So, in the gym at work, there's a Gunnar Peterson motivational poster. One of the lines of wisdom is:

Don't cheat your rep counts.




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Is that a thing? People cheating their rep counts?

That just seems weird to me; it's like e-stat'ing to yourself.

read wrong. carry on

This post was edited by Orakpo on Dec 4 2015 10:39pm

i try to go for 10-12 reps but over all i shoot for failure every set.

dont count half reps or assists

You’ve worked with athletes for 20 years. What common traits do the great ones possess?

Besides being in a certain tax bracket, they all have a drive that I don’t see in everyone who crosses my threshold. They possess a simmering determination that drives them to finish whatever program I’ve given them. They don’t show up late. They don’t try to slide out early. They don’t cheat their rep counts, and they most definitely don’t hold back. There’s no economizing of energy — they leave it all in the gym. This doesn’t mean that every workout is a racing, fire-and-brimstone melee. It just means they give their best during every movement. Rarely do they regret having not completed a rep or beaten a time because they know they gave it 100%. Trying is lying; these people do. If I had to choose between giving my kids the skill sets of the great ones vs. the heart of the great ones, I’d choose the heart. Skills diminish over time, but heart can be applied to life — and it should be.



whats to explain?

Yeah it's serious. Lots of my friends who wanna be big but never will be tend to follow a workout where they're supposed to do like 10-12 reps let's say, yet stop at 8 and act like they didn't cheat them self but I was watching out of the corner of my eye of course. This goes for sets for some people as well.

but since its no competition, only hurts or benefits themselves

so let them do what they want lol

it's the same concept as lying about how much weight you actually lift

Or the old "I got 225 this summer" yet they can barely get 200 now.

word