workouts Archives - Muscle Toughness

Bullying Your Legs Into Growth For 2020!

January 25, 2020December 25, 2019 by AbidineFit

You get under a bar knowing that the weight is going to dig into your traps causing pain. You stand up and immediately feel your legs starting to shake underneath you. On your descent, you feel the burning sensation in your legs but know you must go on. You lower yourself down and halfway there, you realize that you are halfway done. You lift yourself back up using every ounce of strength you have inside. Immediately you fall to the ground lying like a dead corpse. You feel like knives are digging into each one of your quads. Only the …

Negatives For Extreme Muscle Building And Strength Gains

January 25, 2020December 24, 2019 by AbidineFit

Introducing The Negatives Mechanical loading of your muscles is one of the key principles on which your training should be based. For a long time, however, muscle fatigue has been relied upon as a gauge for the effectiveness of one’s training. According to tradition, one must work the muscles to momentary muscular failure so as to cause as many muscle fibers as possible to receive a growth stimulus. Often it is suggested that the fast-twitch, or white, muscle fibers are not even called into action until the last few repetitions of a set. As discussed in support of Hypertrophy-Specific Training, …