You want to become stronger and you want your muscles to become larger. You are doing strength training on a regular basis but you just don’t see any improvement. What are you doing wrong? If you aren’t increasing the amount of weight that you are lifting then your muscles won’t become bigger or stronger. This is called Progressive resistance strength training.

When you begin strength training or weight lifting, you start out with a weight that you can do a reasonable amount of repetitions in a set. Repetitions are the number of times that you do an exercise and a set is a group of repetitions. Increasing the number of sets at a particular weight will not give the muscles enough resistance to grow bigger. You must increase the weight.

Of course before you increase that weight make sure that you can do at least 2 sets of 10 repetitions before proceeding on to the higher weight. Only increase the weight by five pounds so you will be able to do at least 8 to 10 repetitions. Of course at some point you will max out, but that will take some time.