How to increase the intensity level of your workouts

Anything you can do to make a workout harder will make you progress. There are three things you can do to increase the intensity of a workout.

Progressively increase the amount of weight you are lifting

Progressively decrease the amount of time it takes to perform a certain exercise

Take every set to complete failure

If we don’t increase the intensity of our workouts we don’t progress, but if we do we certainly will. If you follow workout programs e.g. 3 sets of 8 reps, and when you get to the eighth rep you stop whether you are tired or not you won’t grow, don’t aim for the reps but aim to hit failure at the end of every set. I used to when I first started training follow fitness magazines and do exactly the number of reps suggested whether I hit failure or not, once I started training to failure I saw great results I hadn’t experienced before.

If you have not experienced progress lately there are three things that could be responsible for this.

The intensity was not high enough to make you grow

Your workouts were too low in intensity and too long

The rests in between sets were too short to allow you to really push yourself

For help increasing the intensity of your workouts get a personal trainer to push you and give you new ideas for increasing workout intensity. Call us on 02089603655 to book a free consultation with one of our personal trainers.

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