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The 14 Biggest Weight Training Mistakes

The science around strength training has changed in the last decade. You’re older, stronger, and hopefully, smarter now. Don’t make the same mistakes you made in your high school weight room.

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Still using those outdated exercises?
Still using those outdated exercises? Photo: Phil Stanziola

The bad news? There are a lot of exercises you grew up doing that are dead wrong for building power. If you want to get stronger faster, you’ll need to embrace the new science. The good news? The fixes for those old mistakes are fairly simple. We enrolled two of the country’s leading fitness experts, Rob Shaul of Mountain Athlete in Jackson Hole and Ben Bergeron of CrossFit New England, to get you back on track.

Click on the links below to find out what you’re doing wrong.

Mistake #14
Mistake #13
Mistake #12
Mistake #11
Mistake #10
Mistake #9
Mistake #8
Mistake #7
Mistake #6
Mistake #5
Mistake #4
Mistake #3
Mistake #2
Mistake #1

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