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Deep Muscle Fatigue is Key to Successful Fitness Training
Numerous studies show that attaining temporary deep muscle fatigue, also known as “muscle success,” during workouts is the key to getting positive results from strength-and-fitness training. Muscle success is achieved when the act of moving weights while working out is momentarily impossible because the muscles have become too fatigued to do so. If a person is not able to push or pull for several more seconds, deep temporary fatigue in the targeted muscles will have been reached. It is at this time in a workout when the greatest benefits are gained, because deep momentary fatigue in a muscle delivers a message to the body that it needs to get stronger, develop better muscle tone, and boost its metabolism.
Within limits, the deeper the muscles become momentarily fatigued, the greater the changes that are triggered in the body. Due to the natural tendency to quit a set of weight-training repetitions before muscle success, working with a personal trainer is highly beneficial. At this point the muscles often vibrate and burn so it is best to work with a fitness trainer who will provide the motivation to continue with a workout despite feeling this uncomfortable sensation.
Although a full-body workout can last only 20 minutes, the results gained from achieving muscle success on each exercise include greater strength and endurance, added lean muscle tissue, reversal of age-related muscle loss, improved metabolism and fat loss, and stronger bones, among many others.
Cardiovascular health is improved
Two additional but seldom-mentioned benefits of muscle success are improved cardiovascular health, and the fact that it provides an impartial way to monitor individual progress in strength-and-fitness training. The Journal of Exercise Physiology addressed this topic by examining 157 studies centered on the cardiovascular benefits of strength training to the point of muscle success. Although strength training as a whole offers multiple advantages for the cardiovascular system, the authors note that many of these benefits are obtained or magnified only when training is done to the point of muscle success.
For instance, one of the studies examined by the Journal showed that after three months of training, men and women of diverse ages experienced long-term increases in overall blood flow as a result of muscle success. In another study, training to total muscle fatigue increased artery size. This result was positive because larger arteries are less likely to undergo a heart attack-inducing blockage. Performing an exercise to muscle success also enhances the arteries’ capacity to enlarge when blood flow rises, thus reducing stress on artery walls. In this way, fitness training to the point of muscle success aids health through means that might not be possible if this point is not reached.
Performance tracking becomes easier
Besides enhancing cardiovascular fitness, muscle success also offers an objective assessment tool for strength-training performance. For example, if a person attains muscle success when lifting 200 pounds in 60 seconds on the leg press, this becomes a measure of their current ability with respect to leg-and-hip strength. However, if they stop exercising at 60 seconds, the length of time during which they lifted provides no useful data, because they might have been able to lift for a much longer period.
Therefore, besides improving strength and appearance, reaching muscle success triggers positive changes in the cardiovascular system and provides a means to objectively measure an individual’s progress in strength-and-fitness training.
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