Whats strength training and what is conditioning? Do they require different approaches to training? Do women do strength training?
What type of people go for strength training as opposed to conditioning?
Re: Strength training vs Conditioning/Toning
everyone has different goals..some just want to have toned body and others want bodies that people could notice.. generally, people who want to be noticed go for stregth training and people who go for toning are either slightly overweight or have loose skin,so they go for toning first and then think about doing stregth training.
Re: Strength training vs Conditioning/Toning
Ok lets look at it from another angle. You have bodybuilding champions and world's strongest men. I don't think you would find bodybuilding champions amongst the strongest men, but I could be wrong.
Re: Strength training vs Conditioning/Toning
I was into bodybuilding for a while. The things I learned include....when you push hard and harder, your muscles get little tears in them. And you feel pain. If you leave that area alone for 2 days, they heal nicely enough that they get bigger. So if you're into building muscle then work on a specific set of muscles on day 1, a different set on day 2 and then go back to the day 1 muscles.
When you're working on maintenance, work out but only till you START to feel the pain.
Re: Strength training vs Conditioning/Toning
I think strength training is about doing less reps and even sets, but trying to lift the maximum that you physically can.
I agree with everything suggested.
Toning falls under the umbrella of, as Arshad mentioned, doing more reps but with lower weights. Eventually, after repeating this exercise, the body becomes to get defined and the more of it is performed, the more it falls between the grey area of strength training and conditioning, as some parts of the body starts to get defined.
Initially, the conditioning is limited to doing what you can with minimal exercises but doing more of it and as time progresses and the muscles start to get fuller, you pick up more reps of heavier weights and even though it is more of the same, on the other hand, it is also considered a variation of strength training.
Ok lets look at it from another angle. You have bodybuilding champions and world's strongest men. I don't think you would find bodybuilding champions amongst the strongest men, but I could be wrong.
A very good comparison. Strongest man doesn't necessarily have the best-looking body as compared to body-builders. Correct me on this, but it is easier to take a heavier man down rather than someone whose entire body is strength trained, from top to bottom. The legs function in the same manner as the upper body and it would require more energy to bring them down. Getting strong is about power-lifting, body-building is more focused on getting individual parts defined, even if they are not particularly powerful. Some people have a combination of both in their genes, and they accelerate faster than others in each of these departments.
I believe the lower reps and methods that target strength target different muscle strands than methods that aim for muscle size. Usually higher reps are used for building muscle size, while lower reps and/or methods like rest/pause are used to build strength.
Conditioning can be of different kinds. You can use methods like HIIT or circuit training depending on your goal.
I agree with everything suggested.
Toning falls under the umbrella of, as Arshad mentioned, doing more reps but with lower weights. Eventually, after repeating this exercise, the body becomes to get defined and the more of it is performed, the more it falls between the grey area of strength training and conditioning, as some parts of the body starts to get defined.
Initially, the conditioning is limited to doing what you can with minimal exercises but doing more of it and as time progresses and the muscles start to get fuller, you pick up more reps of heavier weights and even though it is more of the same, on the other hand, it is also considered a variation of strength training.
A very good comparison. Strongest man doesn't necessarily have the best-looking body as compared to body-builders. Correct me on this, but it is easier to take a heavier man down rather than someone whose entire body is strength trained, from top to bottom. The legs function in the same manner as the upper body and it would require more energy to bring them down. Getting strong is about power-lifting, body-building is more focused on getting individual parts defined, even if they are not particularly powerful. Some people have a combination of both in their genes, and they accelerate faster than others in each of these departments.
True strongest guys don't always have the best looking bodies. Strength training is power-lifting.