Many years ago, one of my friends came weight training with me, I felt good, I had been weight training to supplement my karate, 3 times per week, for years. My good friend was an academic, pen pusher (which I mean in the nicest way possible), he was a karate black belt, but had never pushed weights before. I said to him, ‘take it easy, if you haven’t pushed weights before, you could seriously injure yourself’. Boy, was I wrong, he pushed out as many reps as I did, with heavier weights! I was devastated, I couldn’t work it out, how could this happen, I was weak, useless and had been destroyed by someone who’s never lifted anything heavier than a pen!

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