2900: 6 Mistakes Women Make When They Start Lifting

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Previously titled “2900” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 5, 2026

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Doug Egge 0:00

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Phil Vella 0:13

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Phil Vella 2:06

We trained people for over two decades and our average client was a woman. That was most people that hired us to train them. And there's something that we noticed, there's common mistakes that women often make when they start lifting. Today, we talked about the six most common ones. If you're falling for these, if you're doing these mistakes, you're not gonna get great results. In fact, oftentimes you get no results. And these are the reasons why. Let's get to it.

Adam Schafer 2:31

You know, we're pulling from our experience of training clients, which honestly we haven't done in a long time. Do you think that these still are the top six?

Phil Vella 2:40

I do because we have trainers now here at Mind Pump that train clients. And these are still common mistakes and conversations. And then the questions that we get often. Now, we do have a little bit of a self-selection bias because people who listen to the show will ask us questions, but even those that listen to the show, uh, end up, uh, performing some of these mistakes. So there's still super common.

Justin Andrews 3:02

Yeah. That's why too. I like to talk to like my family and friends and see, get a pulse too about like what their general thoughts are around training. But yeah, a lot of these always show up, man. That's it.

Adam Schafer 3:12

Yeah, I mean, because I look at them and I think that they are still common. That's why I asked the question. I'm not sure if there's something that we're missing that's new or different. But I do think they've gotten significantly better.

Phil Vella 3:26

There's more awareness. More education's out there. I would say there's more awareness around strength training. So we're not selling strength training here. I think we don't need to do that as much. It used to be the case where, I mean, gosh, 20 years ago or more, When I started training, it was even longer than that. I had to sell strength training. Like, no, no, you need to lift weights. We don't need to do that as much. So a lot of people start strength training, especially women now. but then they make mistakes on that path and end up getting little to no results from the strength training they're performing.