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You don’t need to do MORE at the gym You need to do BETTER Do you feel the secret to achieving that strong, lean healthy body is doing more? More hours at the gym, more cardio, more sets, more reps, more effort…. Yesterday one of my clients told me that she added “a few more exercises and sets” after her planned workout. I asked why and her response was “I felt I could do more”. Then we went through the prescribed exercises and quickly found that the exercise form and effort was something she could improve on. By focusing on doing better quality reps she quickly realized that once she did the exercises as prescribed there was nothing left in her “energy tank”. What does quality mean when it comes to performing an exercise? Are you are feeling working muscle doing the work? Are you keeping continuous tension in the muscle? Are you miminizing help from other muscle groups? Are you controlling the movement? Slower tempo (2-3 seconds) on eccentric (moving with resistance) and keeping faster yet engaged (1-2 seconds) on concentric (moving against resistance).? Are you increasing effort till you can not continue with the current technique? The next time you’re at the gym really focus on every rep of each of the exercises you’re doing, and let me know if you noticed anything different.