Channel：Massive Iron – Steve Shaw
When I was training at a new gym in South Carolina, they had a different type of leg press machine—something I hadn’t used before. The whole session reminded me just how easy it is to get complacent without realizing it.
I started with two plates per side. It felt tough enough, and I knocked out 10 reps. Then I bumped it to three plates—still hard. Four plates? Same thing. Ten reps again, and each set felt like I was approaching my limit. I started thinking, “Okay, maybe I’ll just do three sets of 10 and move on.”
But then something shifted. I decided to toss on another two plates and go for it. Reps were deep, clean, and everything felt smooth—lower back protected, form locked in. So I threw on another two. Now I was up to five plates per side, and still getting 10 solid, buried reps. I told myself, “I’m close to my limit… but let’s see what happens.”
I went to six plates and knocked out another 10. That was the moment it hit me: I thought I was near my limit 180 pounds ago. The real barrier wasn’t my body—it was my mindset.
So I stopped thinking, stopped overanalyzing, and just let my performance guide me.
From there, things went off the rails in the best way possible. I added more. Seven plates. Eight. I worked up to nines plates per side. No more room left on the machine. And these weren’t ego reps—these were deep, buried, perfect reps. I ended it with a set of 20 that felt almost like a religious experience.
When it was all over, I sat there and asked myself: What did I just learn?
Here’s what: Feeling doesn’t matter. Not in the way we think it does. Sometimes we’re underperforming simply because we’ve convinced ourselves we’re close to failure. We’re not. We’re just playing it safe.
If you really want to grow, stop letting your feelings dictate your performance. Let the numbers decide when you’re done. Push the envelope. Chase the edge. You might just discover your best set is still waiting for you—on the other side of what you thought was your limit.
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