Chapter 1342
Chapter 1342
Weight training could help someone significantly improve their muscle strength and endurance. Of course, muscle strength would not improve in just one session. The best way to increase muscle strength and build up muscles is to exercise repeatedly and consistently.
However, simple repetition would not work. There would come a time when the weight would feel easy and comfortable to lift. Once someone started to lift that weight in twelve to fifteen reps easily, they had to increase the weight.
Of course, the reps they could do would drop to around six to ten reps once the weight was adjusted. Over time, they would get used to it and be able to easily lift the adjusted weight for twelve to fifteen reps again. This was a sign that they could already lift a heavier weight.
It was not just that. Their ability to lift heavier weights proved that their muscles had recovered from the high-intensity weight training and grown stronger. Of course, breaks and rest were indispensable between training to allow the muscles to heal naturally.
However, in Athenae, there was no concept of muscle recovery. The concept that worked here was the concept of stat increase. And because of that, the people in Athenae could grow their muscles without any breaks.
Minhyuk was fully aware that these soldiers had already steadily increased their stats the more they swung their swords, stabbed their spears, and shot their arrows. In fact, they had also noticed that the training was starting to feel a bit easier. Whenever they began to feel comfortable and at ease, five kilograms of weight would be added to their sandbags.
They continued to swing their weapons. They had now swung their weapons more than seventy thousand times in a row. They no longer knew how many days they had spent swinging their weapons. Of course, it was not as if they did not have any rest at all. Minhyuk had given them enough time to eat and even increased their meals by more than 1.5 times their usual.
Ares’ Elite Troops did not know that their stats were increasing rapidly because the weight they had to carry kept increasing, but Minhyuk knew. How did he know?
[You have gained 1 STR.]
[You have gained 1 AGI.]