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The exact rep where the weight stops being a metaphor and starts being a liar.
means The specific part of an effort—often a joint negotiation or a lift—where progress stalls and everything hangs on getting past that one spot.
from Rooted in weightlifting and mechanics, where a 'sticking point' is the exact angle in a lift where leverage is weakest and the bar seems to stall or stick, well before the 'point' meaning a contested issue in an argument or deal was borrowed from that same sense of something physically catching and refusing to move.
- origin
- term predates gyms, meant any stalled negotiation
- physics
- joint angle with worst leverage, not weakest muscle
- fix
- pause reps at that angle build through it
- irony
- the point you avoid is the point you need