Strength Training

Strength is a skill as much as a size question. Understanding the difference explains why beginners get strong so fast, and why it stops.

How to build a strength programme that progresses: main lifts, rep schemes, when to add weight, and how to handle the point where linear progress ends.

What counts as a respectable squat, bench and deadlift at each stage of training, and why these numbers are a rough map rather than a scorecard.

Grip is the first thing to fail on most pulling exercises, which means your back stops being trained before it stops being able to train.

A belt measurably adds reps. It also does not do the thing lifters most often say it does, and one recent study measured both.

Everything else is going up and the bench has not moved in two months. That pattern has a small number of causes, and they are checkable in order.