Every week our team at Okanagan Peak Performance Inc looks to help hundreds of people achieve their health and fitness goals. And getting stronger is at the top of the list of identified goals. An athlete wants to get stronger to increase his force production and be more powerful. With baseball for example, this translates to throwing harder and better hitting performnance. With the business professional having more strength allows for more distance off the tee box when they take clients out for a round of golf. And the new mom wants strength to be able to carry car seats, diaper bags, groceries, strollers as well as a new born. For all of these people more strength helps improve posture. It helps us protect us from injury. It helps us look better in the mirror after a shower or at the beach on the vacation. And this does wonders for our confidence. So whether we want to describe our strength goal as getting 'toned', 'jacked', 'swole' or simply to get stronger it is a goal shared by a number of people. But if you've been at the strength game for any period of time you know that it isn't easy to just put on 5 pounds of muscle. Consider for a second that a pound is 16 ounces. And picture what an eight ounce steak looks like. [caption id="attachment_5444" align="aligncenter" width="300"] An 8 ounce steak. You would need 10 of these for 5 lbs. To add 5 lbs of lean body mass, imagine 10 x 8 ounce steaks. Add this much protein to your arms, legs, chest and back and you have an idea of how much muscle protein we're talking about. As well, we should probably include one obvious condition. You can't increase your belt size as you add lean...
