Adam Schafer

Lifting is a lot of that is a skill.

Now, yes, muscles are involved and bigger muscles contract harder, but...

But the way your muscles work together, the way that they contract together and stabilize and how the central nervous system organizes everything is what gives you that strength.

And practicing fewer exercises and movements allows you to really hone in and develop that skill of the lift.

And doing short daily workouts gets rid of all the fluff.

When you're looking at it and you're going, okay, what can I cut off?

What can I cut away?

You're left with the ones that are really important.

Then when you just practice those, and there's more that goes to this, by the way, suddenly you get really good at those lifts that you're trying to practice.

So strength is strongly correlated to muscle size.

In other words, the stronger you get,

tends to point to building more muscle.

Now, the bigger you get, the less this becomes a correlate.

But especially for the first, let's say, three years of your strength training, the best way to build muscle is to get stronger.

Nothing comes close

to adding 30 pounds to your squat or 20 pounds to your overhead press.

You add weight to the bar, especially for the first three years, you're building more muscle.

Now, later on when you're more advanced, it's less of a correlate.

However, I will say this, if you've been training for years and you've gotten to a place where you stopped seeing how strong you can get, and it's been a long time, it's been five years, five years of me actually training to see how strong I can get,

Go train to try to get stronger.