Being in a stressed state increases injury risk and reduces performance during maximal lifting attempts.

“if he's has something planned for the day where he's trying to go like really maximal like either lift a failure or set like a PE off are in the squad or deadlift or something and he's like stressed and he won't do it because yeah you have to be not only he going to raise your injury risk but you know you're probably not going to be able to perform that activity because your nervous system just isn't in the state that's primed to do that”