Performing repetitive resistance movements is like mastering a craft 🛠
You cannot effectively increase intensity and load placed on a targeted muscle if you’re constantly trying to learn how to do something.
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Most people have a mediocre perception of perfection. If it looks about the same as it does when the fit YouTube personality does them, then they’re doing it right 🤷🏻♂️ “Sweet, let’s move onto the next exercise after that medium-intensity set of trash.”
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YouTube/app workouts are awful because the yuppies making popular ones know that the secret is entertainment and not education. Even if their unqualified selves understood biomechanics and proper cue-ing they wouldn’t keep things simple because posting new random shit every day gets them more views and subscribers. 💸 Novelty sells, and they’re not accountable for your progress.
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Do yourself a favour. If you can’t afford to have a knowledgeable coach assess and teach you excellent execution:
1) Pick a several movements that feel good 👌🏽
2) Watch really detailed 5-10minute tutorials on each of them by reputable coaches 💻
3) Record yourself executing them and compare them to what they’ve said you should be doing 🎥
4) Think about the movements you’re doing every time. How stable do they feel? How smooth does it feel? Can you feel the strain in the correct muscles? Do you have control in th positions you’re in at the end of your range? 🤔
5) Start with an easy weight and gradually progress the weight used every time you have positive answers to the above... and do that for the next 8 weeks, tracking progress 📋
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🤷🏻♂️ Or keep doing random shit because it’s fun, upping the intensity mindlessly, potentially at the expense of your joints... but if you’re looking for entertainment whilst burning calories, might I suggest you watch TV / listen to a podcast on a treadmill 🏃🏻 or learn a sport or a martial art? 🤺
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