Big Fat Loss Mistake

While I was at the gym today, I saw a guy bench pressing (it is Monday, after all) with his feet on the bench. Do not do this. This is just asking for an injury. What would happen if he lost his balance? Since his feet weren't on the floor, the bar could have just landed right on him. Don't do it.

No, that wasn't the big fat loss mistake. A huge mistake people make when training for fat loss (or even strength or muscle gain) is doing the same thing over and over again. We have all seen people who have been coming to the gym for months or even years and they do the same thing every single time. Same exercises. Same weight. Same reps. Heck, some of you may be doing this right now.

You should notice something else, too: they LOOK the same as they did when they first started. Their body isn't changing.

That is a huge mistake. If you do the same thing over and over again, you're no longer forcing your body to change. It has no reason to. Every time you do the same workout with the same weight and reps, you get no results. Your body is used to that stimulus.

To combat this, all you have to do is increase your performance. So the next time you repeat a workout, do more reps with the same weight, or use more weight, or do the same work but in less time. By doing something different, your body will have to respond by getting stronger, or burning fat, or rebuilding muscle.

Never do the same thing twice.