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That’s right...A workout can be as easy or as challenging as YOU make it. You can half-ass almost any workout and breeze through it OR you can make any workout challenging by improving your technique, slowing down your reps, adding pauses, or 1/2 reps. One will bring results. One will not.

Ok so what does half-assing your workouts mean?

- Going through the motions

- No thought to what you are actually doing

- No focus on movement

- Fast reps

- Sloppy technique

- Using less weight because it’s easier.

So what to do to make your workouts more effective?

- Bring intensity through weight: push yourself to lift as much weight as you can with great form.

- Focus on your technique

- Is your core braced?

What is your back doing?

Are you getting full range of motion?

What are your shoulders doing?

- Slow down: - Slow down your reps. If you are blowing through them:

1. Your weight is too light

2. Momentum is driving the movement instead of the muscles driving the movement.

➡️Stay consistent and track your progress in the gym just like you would do with your nutrition.

➡️Get uncomfortable. No one ever made any changes staying inside their comfort zones. Be smart, but get uncomfortable.

➡️Adding pauses, half reps, slow eccentric, is another way to up the challenge of any exercise.