20/09/2022
What are your weight lifting goals?
As personal trainers, we are often asked about long-term weight lifting goals. That is, how much should you aim to lift in each of your major exercises and how long should it take for you to get there?
These are good questions, since these numbers can be important markers of your progress as you continue to get stronger, allowing you to gauge whether youโre on track.
As far as weight lifting goals go, one of the best indicators of your progress is something called relative strength. This is a measure of how much you are able to lift for certain core exercises, relative to your current body weight.
Every person is different, and some people are naturally better suited for certain exercises, and are comparatively weaker in others.
For example, people with longer arms will often excel at deadlifting as opposed to bench pressing.
In turn, people with shorter arms will generally have a stronger bench press relative to their deadlift!
Squatting is often easier for guys with shorter femurs compared to people with longer femurs. And heavier people, with higher percentages of body fat, may find pull-ups particularly challenging compared to the other 4 exercises.
Finally, donโt feel that you have to reach advanced levels to have a lean, muscular physique.
In fact, most people will look muscular after they have reached the Intermediate level, which can be done in 1+ years.
So what are your goals?
