However it took a strain to the back and a general feeling of fatigue to hammer the message home. Excessive zeal comes in several ways, some will want to surpass themselves on every lift every time they train. Generally this is commendable, but at some point a few weeks or months in the future there will come a workout when this does not happen. My overzealous response was to repeat the same workout the day after. Sometimes it even worked, but it is not something I want to recommend.
Life has more to offer than that.
In the same vein a little laziness is good since it might keep you from going back to the gym prematurely. However too much of it will definitely make you stagnate and eventually backslide. There are quite a few things to be lazy about, and lifting weights is only one. In our modern world there is no shortage of food for the people who are rich enough to lift weights. Rampant famine is a thing of the past for most of us.