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10 reasons why you might not be getting stronger

* June 10th, 2011
* By Lord Tezla
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I've had several people ask why they seem to not be getting any
stronger. I'm not talking about just weight lifters, but people doing
bodyweight exercises and kettlebells too. This can be a very
frustrating thing when you workout but don't have any strength gains.
Some of them even noticed an increase in size or definition, but no
performance or strength gains. Today I'm going to address a number of
reason that are a possibility as to why you might not be making any
performance gains.

1. Amino Acids

This is a magic work that is tossed around a lot in the field of
nutrition. Everybody talks about how their multivitamins and their
protein shakes contain amino acids and it's so awesome blah blah blah.
Well I'm here to tell you that this subject may be one of the prime
reasons you're not making gains in performance. Aside from regular
protein intake, your body needs amino acids to make gains and to
recover. Just because your product contains amino acids, does not mean
it contains enough, or all of the right kind. A couple of examples of
products that are focus on Amino Acids would be like Twinlab's
Cher-Amino(TM) or Universal's Animal Nitro(TM) which I use myself.

2. Repition

This is a common reason, but also widely known reason that you might
not be getting stronger. High rep sets do not cause strength gains.
They only give to big, useless muscle. This only applies to weight
lifting though, as high rep calisthenics will only make your muscle
denser, allowing for easier strength gains. The way to gain strength is
to increase the resistance. The closer to get to your one rep max with
perfect form, the more strength you will gain.

3. Synaptic Connection

This factor is your brains connectivity to your muscles via your
nervous system. How does this relate to strength gains? Simple. You
might be exercising using something you do not do often enough. In
order to gain strength from an exercise, sometimes you have to be good
at it. How do you do this? Simple. What did your mother tell you
growing up? In order to be good at something, you have to do it a lot.
When you do an exercise a lot, your brain makes synaptic connections to
better accommodate for the exercise you are performing. This is the
reason that even strong people have issues with things like free
standing handstands, is simply because they do not attempt them, or
their progressions enough. At any rate, this allows you to contract
your muscles harder because your recruiting more of these connections
to tell your muscle to contract. If you use that muscle a lot, it will
most definitely contract harder, and faster even.

4. Protein

This is probably obvious to the most of you, but if your not taking
enough protein you are not getting stronger. Muscles to not grow
stronger without protein. They don't grow bigger, nor denser without
protein. Protein is the essential building block for your muscles.
Always take more protein. Just to clarify, even though you may take
some sort of protein supplements with enhanced amount of BCAA's or
EAA's it does not replace a solid refined Amino Acid supplement.

5. Exercise

This is more of a case by case scenario. Some of you might not be
performing the right exercise to make yourself stronger in a certain
area. Take note of this and study the ways you are exercising to make
sure that they are actually even made to make the area stronger you
mean to be training.

6. Chemical Imbalances

No, I'm not saying your bipolar. If your body does not have the correct
levels of certain chemicals that cause your body to function
properly(GABA, Serotonin, Dopamine, etc) It could possibly prevent you
from making gains from your training like you should be making. The
best way to find out if this is the case it to go to a doctor and have
testing done to make sure everything is good.

7. Weights

I know this is a touchy subject for some of you, but relying on weights
too much can slow down your strength gains. If this is the case, try
doing some of the hardest variations of body weight exercises that
you're able to do for a couple of weeks. You can simply throw them in
your regular program. You might see a difference.

8. Diet

The way you intake food can mean a lot to your training. When training
for strength, it's not like training for size where you overload on
carbs. The best way to train for strength is to be on a low carb, high
fat, high protein diet. Give it a try.

9. Not taking enough breaks.

Too much is too much. Every now and then you need to take a break. This
applies to everyone. Your body may need some R&R every now and then
before you start getting stronger again. When you do this, you may get
stronger simply by taking a break. By break I mean anywhere from
several days to as couple of weeks. Just don't take too long off. When
you get back to training, you should see your gains start coming back
quickly.

10. Bad form

The last and probably most common reason for a lack in strength gains
is bad form. It doesn't matter what type of exercise your doing, if you
have bad form, you're not getting as strong as you should. This is the
reason that I detest kipping in some situations, because sometimes it
promotes bad form. The only time I promote kipping is on certain
exercises that you could not otherwise do without kipping, as long as
the form of the working muscles remains perfect as if it were strict.
Let's face it, if you can't do the exercise, you can't do the exercise.
Kipping may help you get there. Once you can do that exercise, STOP
KIPPING! Just remember, if your using too much momentum, and your form
isn't perfect, you're not making the most in the way of strength
training. If the form is flat out wrong, your not making strength gains
in the muscles you are supposed to be making strength gains in.

I hope this article helped some of you out there. Getting stronger is
one of the utmost important things in the human body, and not just for
athleticism, but also your health. Train hard. Live strong.
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