It’s a system
Posted On May 16, 2025 By Joel Flint
Written by Jess Greenaway
The success of strength training
When it comes to success with your strength and conditioning training it would be easy to assume it’s about the programming. Easy, buy a program, train at your local gym or join a group fitness gym where it is planned for you.
However, there is a little more to it than that.
You could have the best program in the world, but if you don’t do a few key inputs you won’t get the full benefits of that program. These key areas being:
Consistency
Tracking your training
Your intensity for the days workout
How you fuel your body
Recovery
This article will look at four areas of your training that are probably not talked about often enough, but play an important role in your training success.
Train with purpose
What intensity are you bringing to your training? Do you just show up and move through the motions to tick ‘going to the gym’ off your list?
The intensity you bring to your sessions matters. It’s not about going full speed 100% every session, that’s not sustainable. But if we are showing up to a strength training session, lifting weights at an effort of 4 or 5 out of 10 week in week out we may struggle to see significant strength gains.
Intensity drives adaptions. We need to be sufficiently challenging the body. In our group training we do this through progressive overload. And if you are using our training app, recording your strength session each time, this will guide you for your intensity.
Are you tracking?
Tracking our progress helps to identify what’s working or not working. It is feedback on whether your strength is increasing. It guides us in our weekly training and for our testing weeks towards new PBs. It reduces the risk of injury if we know what we lifted last week and then can build on that, as opposed to guessing each session.
You can track your training in a notebook or a training app. Using a training app takes away the burden of remembering what you did in your last session and you can easily refer or search your lifts/training. It’s about measuring what matters so we know where our improvements can be made.
Fuelling our bodies
Have you ever heard someone say:
“Abs are made in the kitchen” or
“You can’t out train a poor diet”
Well there is some merit in these. It is suggested that your nutrition accounts for 70-80% of your strength and fitness gains.
What you put into your body pre and post training impacts how your body performs and how it recovers and repairs afterwards.
For example if we look at protein. During a strength session we are creating micro tears in our muscles. Our body then needs to work to repair and strengthen these muscles, as this is how we build our strength. To repair our muscles effectively and to support our body the most we need to replenish our protein stores.
Fuelling your training effectively is whole blog post in itself. In this article I wanted to mention it is an area to put on your radar to think about. If you would like to read more about nutrition, you can take a look at the following articles on our blog: