When Workout Goals Suck!!

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Redefine your true potential - http://athleanx.com/x/all-new-you Subscribe to this channel here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW It is common for people to set workout and strength goals before ever setting foot in a gym. You have probably heard many of them along the way. You should be able to bench press one and a half times your bodyweight. You should be able to squat twice your bodyweight. A good deadlift is one in which you can lift two and a half times your bodyweight. You know what? I hate these benchmarks. I’m not saying that these are not decent measurements of an individuals relative strength to get an idea of where they stand among their peers, but there is much to dislike about these as well. Mostly, the notion that many people use these numbers as the guiding light of what they’re shooting for when they train. The problem occurs when the goals are actually reached. Then what? Normally, you have two choices. You can either quickly establish new goals and never settle, realizing that you are only as good as your last lift, or you can get comfortable with your accomplishments and become complacent. The latter is the direction that many of us find ourselves and we don’t recognize it until we’ve been lifting the same weight for many months or even years and our progress has stalled. This is where the strength benchmarks go from being a good baseline indicator of your progress to the death of your future progress. In order to realize your true potential you mus

Published 2017-05-05 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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