How hard do people really train in the gym? Novices self-selected loads below 60% of 1RM, and trained women chose about 42.3% of 1RM alone versus about 51.4% with a personal trainer
Oct 27
3 min read
Most people in a gym choose their own weights. Coaches often suspect those choices are too light to drive much progress, but suspicion is not data. A handful of studies have measured exactly what loads people select for themselves, then tested their one-repetition maximum to see how hard those self-selected sets really were.
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