This 2-Second Trick Helps You Build Muscle Faster, Says Top Trainer
This 2-Second Trick Helps You Build Muscle Faster, Says Top Trainer
When it comes to building muscle via strength training, there are three main ways to stimulate growth fairly quickly: you can increase your weight, you can perform more reps and sets as you experience gains, and you can decrease your rest period between sets. Or, of course, you can do all of the above.
However, there s yet another way to build muscle faster that you may have not tried before. It s utilizing what we in the fitness business call time under tension (TUT), which essentially refers to the amount of time that you activate a muscle during an exercise. Simply put: By activating your muscles for longer and by slowing down the eccentric or lowering phase of an exercise, you can reap some great benefits. In fact, according to one study published in 2016, volunteers who doubled the amount of time that they lowered the weight down on a bench