Travis Witthuhn

“How do I know if I should be training optimally or for fun?”

Here are my honest thoughts on optimal training or fun training
- [ ] Optimal training is of course what should be strived for particularly as a bodybuilder. Why? Because as a bodybuilder for the competition stage, your goal should be to implement exercises that bring up your weaknesses. That being said, do the best you can to make those exercises as fun as possible for you.

What happens if the optimal training isn’t fun enough to want to stick with it?

- [ ] Not having fun or enjoying your training very very often leads to at least 1 of the following problems but often a bit of a domino effect of a few of them:

- [ ] skipped sessions because you just don’t feel like going when you don’t want to train anymore.

- [ ] Lack of intensity because you’re just bored or trying too hard to make the training optimal and focusing only on the feeling of a muscle rather than pushing weights in an intense way that is genuinely just fun!

- [ ] Not following the program for enough time because now that you’re bored, you just want to keep making changes to the program to appeal to your entertainment

Realistically, the most optimal training program is going to be the one that BOTH addresses your weaknesses but also one that you find fun because that’s most often going to lead to you sticking to the program and putting forth the effort needed to actually make a change.

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