How to Push Yourself Farther while Exercising

Some people don't exercise properly while exercising. They think that lifting really heavy weights will increase their muscle, but in fact all it does is tire them out. By following these steps you may notice results within the first day.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Strong Willpower -- If you don't want to push yourself further or if you procrastinate a lot, you won't get very far.
• Dumbbell weights that you can lift a minimum of ten times.

1. Warmup!
   
   Get your blood flowing and your muscles working so you don't hurt yourself. Do a one set of pushups and lift your dumbbells a few times.
2. Start Exercising!
   
   Remember to stay hydrated by drinking a little room temperature water every now and then.
   
   Start lifting your weights as you normally would until your arms feel tired and you feel like you want to set them down. Rather than set your dumbbells down and not accomplish anything, hold your weights by your sides for a few seconds or a minute or two and start lifting your weights again.
   
   Repeat this step repeatedly. My minimum for one arm with 30 pounds was to curl it 10 times, but by waiting and then continuing I kept on until I lifted it 85 times.
   
   NOTE: If your fingers hurt, it's OK to set your weights down and let your fingers rest for a few minutes because you will still get the same results because your pushing yourself further than the people who just tire themselves out and don't have strong willpower.
3. After you've reached 50 it's ok to stop. Don't do it more than 100 times.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep a strong willpower and know that you want to get stronger
• Stay hydrated
• If you've reached 50 and your minimum was 10 and you felt tired, then it's ok to stop.
• Don't lift more than 100 times
• STOP exercising if you start pushing your stomach out to lift the weights because you can give yourself a hernia doing this.
• Consult your doctor before doing any exercises.
• Do not do this if you have a weak heart
• Do not do this if pushing yourself could end up causing you to hurt yourself
• DON"T do this with a benchpress because you will drop your weights on yourself and hurt yourself