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Although it’s rarely espoused by strength coaches, one of the surest and fastest ways to get strong at an exercise is to practice it very frequently. Remember that there are essentially two ways to get strong. One is through the muscular system which means getting bigger muscles. The other way to get strong is through the nervous system which means practicing an exercise over and over again. I can tell you without hesitation that the nervous system can be utilized exclusively for huge increases in strength and in relatively short amount of time. If one chooses to practice frequently, how often should one work on an exercise? Everyday or at least every other day. You should also vary the intensity from relatively easy to somewhat difficult. In my experience, going to muscular failure will take longer to recover from throughout the day than doing less difficult lifting. Why do you think that guys going into the army can do like 20 push-ups in the beginning and 100 push-ups at the end of a couple of months? They practice push-ups everyday.

Von

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