Put Some Actual Weight on the Bar
Put Some Actual Weight on the Bar Share Photo: Leszek Glasner, Shutterstock The point of lifting weights is to challenge your body, such that your body rises to the challenge by building muscle. The more you lift, the stronger you get. And yet, too many people get talked out of ever putting some fucking weight on the bar. This pervasive message — that light weights are good enough and heavy weights aren’t that important — seems friendly at first but sets people up to fail. Internalizing this message can take the form of perfecting your technique until you feel like you’ve “earned”...