Avoid Overtraining

If you feel burnt out, weak, and/or sore, you are probably overtraining. Not providing your muscles with enough rest will often prevent you from making improvements. Training the wrong muscle groups on consecutive days will also counteract your good results. Doing too many sets and exercises per muscle group will also cause overtraining.

Remember that weightlifting, especially in an intense program, produces what's called "tissue microtrauma," those tiny tears in the muscles that temporarily decrease strength and cause varying degrees of muscle soreness. It is absolutely necessary to provide ample rest time between successive training sessions. Muscles generally require about 48 hours for the resting and rebuilding process before you work them again.

Another example of overtraining is doing duplicating movements of several similar exercises for one specific muscle group. It makes no sense to do three sets of Bench Press with a barbell and then do three sets of Bench Press with dumbbells or Push-ups. Each of these exercises requires exactly the same movement and works the same specific muscle. Instead, it would make much more sense to do bench press for overall middle chest (either barbell, dumbbell, or machine); do incline bench press for upper chest; and do dips for lower-outer chest, for example.

Real winners

A real winner is someone who can accept defeat graciously. A real winner does not plan to lose or aim to lose, and yet when the loss comes a real winner does not waste time on anger, complaints or blame.

A real winner finds value and learning even in defeat, then goes on to win a victory which outshines all the setbacks along the way. You can recognize a real winner by the way he acts when things don't go his way.

You can spot a real winner by her positive, winning attitude even in the midst of defeat. Even cowards can look strong when things are going in their favor. True winners show their strength regardless of the circumstances.

Those who are willing to accept defeat when it comes in spite of their best efforts, are the ones who ultimately can claim true victory.

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