Can You Become “Too Strong”?
Being too strong is one of the fears I hear a lot from some ladies, that are afraid that they are getting too strong.
But rest assured, this isn’t a problem you will come across.
For starters, building massive strength takes a LONG time.
A Decade at least of hard work. Especially for ladies, who have a disadvantage due to lower testosterone levels.
Secondly, most people immediately picture looking like a bodybuilder when they associate weights with muscle and strength. A gigantic amount of muscle mass.
Here’s the problem with that comparison: its the equivalent of an intern worrying they will accidentally become a CEO. As most of you hard-working professionals know, that simply doesn’t happen in the business world, and it doesn’t happen in the gym either.
When it comes to strength, our society usually has a lack of strength, especially with advancing age and inactivity, and most complaints are that things are becoming “too hard” rather than too easy.
Things you’ll never hear:
It was “too easy” to carry my groceries
Picking up my child was “too effortless”
It took “very little effort” to cycle up that hill
I wish I used a cane/motorized cart “instead of being strong enough to walk”.
So while we tend to gravitate towards extremes in fitness, the actual fact is that none of you reading this will reach those extremes you see in popular culture.
Instead, developing more strength than you have prepares you to tackle every day tasks with less effort, and allows you to enjoy the fruits of your labor well into old age.
Can you get to strong? Not really. But you can definitely get to weak. And getting too weak is where trouble starts in life.
