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.

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