I am enlightened. I’ve always been told that working out to the point where my muscles are exhausted is the best way to gain muscle and become stronger, but apparently not. I can work out a lot easier and not break a sweat all while gaining muscle and getting stronger. This seemed crazy to me because of how I was taught to work out. I simply had no idea that an easier workout could be just as effective as a harder workout. In “No pain, plenty of gain: why taking it easy can be the key to getting fitter and happier” by Joel Snape, he addresses this. People believe that if they are working out hard and aren’t gaining any muscle, then they are doing something wrong, but that is not the case. We don’t have to workout to the point of exhaustion …show more content…
For example, if my aerobic system isn’t as good as my anaerobic then I could increase the fatigue I get from working out overall. Training to failure, and having almost no benefit for increasing muscle strength or size, is worse than just lifting a certain number of reps in each set. I kind of agree that this fact stacks up because lifting until failure definitely increases muscle size after a while, but not as much muscle strength. Snape asked if it is possible to “make gains without feeling the burn”, and I think it is possible, but most of the time it doesn’t get people gains like working out until they’re tired. Snape quotes Zach Cahill when he says that “it depends” when it comes to making gains without feeling the burn because of what someone could be trying to …show more content…
The people that actually know the best ways to workout don’t really need to read this article because they already know everything about it. The issue revolves around an understanding of the issue. For example, “the difference between ‘aerobic’ workouts, which are the long slow ones where your body can use its stores of fat in conjunction with the oxygen you breathe, for fuel – and ‘anaerobic’ ones, where you simply can’t take enough oxygen on board to fuel your faster efforts so your body needs to burn glycogen, which it gets from consuming carbohydrates” (Snape). This gives a definition of the difference between aerobic and anaerobic workouts. There aren't really any consequences other than if you don’t exercise then you could get obese. A lot of people don’t really care if they get obese, so it’s not too serious of a