The 1 x 100 Challenge: The Challenge To Gain 1 Pound of Strength 100 Times

How hard is it to gain one pound of strength? Most people would say it’s easy. If it is easy, why not make it a goal, and keep on repeating this goal over and over again at least 100 times? This is the challenge that is offered in this book to all who will accept it, to gain one pound of strength 100 times. I call it, “The 1 x 100 Challenge.”
The idea behind this challenge is to make the strength gaining process as simple and uncomplicated as possible. Strength gains are dependent upon your body’s ability to adapt to an increase in weight. Adaptations can be hard, or they can be easy. Most weight training equipment demands that your body adapt to five pound increases in weight. That may be easy for a while, but it eventually becomes hard. It is much easier for your body to adapt to a one pound increase in weight, so why not make it easy by adding a pound at a time to your lifts?
Many people kill themselves to grow stronger, only to fall short of what they had hoped to accomplish in spite of working hard to succeed. Often times, the problem is not a lack of motivation, nor is it a lack of hard work. The real culprit is an ineffective process. When goals are not matched with a clear process that is made up of small achievable steps, the formula for how to reach that goal can become very illusive. This does not have to be.
The 1 x 100 Challenge gives you a step by step strength training plan that helps you to achieve your goals for gaining strength. The steps include important details that help you start in the right physiological state and make it easy to progress little by little. Simplicity combined with precision and small steps are the keys to predictable strength gains that can be repeated over and over again. Applying these keys will insure that the strength training process doesn’t become harder than it needs to be.
In the 1 x 100 Challenge, you will be provided with detailed information that tells you:
How to obtain equipment that allows you to add weight in one pound increments.
How to train with the right level of effort that makes it as easy as possible to add pound after pound. (Adding on a pound is hard if your training is already too hard. Your training must be hard enough without being too hard).
How often to add on a pound so that you can keep on adding on more pounds.
Optimum strength training workouts that are designed to help you keep gaining a pound of strength on an ongoing basis.
The best exercises for maximizing your strength.
Whether you are focused on powerlifting, or general strength training, if your main goal is to keep getting stronger, the 1 x 100 challenge provides a systematic plan to help you get stronger, one pound at a time.