A competitive environment in gyms can lead you to risk injury by ego-lifting very heavy weights.
Without this being the intention, most exercise spaces can become competitive to the extent where “ego-lifting” leads to injuries.
If you’re regular and patient with lighter weights, you can achieve similar results.
Years of working out means I can give you 40 reps of handstand pushups (which are surely tougher than bicep curls) over five sets, but biceps, no, that is something that I haven’t been able to crack.
So after accepting this, I have rejigged my arms day to working with light dumbbells and doing sets in a 45 seconds on/15 seconds off pattern.
However, the sheer fact that lifting light can help as much as lifting heavy means that a lot of gym-goers can perfect a formula that works for them.