Getting burnt out and injured terminates many earnest attempts to get into shape.
Moreover, the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back (an injury that’d put you out of action for a month in your 20s could potentially see you sidelined for a year or more in your 40s, for example).
Speaking of bouncing back, even if you are both extremely experienced and spectacularly pigheaded, this is invariably a long, slow, and painful process with no guarantee that you will reclaim what you lost.
So, I think it is fair to say the smartest thing to do is avoid getting injured in the first place.
No easy thing, when the internet is awash with drugged-up dimfluencers posting videos of themselves pushing things to the absolute limit.
Oh sure, they might *say* you need to train safely, but they’re demonstrating the opposite and, worse, poisoning the well by implying the pants-on-head stupid stuff they’re doing for views, likes, and comments is all fine and dandy.
Then there are the spineless PTs who sell people what they want rather than what they need.
Hence, when a client asks to be made sore (which, speaking from experience, is a common request), they’ll roll out the supersets, drop sets, ultra-slow negatives, and forced reps – heedless or uncaring of the risks involved in this type of training.
But, hey, whatever makes the sale, right?
Look, I know mine is not an exciting message.
Training sustainably is, by definition, repetitive and requires tremendous self-control on those days when you feel like rampaging about the gym like Godzilla on Charlie.
But it is the only way to get and, critically, keep your results for more than five minutes.
Unsurprising then, that sustainability was built into the programmes favoured by the men who were training when Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the internet, without which we would not have the double-edged sword of social media) was but a twinkle in his father’s eye.
After all, when you are not fishing for online clout, there’s no incentive to train in any way other than that which adds genuine value to your life.
Two such programmes are detailed in September’s issue of The Phil Tyreman Letter (one for those who are new, and one for those who are longer in the tooth).
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