{"id":5063,"date":"2013-06-28T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inveske.co.uk\/what-does-it-mean-to-get-stronger\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:53:10","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-get-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/what-does-it-mean-to-get-stronger\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to get stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s an important question about the mysterious process all strength athletes are interested in. Physical strength is the ability to exert strength against an external resistance, but that\u2019s not what you are interested in: you\u2019re not a bodybuilder. For us, strength is a complex cognitive, mental, neural, endocrine, muscular-joint-skeleton system of producing the most efficient movement that will result in a successful lift. So you may have gotten stronger because:<\/p>\n

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  1. You improved your technique (the movement has become mechanically more efficient + you have cognitive mastery over the process that makes it mentally more \u201ceconomical\u201d)<\/li>\n
  2. Your nervous system developed the ability to recruit more motor units<\/li>\n
  3. You have more muscle to contract and produce strength (which doesn\u2019t mean much if this muscle is not optimally recruited)<\/li>\n
  4. Your emotional state is optimal for sub-maximal\/maximal strength efforts. You are more focused, less anxious, etc.<\/li>\n
  5. You have more fuel inside your cells (your nutrition is better)<\/li>\n
  6. There\u2019s less inflammation in your body, less cytokines to \u201cinform\u201d the brain not to over-reach<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first three have to do with your physical training at the weight room. Both periodization and routine composition play a major role. The other three items are unrelated to training. So, \u201cgetting stronger\u201d should be rephrased as \u201cgetting better at strength sports tasks\u201d. And that is very complex. Don\u2019t think muscle: think body and mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    That’s an important question about the mysterious process all strength athletes are interested in. Physical strength is the ability to exert strength against an external resistance, but that\u2019s not what you are interested in: you\u2019re not a bodybuilder. For us, strength is a complex cognitive, mental, neural, endocrine, muscular-joint-skeleton system of producing the most efficient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,141,1179,1120],"tags":[1889,15,186,1042,1777,1263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}