How To Instantly Get 10 Percent Stronger

If you’d like to almost instantly grow stronger, and lift ten percent more weight (at least)… with just a couple little “tricks”… then you should read this article now.

Have you ever thought about how your muscles work? How they get “activated” to lift a barbell or press a weight? Here’s the process in a nutshell:

• You decide you want to lift a weight
• You grab it and your mind sends a signal down your spine an into the nervous system of the muscles involved in the lift
• And your muscles start lifting the weight

That’s a really simplistic explanation, but that’s the basic process. Why is this important?

Because you can “hack” your muscles for instant strength increases!

The secret lies in getting the neural connection between your brain and your muscles to “fire” more effectively… which means you use more of the muscles involved… and your strength increases!

You do this with two methods:

1. Mental focus on contracting/tensing the muscles harder: Whenever you’re about to perform a lift you can visualize contracting the involved muscles as hard as possible, and them performing the lift.

So you don’t discount the effectiveness of this practice, In a recent study, subjects increased their bicep strength 13% in 3 months by simply visualizing tensing their biceps hard (without any exercise).

When you visualize in this way you’re increasing the “mental to muscle” connection with your muscles and teaching them to fire more effectively. For more proof notice that you can more easily flex your bicep because you’re used to constantly posing and flexing it (you know you do it)… than you are to flexing your hamstring muscles on the spot.

2. Increasing tension physically with High Tension Techniques: For upper body dominant moves such as pushups, overhead presses, bench presses, etc you can greatly increase your strength by gripping hard.

Do this test: Stand up and make a tight fist… now squeeze tighter… harder until your knuckles start turning white. Squeeze it even harder now! You probably noticed that all the tension from your fist carried up your forearm, through your shoulders into your chest, lats and you may have even flexed your abs and squeezed your glutes.

This is how you can grind out an extra few pushups (by gripping the floor hard) or bench press more weight (by squeezing the bar, and trying to crush it)… And it will even work for deadlifts, squats and other lower body dominant movements.

Why? Because as I’ve said before: tension = strength. The more tension you can create the more strength you’ll have.