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Ways To Increase the Difficulty of Your Workouts

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Ways To Increase the Difficulty of Your Workouts

Your workouts should be challenging and put your physical fitness to the test. But when you don’t feel as challenged, you need ways to amp up the difficulty to improve your gains, and there are ways to do that. Read on for ways to increase the difficulty of your workouts.

Add Weight in Different Areas

When we exercise, we put enough stress on our muscles to cause them to tear, and when they heal, they become stronger and larger. Weightlifting is a quick way to achieve this. But after a while, the exercise won’t feel as strenuous, and lifting heavier weights isn’t as much of an exciting challenge.

Instead of lifting more weights, you could add more weight to your body to make your movements more difficult. Use ankle weights to improve leg exercises and make them more challenging.

Wear hand weights while performing bicep curls to subtly add more difficulty to your workout. The added weight makes it harder to keep your wrist straight, strengthening your forearm and your bicep with each rep.

Slow Down

While your heart’s pumping and adrenaline’s coursing through you, it’s tempting to move faster when exercising. But if you finish a workout too quickly, your body won’t gain as much muscle because you use most of your energy to power through.

Slow down when you work out to add more difficulty and use more effort to complete your set. When you work out, your body grows used to your actions, even the strenuous ones. When you grow used to using a burst of energy to work out, your body won’t have the muscular endurance it needs to keep a muscle contracted for longer periods. This lack of contraction leads to a harder time performing physical fitness. Slowing down will make your workouts more challenging and improve your body’s ability to perform for longer.

Change the Style of the Workout

There are variations of certain exercises that will create more of a challenge for you. For example, there are numerous ways to perform push-ups besides the typical style, such as diamond or lateral push-ups. If you lift dumbbells, there are reverse grip exercises that elevate your workout.

Variations will work out different muscles and add difficulty to the ones you usually use. Changing how your body moves will add a new twist to your workout that your body will need to adjust to.

The exercise you do should always have a level of difficulty, as that will help you improve. Use these methods to enhance your workout and give yourself the challenge you need for better gains.

 

admin @ Inspire Your Journey

April 18, 2023/by Logical Position Publishing
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