Do You Make These 4 Common Training Mistakes?
A journalist writing a piece for an online mainstream fitness site recently approached me with this question:
“What do you think is the biggest mistake people make when working out? What is the best way to recover from the mistake and/or avoid it in the first place?”
Your typical mainstream fitness guy or girl isn’t my piece of pie, really.
I have zero interest in that crowd and RARELY accept non-athletes as clients.
But since the journalist wanted to hear my perspective as someone who trains athletes and I don’t like to turn interviews down, I showed her the green light.
So here’s what I told her…
Mistake #1: Not having clear goals
People say they want to “get back in shape” or “lose some weight”. Those are not goals, they’re wishes.
Goals are clear, definite, written objectives you can measure and keep track of over time. That’s how you know you’re moving in the right direction or if you need to adjust what you’re doing.
An example of a solid goal could be “I will lose 10 pounds of fat in the next 90 days” or “I will deadlift 400 pounds by the end of the year”.
Mistake #2: Not having a training program
A dude can spend 15 minutes “warming up” on the elliptical or treadmill – which doesn’t even prepare the body for strength training, by the way – go from barbell benching to incline dumbbell bench to dumbbell flyes, then hit the pec deck machine and round it all up with some cable crossovers because they heard that you need to “hit the muscle from all angles”.
After that they jog another 15-30 minutes on the treadmill, feeling out of breath and oblivious to the fact that their workout was far from productive.
There’s no rhyme or reason to what they are doing.
It’s all based on what they feel like doing on any given day and the false assumption that you need to completely trash a muscle to make it stronger and bigger.
That’s not smart training and definitely not how you get maximal results.
You need to have a written plan detailing the exact exercises, sets, reps and rest periods before you even enter the gym. This one minor adjustment alone will put you ahead of 80% of all gym-goers.
And what about the other two cardinal training mistakes I told the reporter chick?
We’ll get to them in another post in a day or two. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, scurry over to NextLevelHockeyTraining.com to make sure you avoid all the mistakes that rob people of their gainzzz.
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