1872: Eight Benefits of Lifting With Light Weight
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin cover eight reasons why lifting light weights can accelerate your progress.
- One of the BEST things you can do to develop your muscles, and an amazing body, is to LIFT with lightweight! (2:15)
- Eight Benefits of Lifting with Light Weight.
- #1 – Better form. (7:30)
- #2 - Easier to connect to target muscles. (10:40)
- #3 - Lower injury risk. (15:42)
- #4 - The pump (higher reps). (19:03)
- #5 - Strength stamina. (22:41)
- #6 - Explosive training. (26:00)
- #7 - Slower reps value. (29:35)
- #8 - Easy on the joints. (32:14)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump, right in today's episode. |
| 0:19.0 | We're going to talk about light, weight training and why this may be for you |
| 0:24.0 | one of the most effective ways of training to build, shape your body and even increase your strength. |
| 0:29.0 | This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, PRX Performance. |
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| 1:26.0 | In fact, I actually wanted to double check. Make sure this is what we're actually doing. |
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