If I had to choose the number one reason why people aren’t making the progress they should be in their workout routine, it would be that they’re lifting more weight than they can handle. There has never been one day in my entire life when at the gym I did not see multiple—even the majority—of those present making this costly mistake.
People are actually concerned about what complete strangers at the gym think of them! Think about that.
Lifting more than we can handle sacrifices the number one thing that WILL build the kind of body people want: proper form. Many people seem to accept this intellectually, but in practice they will still overload the weight regardless.
This problem is made worse by YouTube videos made by fakers and schysters who are using movie prop weights and trying to pass them off as real. Many viewers do not realize the weights are fake and these types of videos produce negative feelings in some who don’t realize it’s all an act to get “likes.” How sad those individuals are whose “life”, such as it is, exists only while online, and who depend on fakery and electronic “likes” for personal validation.
Learning proper form is as easy as going on YouTube. However the majority of fitness how-to instruction on YT ranges anywhere from merely adequate to absurdly bad. Two of the very best instructors, both of whom have a gift for making things clear, are Jeff Cavaliere and Mike Thurston.
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