So you wanna lift heavier weights? Welcome to the club. We have jackets. And more importantly, knowledgeable brofessors. They, our brofessors that is, split their time between lifting heavy objects and studying the Swoley Book of Gainz. 

In this article, one such brofessor will pass along the ancient wisdoms of How To Master Lifting Heavier to help you increase strength, build more lean muscle mass, and of course look like one seriously badass buck. 

In the following sections I will offer techniques to lift heavier, ranging from in-the-moment actions to incorporate in your next training session to more technical tips. There will also be one or two contrarian sections that might just challenge your current methodologies for training (but I’m not telling you which ones, because it’s a secret and spoilers suck). 

1. Progressively overload on practice — 10,000 hours 
2. Optimizing Your Warm-Up: yes, you need to warm up. Sorry…bruh.
3. Schedule training frequency according to your specific goals
4. Rest: this common mistake is killing your gainz
5. Create tension — functioning as a “unit”
6. Train “accessory” muscles (or miss out)
7. Fuel smart — supp smarter