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One example of this law is running. Research shows that the most you should run is 42 minutes because after this time, the run no longer gives your body the benefits you once received and you are therefore inefficiently using both your time and energy.

This rule can be applied to anything in your workout. At some point, you will peak and after that, if you continue exercising, you will see less and less benefit for every minute (or rep) you do.

Diminishing returns gives us another great reason to strive for variety in our training and to also be conscientious of overtraining. You never want to overwork your body, especially when you actually lessen the benefit you get.

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Diminishing Returns in Your Workout

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People who set these types of meetings up — and you know who you are — stop it! Email and IM are great tools to collaborate while getting work done. A quick, “Who will do the research on the new cat toy?” email will do wonders. It doesn’t take blocking out 30 minutes of someone else’s time to decide on this.

Oh yeah, and when the research comes in, email it out to the group before the meeting. It’s of almost no use if people have to thumb through 30 pages of junk at a meeting table before they can even start to talk. Archives, message boards, wikis and more are great tools that businesses and groups of people should not take lightly. They are productivity tools for a reason. They increase it.

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We don’t need no stinkin meetings