2870: 6 Signs You're Not Training Hard Enough (And How to Fix It)
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What are the six signs you're not training hard enough?
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When it comes to your workouts, there are a lot of factors that play a role in whether or not you progress. But possibly one makes the biggest impact. Intensity, how hard you work out. In fact, the data proves this. Of all the factors, intensity is probably the most important. So we're going to talk about are the signs that you're not working out hard enough. How do you know? How do you know if you're working out hard enough to make good progress? That's what we're going to cover today.
This is a good conversation for us to have because we tend to communicate the other side more often. That's right. A lot more often. Yeah, I think that we recognize that a large portion or majority of our audience are probably into fitness or have been into fitness for a long time, even a lot of fitness fanatics that listen to the podcast. And so most of the content has been centered around the over-application of intensity and volume. Just overdoing it. Yeah, overdoing it, right? Which we would agree that we all probably fall in the category and can totally relate. Although when I think back to personal training clients one-on-one, I did deal with this maybe 50% of the time. Maybe half the time, I had the other side, which was my clients not training hard enough, and I'd have to communicate this.
And there are several different reasons or ways that would lead me to believe so. But it was more common when I think about training clients. When I think about this podcast, It was less common. And so I felt like that's what we've always kind of committed to the other side.
I'll never forget. I've told this story before, but it was such a memorable moment for me as a trainer. I had a client that I was training, just everyday, kind of regular person, no experience with strength training, not really athletic background, just a normal woman. She was in her 40s. I was a young trainer. And it was one of our first workouts ever. And we went to a rope press down. We're going to do triceps. And I remember we're doing the triceps. So it's a very basic exercise. Just pressing it down, bring it up, pressing it down, bring it up. And she suddenly lets go of the rope. The weight stack slams. And she goes, ow, ow. And I'm, you know, a young trainer, so I'm like, oh my God, did I hurt somebody?
With chair muscle? Yeah, it's like, oh, I know that's a big, that's a huge fear for a trainer is that you hurt your client. Yeah, you don't want to hurt your client. You know, but, you know, tricep press down, like hurting yourself on a press down is pretty darn difficult.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the six signs you're not training hard enough?
0:00–0:06
2
Why is intensity considered the most important factor for progress?
0:06–0:07
3
What does it mean if your workout isn't strenuous?
0:07–0:23
4
What are the implications of using the same weight for years?
0:23–0:32
5
How can you tell if you left enough in the tank after a workout?
0:32–0:36
6
What should you do if you feel nothing the days after your workout?
0:36–0:43
7
How can you overcome the aversion to hard workouts?
0:43–0:59
8
Who are the two groups most likely to undertrain?
0:59–23:57
Speakers
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