{"id":355582,"date":"2022-02-21T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=355582"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:11:42","slug":"limiting-yourself-takes-more-restraint-and-will-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/limiting-yourself-takes-more-restraint-and-will-power\/","title":{"rendered":"LIMITING YOURSELF TAKES MORE RESTRAINT AND WILL POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The notion of &#8216;unlimited&#8217; seems to be a good one, but in actuality, not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, better to limit your reps when it comes to lifting weights (better to do fewer reps, with higher intensity\/difficulty\/weight) than crunching out mindless repetitions until &#8216;failure&#8217;. Ironically enough, you are more prone to injure yourself through doing too many repetitions, when compared to doing a <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/one-rep-max-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"329150\">one rep max<\/a>. For example, when I go for &#8216;max rep&#8217; bodyweight chin-ups (even a neutral grip), I am more likely to get elbow tendonitis than strapping on four 4-pound plates via a weight belt and doing chin-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or another example, you&#8217;re more likely to &#8216;injure&#8217; yourself (or cause annoying knee pain) by going for max-rep bodyweight squats, than a one-rep max squat at the gym (no belt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notion of &#8216;unlimited&#8217; seems to be a good one, but in actuality, not good. For example, better to limit your reps when it comes to lifting weights (better to do fewer reps, with higher intensity\/difficulty\/weight) than crunching out mindless repetitions until &#8216;failure&#8217;. Ironically enough, you are more prone to injure yourself through doing too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EK067430-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355605,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355582\/revisions\/355605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}