The Importance of Time Under Tension
Muscle is built through time under tension. Whether you are a man or a woman it is the same for all of us. And trust me, the goal is muscle. Not everyone has a desire to build a competition physique. Most want to be the best version of themselves they can be. To do that you need muscle. To build muscle requires time under tension.
It’s interesting how most men gravitate toward heavy load and most women shy away from load to accomplish the goal of building muscle. People tend to rely on past experience or misinformation when it comes to getting into shape. The truth and the pathway are found in understanding how to create time under tension. This protects you from injury, accomplishes muscular fatigue, and is focused on creating the changes desired.
Time under tension is accomplished multiple ways.
- Repetition tempo
- Slow eccentric tempo
- Unstable environments
- Super Sets and Giant Sets
- Shorter rest periods
- Descending Sets
- Varying repetition counts
- Load
Notice that I mentioned load last? The reason for that is load is influenced by all the other factors. So, load should be determined for an exercise based on these other factors. The goal of load is to create the time under tension needed to cause muscular hypertrophy (growth and change) to the extent that accomplishes the goals.
Learning Time Under Tension
Fitness Revelation coaching revolves around training in a way that works best for each client based on their goals, experience, current condition, and past injuries. The focus is on increasing the volume of work, time under tension, by being effective and efficient in each exercise, each set, and each workout. Fitness Revelation provides the system to accomplish your desired results, in a way that saves you time. We can point the way; you just need to have the desire and will to do the work. Remember, this is intended to be a lifestyle, which takes discipline to change current habits, as well as being open to learning new things than you’ve been taught before.
