My personal trainer told me that I'll need to do weight training to build strength. How can Exerstriding build strength?
The commonly accepted belief is that you need to “overload” muscles in order to build strength. This involves lifting heavy weights or working against levels of resistance that actually break down the muscles and result in the body rebuilding and increasing muscle mass in order to do the increasing work that is being required of the muscle. These muscle “overload” workouts use heavy weights or high levels of resistance and usually involve 10 to 25 repetitions. And they do build strength.
Exerstriding does not “overload “ the muscles. Instead it simply puts every major muscle to work against relatively low levels of resistance for literally thousands of repetitions. There is no argument among experts that Exerstriding can build muscle endurance. What the experts will eventually discover is that muscles that work against light resistance for thousands of repetitions will also increase in strength although they will not significantly increase in mass. Unless you are an athlete whose activities require exceptional levels of strength, the type of “functional strength” and muscle endurance that Exerstriding builds are actually preferable.


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