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.