Progress Without Pain

It’s a misnomer that every gym session needs to be hard. People are hard on themselves in the gym when they skip a set, modify a workout or bail on their conditioning.

Some people even stay away from the gym all together because they believe every session needs to be excruciatingly hard.

I’ve spent a lot of time in the gym, and seen a lot of people succeed, and a lot of people fail at building a fitness habit.

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

The training plan that leaves you completely gassed is not the best for your sustainability in the gym. It’s a balancing act; train hard enough but not so hard that you quit.

Here’s a quote 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

@justinminergain