Common Mistakes

The most common reason people stop progressing is that they keep starting over. Here is how long a programme actually needs.

Lifting more than you can control does not build more muscle. It builds a technique problem, and eventually an injury.

The point where adding weight every week stops working catches almost everyone. Here is what is actually going on and what to change.

It is the most common mistake in serious amateur training and the least likely to be diagnosed, partly because it looks like discipline.

True overtraining syndrome is rare, has no diagnostic test, and is diagnosed by excluding other things. Those other things are usually what you have.