18 Reasons to Look Forward to Your Next Workout

In honor of Discover Strength’s 18-year anniversary, here are 18 reasons to look forward to your next (DS) workout.

1. Investment in long-term health-protective benefits. No single activity (or pharmaceutical) stimulates more profound health-protective benefits than strength training. 

2. However you feel going into a workout, you always feel better afterward (improved mood, reduced anxiety, and less joint pain).

3. Negative Only Chin-ups. 

4. We read a new scientific research study on Monday (and every Monday) and are excited to integrate it into your workout. 

5. We all need accountability, encouragement, and feedback. 

6. It’s over in 30 minutes (maybe 45).  Less but better is your mantra. 

7. Training to muscle failure burns twice as many calories following the workout when compared to the same workout that stops short of muscle failure. 

8. Leg Press.

9. Your workout literally makes you smarter.  Strength training enhances cognitive function and reverses cognitive decline. 

10. We can add significant lean muscle tissue across the lifespan.  40, 60, or 90 years of age; the research is clear: we can add significant lean muscle tissue. 

11. Seeing progression.  Fighting for a one-rep improvement on Leg Extension. 

12. A 30-second negative after muscle failure on Pullover.

13. Muscle strength is inversely correlated to all-cause mortality. 

14. A Discover Strength workout is smart.  Every decision is purposeful, intentional, and evidence based.  And, of course, your workout should be as smart as you are. 

15. Research indicates that a strength training workout with a qualified fitness professional produces statistically significantly better results than strength training alone. 

16. The thrill of training on a perfectly crafted machine.  A machine that represents the Rolls Royce of exercise equipment.

17. On a regular basis, we need to do something that challenges us; that forces us to go to the well; that compels us to confront and know thyself. 

18. Because your exercise physiologist is waiting for you…. And they are looking forward to your workout even more than you are.