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Minimum Mindset for Long Term Gains

“Abs and traps should be trained like you’re paying back student loans; always do the minimum.” - Dom Mazzetti

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Steve Bechtel
Feb 13, 2025
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It’s not hard to see that being strong and powerful and having great endurance and being flexible could each help our climbing. When we get going on a training program, we all start looking for makers of progress (in exercise science, we call this “gainz”), and the obvious path to even more progress is more training. It’s a bit of a trap, and I’ll sugge…

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