6 Things You Shouldn’t Be Doing Inside or Outside of the Gym

5. Not having a program or plan

• get strong?
• lose fat?
• build muscle?
• training for a marathon?

What is it that you want to do exactly? Determine your goals ahead of time and give yourself a timeline to accomplish them. You can’t do everything at once, so manage your expectations. None of that build-30-pounds-of-muscle-in-12 weeks, or get-a-3x-bodyweight-deadlift-in-one-training-cycle.

Find out how much you can realistically accomplish within your given timeframe based on studies and research, not what random people tell you.