#24: Strength Classes and How They're Holding You Back

Now, the biggest problem with bootcamp classes, strength training classes, YouTube workouts, Peloton workouts, things like this, even if they use weights, the biggest problem is that they're really prioritizing burning calories over building muscle.

Most of these classes and most of the structure and the design is for everyone to leave feeling like, oh, wow, I got an amazing workout.

And what those indicators are for a lot of people that are just getting started are being sweaty, is breathing hard, your heart pounding, you feel kind of weak, like you really had a workout, that Bambi legs feeling, you want to crawl out of there.

Because if everybody leaves feeling, oh, that that was kind of boring or that that really wasn't that hard or actually I feel kind of OK, I feel a little, you know, energized, like I can now do some cardio.

People aren't going to come back after they feel that way.

So the instructors naturally want to create workouts that feel difficult.

But the problem is that just feeling difficult isn't necessarily the same as producing results.

Can they be one in the same? Absolutely.

But they actually shouldn't.

You shouldn't be walking out of every single workout feeling like you're crawling out of there on your hands and knees.

If you are, then you're doing something wrong because your workouts shouldn't always feel like they're absolutely tearing you down.

You shouldn't go into a strength training workout feeling like your heart rate is constantly elevated.

Some people are like, I never really sweat when I weight train.

I don't really need to shower after I weight train because weight training doesn't always produce that, you know, really... high sweat feeling that is usually accompanied with cardio.

So feeling difficult isn't necessarily the same as producing results.

These workouts, I mean, think about it.