Avoid Fatal Fitness Mistakes :

Twenty years ago I was very influenced by the bodybuilders and training systems of the day. Hitting the weights five or six times a week, splitting upper and lower body workouts and working out twice a day was seen as normal.

Every set was taken to positive failure, with three or more forced reps on top of that, and if that wasn't enough, I would throw in a few negative reps to top it off. This type of training would leave me totally exhausted and render me sore for days after every session.

The constant battering to my body lowered my immune system and I would always be sick or injured. I would take time off training and then go back to it again, all the time gaining nothing in size or strength.

Can you imagine years and years of hard work like this all for nothing? The sad reality is that I still see it going on around me now. The cold hard facts are that over 80 percent of the regular trainees in your gym are overtraining. That's right -- 80 percent! Disturbing, isn't it? Traditional training techniques like volume training are ineffective and downright dangerous, having been passed down from the previous training generations and unquestioningly followed at all costs.

The only people making any progress on these systems are the so-called "bodybuilding stars" who have superb genetics (about 2 percent of the general population) and are taking massive amounts of steroids (very expensive and dangerous).

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So please don't fall into the same overtraining trap as many others have. If you haven't made any gains for a long time now and maybe suffer from one or more of the symptoms found below, stop! Stop wasting your time and effort for nothing.