Let us first define frequency training. Frequency training means when you train your body with a particular weight more number of times. I can give you an example here. Say you are lifting dumbbells and each of 3 Kg. Now frequency training would mean that you continue with 3 Kg of these dumbbells and keep increasing number of repetitions or number of sets in your exercise. Similarly, intensity/ weight training is exactly opposite to it. In weight training, you tend to keep your reps or workouts constant but you keep increasing weight. Say you are lifting 3 Kg dumbbell and doing 10 reps per session with 3 or 5 sessions. Intensity training would mean that you keep increasing your weight but your reps or sets remain constant.
Now question arises, which approach gives best results? Let us now see that what happens when we lift weights. Basically when we lift different weights during our workouts, we actually end up splitting and tearing muscle tissues. As a result, muscle tissues repair and grow themselves. Keeping this logic in mind, you can easily get the idea that if we lift heavy, we are going to split more tissues and muscles and when they repair and grow, we get huge muscles. On the other side, if we keep weight same and just increase the reps, we are not going to tear a larger muscle tissues to gain heavy results. Lifting heavy weights puts heavy stress on muscles and makes them split larger and in return, when they get repaired and grow, we see great results.
So if you are a bodybuilder and trying to get good results, always try to go for intensity exercise instead of focusing on frequency exercise. Another drawback for having frequency exercise would be that you lock your strength at a particular level and do not go beyond that. Even if you do, it’s very slow and eventually your result suffers.
