[rue]

Dunno if this is really a useful line of thinking for a beginner. I wholeheartedly agree with the advice of not overdoing it from the article.

Particularly squats. Nothing better to wreck your knees or back than squats done with too much weight and/or poor technique.

Excercise causes muscle damage which rest heals up (and results in stronger muscles). Aside from the obvious over- or understimulation, you do have some control over the type of stimulation…the two archetypes are the high-rep/low-weight and low-rep/high-weight with slightly different results.

[scott_s]

I assumed people would understand anyone who does this is not a beginner.

[rue]

Possible, sorry if I lumped you with what warpwoof said above:

> Doing full squats with your bodyweight on the barbell 15 times (3 sets of 5) is like screaming at your body to get in shape and it will respond.

I do not think (very-)high-resistance training is a good approach for people wanting to be "in shape" but, then, I make a distinction between that and bodybuilding.

[scott_s]

To me, "in shape" means whatever conditioning I think I need for the activity I want to do. That kind of strength training makes sense considering the demands of my sport.