Getting Stronger Without Getting Bigger
This month’s Men’s Fitness highlights ways to get stronger without adding bulk.
Fitness Tips | Articles: No-Bulk Strength Training
Incredible relative strength isn’t just impressive in the gym-it has a tremendous carryover into the activities of daily living and sports. Whether on the street or an athletic field, you always have to maneuver your own body weight. And if you train your muscles to produce the maximum amount of force they can at that body weight, you’ll be able to run faster, jump higher, and make razor-sharp changes of direction a bigger guy with poor relative strength would be unable to duplicate (and he’d exhaust himself just trying).