What is going on, everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all, happy

podcast. As always, I'm your coach and host, Josh, here with his co-host and co-coach, KG, and I'm in the

house. And we're coming at you with five expert workout strategies, every lifter ought to know,

beginner and advanced. So we took some time and, you know, we said, listen, like, we think we got a lot of people listening this podcast that know what's going on, you know, a ton of personal trainers, coaches, you know, athletes, as well as a lot of people that are just starting out. So, you know, we really work hard to make sure that no matter where you are in your journey that this is going to be a very beneficial podcast for you because at the end of the day, you know, we want to help you become fitter, healthier, and happier in every which way. And with these five workout tips, you're going to be blown away, but why waste time talking about how great they are? Let's just jump right into them. And number one is just to make sure you are utilizing adequate rest time and

you're probably like how is this advanced this is easy but bear with me so a huge mistake i see

people doing especially new people in the gym is they're blowing through that workout you know sometimes

i'll be squatting and i'll be with someone who's new and they'll go through three or four movements

before i've even finished my squats and they're go through three or four movements before I've even

finished my squats. And they're like, why do you take so much rest? Like you need to work harder, Josh, like go faster with it. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. So it's a huge misconception to think it's better just to run through a workout faster, you know, to keep your heart rate, whatever, which way you want to consider it. Our goal with working out is to achieve hypertrophy, right?

To achieve that challenge of lifting a weight, you know, in fatiguing a muscle to help it grow

and build to change your composition as well as our strength.

We're not able to do that at a full capacity if we're rushing through it.

Great example.

We were rock climbing just the other day. I've been encouraged from people that are way better than me that when I'm

climbing that if I fail, even if I fail early, to take a little bit of time, let myself reset

before trying again. And you know, you can absolutely understand why that is. You know, if I told you

climb up a cliff and if not, you'd fall to your demise you know if you could you'd want to be as rested as you could right we know we have a diminished

capacity when we don't have that ability to be fully rested so that's why with working out

the easiest rule of thumb i like to give clients is till your heart rate comes down so if i finish

a set of let's go kyle those and i shouldn't jump into it at all right i should So if I finish a set of, let's go, Kyle,

those, and I shouldn't jump into it at all, right?

I should be able to maintain a position of a conversation. And that's generally a good rule of thumb that your heart rate is down. And you wanna just give your muscles ability and time to recover, right? If I'm benching, you know, whatever I'm benching, maybe I can hit 315 for eight reps on a really good day.

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