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Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Top-6 GYM Mistakes Killing Your Gains

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Working out is tough, but it’s even tougher when the things you’re doing in the gym are holding you back. In this episode of Fitness Stuff for Normal People, Marianna and Tony go through the top mistakes most people make when training. From rest times to tracking your lifts, these are the small details that can completely change your progress. Whether you’re brand new or years into lifting, catching these mistakes will save you time, energy, and frustration. You’ll learn how to train smarter, not just harder, so the work you put in actually pays off. We’ll cover what the research really says and give you practical ways to adjust your workouts starting today.


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Timestamps:

(2:32) Mistake 1

(10:29) Mistake 2

(19:27) Mistake 3

(26:08) Mistake 4


(33:06) Mistake 5

(39:14) Mistake 6

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know what's hard? Working out. Like it's fun, but it is hard, right? Consistently hitting the

0:05.6

gym takes a lot of effort. And if you have any sense of normalcy, you want to make sure

0:09.7

everything you do in there isn't actively working against you. Today we're talking about the

0:15.0

top six mistakes that most people are still making in the gym. But before that, if you haven't

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It's just five bucks a month. And you get access to every single one of our complete 12-week

0:26.4

training programs programmed out in Google Sheets so you can track and guarantee that you are making

0:31.2

progress, along with bonus episodes every single Friday, AMA style, where we answer your questions.

0:36.7

It's only five bucks a month,

0:37.9

and it takes less than 60 seconds to sign up for. We'll leave the link to do that in the show notes below

0:42.4

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