Will get beat up, the longer you’re in the game, the more chance of injury you're going to have. When you are pushing close to the threshold and you're pushing close to maximum weight that you can lift, you're going to get hurt, you’re going to nicked up, you’re going to pull muscles, you’re going to get sore. I’m not saying that you’re going tear the muscles off your bones. All that it usually happens more with experience lifters, but it can happen with beginners. The point of the matter is the beginner is going to get sore and for a lot of beginners, you’re going to get sore in places you didn’t even know that you could get sore. That’s normal. That’s part of the sport, you will adapt to that.
To think that you’re going to come in and not ever pull a muscle or not ever get sore or never have a sore back or sore elbow or sore shoulder or whatever, it’s a huge misconception and it’s totally not true.
Very few get through unscathed.
The trick is to find the balance between your training, over training, over reaching and basically just keeping things simple and understand that there is a term that’s thrown around "training hard" and you got to train harder.
That’s all relative. Training hard is all relative to your own level of conditioning and what you are able to handle. Somebody who’s got a very poor and low level of conditioning is training hard, if they are training at their threshold level of conditioning. If they are training above and beyond their threshold of conditioning, they're training stupid.
Somebody who is better conditioned and more seasoned, who is training well under their threshold of training is probably not training hard enough. There is a balance and it’s just not the matter of straining, grunting, and turning blue in the face or having a bloody nose with snot all over your face.
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