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Master Don Juan
I recently got to speak with a group of surgeons. The do surgeries to fix torn muscles and tendons, bad backs, and badly broken bones. They get patients with injuries from all different sports, but weightlighting is a common one.
Every doctor I met agrees on the following rule:
If you can't do it twenty times, don't do it.
That means if you can't do 20 reps at any exercise before hitting muscle failure, then you're doing something foolish and will just end up hurting yourself. That is the doctor's perspective.
Curiously, that advice is the exact opposite of how to get big. Getting big is what almost every guy wants, so that's how they train. Then they tend to hurt themselves and end up in surgery. A lot of them are fvcked up for life and will never be the same.
My point with this is not that I want to eliminate weightlifting from the world, but just that everyone doing it needs to realize the dangers involved and how easy it is to hurt yourself. You're doing something that some very knowledgeable medical professionals are explicitly saying not to do. Doing 5-rep sets to muscle failure would be like doubly ignoring the 20-rep limit. That's like if the speed limit to be safe were 50 and you were driving 150. And I've driven 150, but I knew it was dangerous and I was very careful. My point is to be careful.
Every doctor I met agrees on the following rule:
If you can't do it twenty times, don't do it.
That means if you can't do 20 reps at any exercise before hitting muscle failure, then you're doing something foolish and will just end up hurting yourself. That is the doctor's perspective.
Curiously, that advice is the exact opposite of how to get big. Getting big is what almost every guy wants, so that's how they train. Then they tend to hurt themselves and end up in surgery. A lot of them are fvcked up for life and will never be the same.
My point with this is not that I want to eliminate weightlifting from the world, but just that everyone doing it needs to realize the dangers involved and how easy it is to hurt yourself. You're doing something that some very knowledgeable medical professionals are explicitly saying not to do. Doing 5-rep sets to muscle failure would be like doubly ignoring the 20-rep limit. That's like if the speed limit to be safe were 50 and you were driving 150. And I've driven 150, but I knew it was dangerous and I was very careful. My point is to be careful.