Power comes from strength training. At the end of the day, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is walking around with a “V8 engine” (their muscle system) though barely firing on “4 cylinders” - not even a single person is truly utilizing their muscles to the extreme.

Your body actually keeps you from using all the strength of your muscles, as a safey mechanism. Your strength generally does not exceed 30% of your tendon structural strength. For instance, when people are electricuted their muscles often contract so hard that they break their bone structures.

For this reason, you can become A LOT stronger by learning how to “fire” more of your muscles and get them to tighten harder with more tension… if you just stick to these three rules for all-out strength training:

Rule No. 1: Give Attention To A Small Amount Of Full Body Exercises

Only focus on a few, full body exercises. You want your whole body to be strong, so you must train it all as one unit. Plus, you get optimal hormone stimulation by training your whole body this way. Squats, Deadlifts, Overhead Press, and the Bench Press fit the bill.

Rule #2: Focus on High Resistance

Your lifts should be performed with extreme resistance in order to produce strength. This is made by lifting weights (or performing body weight exercises with critical weight distribution and weak force) and by extremely contracting (tensing) your muscles as you lift.

The purpose is to gain extra muscle fibers by:

1. Pressuring each muscle as hard as possible during the exercise and…

2. While keeping high tension lifting the weight as fast as possible.

Third Rule: Concentrate on Multiple Sets of Low Reps

Since strength is a skill you can’t perform “sloppily”. Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Therefore, you have to learn being strong. Every rep should be made as entirely as possile (in line with the above guidelines). Maintain the reps at a low level so that you can remain mentally focused. In the same way, this will keep you from getting weary and sloppy.

To sum it all up: Lift as heavy as possible. As often as possible. While staying as fresh as possible.

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