Eli5: Newbie gains

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Explain like I’m five, how do people new to working out get newbie gains? Why isn’t it just the same amount of progress per session for people who have been doing it for a long time?

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The way I see it, newbie gains are the easiest portion of the fitness curve to achieve. Think of your maximum fitness possible to achieve with your genetics as all the fruit on a tree. Newbie gains are those low hanging fruit you can just grab from the ground without going to extreme effort. Once all the easy fruit is picked you have to do more and more work to pick the fruit that’s higher up and harder to reach.

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