The Top 5 Training Mistakes Killing Your Gains [and What to Do Instead]

Choose Hard

Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If you’re hitting the gym consistently but not seeing the progress you want, you might be making one (or more) of these common training mistakes. In this episode of The Choose Hard Podcast, Cody McBroom breaks down the five biggest training mistakes beginner to intermediate lifters make—and how to fix them to start seeing real results. Here’s what you’ll learn: 📌 How to properly gauge and maximize effort for better muscle growth📌 Why exercise order matters more than you think📌 How to match your training volume to your experience level for sustainable gains📌 Why program hopping is killing your progress—and what to do instead📌 The truth about group fitness and why it may not be ideal for your goals Don’t waste your time spinning your wheels in the gym. Tune in to this episode and start training smarter today! — YOU CAN NOW WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE, TO SEE CODY’S SLIDE DECKS & VISUAL COACHING, AT THE CHOOSE HARD YOUTUBE PLAYLIST! — 🚀1-ON-1 COACHING: ⁠https://www.tailored-coaching.com/apply-podcast ⁠ ➡️ Jocko Fuel (Use Discount Code CHOOSEHARD10 for 10% Off Your Order) 👥 TAILORED COACHING COLLECTIVE (OUR COMMUNITY): ⁠http://www.tailored-coaching.com/tailored-collective⁠ 📲 TRY MY TRAINING APP FOR FREE: ⁠http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com/⁠ 🛒 GRAB YOUR CHOOSE HARD TRUCKER HAT & DAILY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL: www.tailoredcoachingmethod.shop — 🎙️LISTEN TO OUR CLIENT’S TELL THEIR TRANSFORMATION STORIES, ON THE TAILORED TRANSFORMATIONS PODCAST: - SPOTIFY: ⁠https://bit.ly/tlrd-transformations-spotify⁠ - APPLE PODCASTS:⁠https://apple.co/3GPlDxG⁠ — GET MORE FREE CONTENT AT THE LINKS BELOW: 📖 FREE ARTICLES: ⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/blog⁠ 💾 FREE GUIDES: ⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/guides⁠ IG -⁠https://www.instagram.com/codymcbroom⁠ YOUTUBE -⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/codymcbroom1⁠ INQUIRIES – ⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	In today's podcast, I am going to be covering the five most common training mistakes made in the gym by beginner and intermediate lifters.
0:08.0	If you are making any one of these mistakes, it is without a doubt preventing you and holding you back from achieving your best physique.
0:18.6	The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.
0:22.6	You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy.
0:26.4	Everything you want in life begins with a hard path.
0:31.1	Welcome to the Choose Hard Podcast.
0:34.3	I'm your host, Cody McBroom.
0:35.7	I am an online trainer and sports nutritionist as well as a father, husband, and entrepreneur,
0:40.6	and the founder and CEO of tailored coaching method.
0:44.4	Today I'm going to be touching on the five most common training mistakes made by beginner
0:48.7	and intermediate lifters.
0:50.5	Now, if you are above an intermediate or you think you are, you could be making these
0:55.5	mistakes too. To be honest with you, most people make these mistakes. And sometimes people carry
1:00.2	these mistakes on throughout their training journey for years. But the reality is no matter what
1:07.3	stage you are in, these things will hold you back. You know, and I don't like to classify
1:12.4	beginner intermediate and advanced lifters based on how long they've been lifting, which is really
1:18.6	common. You know, if you've been lifting for three plus years, you're now advanced lifter,
1:23.2	or what I commonly hear is like your first one to two years is beginner.
1:31.7	You're for like from year two to five is intermediate and then beyond five,
1:32.5	you're an advanced lifter.
1:38.8	But the reality is is your experience level and like the title to the category you are in is based on how well you lift and perform in the gym and how good your results are, like plain and simple,
1:45.9	you know, so like if you train really well, you're getting results. Now, it doesn't mean you
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