The Mind-Muscle Connection

Building the perfect workout is alot like building a house.  You start with the foundation and move upwards.  A precisely engineered workout plan can be the difference between reaching your goals and falling short.  A solid workout plan has a good balance of active and rest days and are scheduled logically.  It also has training of muscle groups scheduled efficiently to allow for sufficient rest and recovery between workouts.  See below for a breakdown of each aspect that is important to building the perfect workout

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In the quest to get bigger, faster, stronger and leaner, lifters turn to resistance training to get them to their goals.  Providing resistance against movements can be accomplished in many ways.  Isometric movements are where the body part is holding still against a force.  Isotonic movements are where the body part is moving against the force.  The overall goal for resistance training is to gradually and progressively overload the musculoskeletal system so it gets stronger.

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