736: 7 Things We Wish We Knew Before We Started Lifting
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary of episode:
(0:00) - Intro
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(00:44) Form over weight, my early squat example, drilling things over and over
(05:37) Genetics matter but don’t define you
(07:16) Enjoy being a beginner more
(09:56) Coach
(12;31) Bulk the right way / cut the right way
(14:09) Celebrate PR’s and always set new goals (Learn to love this)
(16:01) Don’t get enticed by trends
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcasts. I'm your host and coach |
| 0:06.6 | Josh here with. His co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house. Got a little tongue tied there, |
| 0:13.0 | but today we're going to be covering seven things we wish we knew before we started lifting. |
| 0:17.9 | I love making these episodes. We did one on YouTube way, way back because it's |
| 0:22.0 | really fun reflecting. And having been lifting about 13 plus years now, which is absolutely nuts, |
| 0:27.6 | I guess it's actually closer to 15 years, like since I've truly been lifting, I'd say lifting |
| 0:31.9 | properly about 13 years, but I've learned some things, being in the game, I've seen some things. |
| 0:36.5 | And I carefully curated my |
| 0:38.3 | top tips and I think you're really going to like the last one and you definitely want to make sure |
| 0:42.8 | not to miss it. So I'm going to jump into it with my first tip and that is form overweight. And I've said |
| 0:49.5 | this before too and I like I never liked this tip because I thought it was super obvious but I really thought on it |
| 0:55.6 | lately because I was watching like early videos of my early squats and my early deadlifts and now they like |
| 1:01.7 | make me cringe a little bit it's not to say they're horrible but it really is cool to see how much |
| 1:06.7 | I perfected my form to this date and when I started started, I lifted quite heavy. I was still squatting |
| 1:11.7 | like 405. I was deadlifting high fours into the fives, but it just was really sub-othamol when it |
| 1:18.2 | didn't need to be. And a lot of strength is actually like utilizing your biomechanics and your |
| 1:23.3 | setup as properly as possible. So really learning the basic things. I'll give you some examples. |
| 1:28.3 | Like a lot of people, any new person who will bench our gym is teen fitness. So they let teens get |
| 1:33.0 | free memberships, which is awesome for them. That's actually how I started, which is pretty cool. |
| 1:37.7 | But they'll start with their elbows flared up. And it actually puts a lot of stress and pressure |
| 1:42.6 | on your shoulder joint as well as your chest and cause injury. |
| 1:45.9 | And the issue is you'll learn that way and you'll keep doing that way for months and months. |
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