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There is such a thing as over doing it. We call it over training.

It’s when you decide to exercise one body part excessively with the mind-frame of ‘more is better’.

I’m here to tell you there is a limit. There is a critical mass when the muscle you’re training is no longer benefitting from your exercise. Instead the muscle is being weakened and causing micro-trauma. The muscle is no longer getting bigger and stronger. The muscle is getting weaker and smaller.

Yes, I’m talking to you.

Yeah, the one who thought that doing ‘chest’ today meant doing EVERYTHING you could with your chest. And doing it in all one sitting.

Yeah, the one who thought after you did 3 sets of flat bench on the smith machine, then 3 more sets of incline, and then 3 sets of the pec deck was showing off your prowess and proving just how ‘big’ you really are.

Yep, the same person who after all those exercises thought doing the Hammer Strength Iso-Bench Machine was going to give you that ‘extra’ push to growing your chest that much larger. Who cares that when you did the exercises you were barely using HALF the range of motion of the exercise.

MORE, MORE, MORE.

Where did we learn this? Who did we learn this from? I’ve been around the weight room for most of my life, and I still can’t think of one instance where it was plausible and effective to do 6 or more exercises for one body part in one day over a 4 hr period.

And you wonder why you’re not getting stronger? Bigger?

Maybe you should do more? Add another exercise? Yeah.. that’ll do it.

Carpe Diem