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Are You Weight Training Too Often or Not Enough?
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If you have yet to incorporate weight training into your weekly workout routine, now’s the time to start. Despite what you might think, weight training is not exclusively for the guys you see at the gym that look they could be contestants in a Hulk look-alike contest. Giving the body a boost in both athletic pursuits and everyday tasks, the benefits of the weighted workout are immense – more on this below. And as long as you train smartly, there really are no downsides.
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Type “bench press fail” into your search engine of choice and you won’t have to scroll down too far before you come across a video of some guy getting squashed after trying to lift a weight that’s too heavy.
Understanding why you don’t want to train in a way that makes you the accidental star of a viral comedy clip is pretty easy. Knowing how to sidestep that pitfall while still getting great results, on the other hand, is a bit more complicated.