Like any medication that has the power to alter physiology, barbell training must be administered with attention paid to dosing – the amount and the schedule. It’s damned hard to kill yourself with barbell training, and you’d have to be ignoring a lot of things if you ever even got close, but it’s easy to get carried away and do too much, too often, with too much weight. The price paid is not death, but wasted time and potential.
