The 3 biggest mistakes people make in the gym, according to YouTube fitness stars The Lean Machines
- Business Insider spoke to fitness YouTube stars The Lean Machines.
- The duo, made up of John Chapman and Leon Bustin, told us about the biggest mistakes they see people make in the gym.
- Chapman advises people to be wary of following workouts they see on Instagram, and instead finding what exercises work for them.
- Bustin tells his clients to set achievable goals to maximise feelings of accomplishment.
John Chapman and Leon Bustin are personal trainers who aren't interested in long-term clients.
The duo, known as The Lean Machines to the 420,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel, have 16 years of experience in the fitness industry between them.
"Our goal is to have people work with us, coach them, get them into a position where they feel confident enough to do their own food, their own diet and know what they're doing," Chapman says.
"Basically just strip away all the conflicting ideas and the conflicting advice and just give them a solid way that suits their lifestyle."
INSIDER asked the fitness stars about the biggest mistakes they see people making in the gym — and there were three things that stood out.
1. Following someone else's programme just because they look good doing it
"It's not one size fits all," Chapman says.
Just because someone you follow on Instagram looks good doing a certain workout doesn't mean it's necessarily right for your body or your experience level.
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"People seem to hold so much power in the gym just because of the way that they look, they don't necessarily have to hold a qualification or something like that," Chapman added.
"I've seen some weird and wonderful booty workouts on Instagram over the years because the person creating the content has got very shapely buttocks."
Although the person you follow has got results in the way that they train, their method may not be right for you.
"Somebody doing a bottom half squat might activate their glutes in a completely different way to somebody else," he said.
2. Not being realistic with your goals
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You're setting yourself up for failure if you give yourself unachievable goals, Bustin says.
"When I'm working with clients I always say: 'Realistically, how many times can you go to the gym a week and keep that consistent?' If they say 7, I say, 'well you're not doing 7.'"
"Unless your life is so carefree or maybe you're at a point in your life where you can afford to do that — most people can't do that. We have kids or we have work."
Instead, Bustin advises his clients to set achievable goals that will leave them feeling accomplished if they're able to exceed them.
"Our job is really to set people up to win," he says.
"We need to start from a place which is reinforcing people, making them feel awesome and really making it achievable for them.
"Everyone wants to win and everyone wants to see progress."
3. Drinking sugary energy drinks while trying to lose weight
Not everyone is in the gym to burn fat, but if that is your goal, Chapman recommends laying off the sugary isotonic beverages.
"One of the things that we see people doing is drinking a whole Lucozade [energy drink] as soon as they walk in the gym," he says.
"They're not going to be running off the energy stores that they've got in their muscles, they'll run off the sugar [from the Lucozade]."
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