Progress Without Pain

It’s a misnomer that all workouts need to be hard. And people are hard on themselves in the gym when they skip a set, or bail on their finisher.

Maybe some even stay away from the gym all together, because they think that it needs to be excruciatingly hard each and every session.

As someone who’s spent a lot of time in the gym, it just isn’t true.

You’ll need to push it and have some hard workouts, but more than that, you just need to actually keep working out.

And the plan that leaves you completely depleted, might not be the best for your sustainability in the gym.

Here’s a quote I came across this weekend from Mel Siff, author of numerous strength training books, the most famous being Supertraining.

“To me, the sign of a really excellent routine is one which places great demands on the athlete, yet produces progressive long-term improvement without soreness, injury or the athlete ever feeling thoroughly depleted. Any fool can create a program that is so demanding that it would virtually kill the toughest marine or hardiest of elite athletes, but not any fool can create a tough program that produces progress without unnecessary pain.” - Mel Siff

Justin Miner

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