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26 comments
Who has the better physique? Me or Ahhhnold?
i can already bodyweight bench press but only have a slightly more than bodyweight squat and a 1.5x bodyweight deadlift
I don't think you can honestly make any hard rules like this for a population that is so variable. For example a small guy (135lbs) squatting 315 lbs is not just leaving the beginner stage, he's squatting 2.33x bodyweight. A 300 lbs dude on the other hand might squat 315 on his first day. For smaller individuals it gets quite irritating after a while to see fitness communities be so disparaging about their achievements.
Goals are also variable, look at some of the calisthenics guys. Being able to do advanced gymnastics moves is by definition not something a beginner can do, but will probably not result in a large amount of pure muscle gain by itself (compared to bodybuilding/powerlifting style training). Or if someone were to specialize in the bench press while excluding other movements, they will never reach what you define as an intermediate stage, even if they end up bench pressing thrice their bodyweight.
In my opinion it's pretty useless to try and make these recommendations in light of these limiting factors. What is said in this video somewhat applies if you are a lifter of average starting weight (155-175lbs) who is following a program aimed at increasing his squat, bench and deadlift 1RM. Any deviation from this and it becomes less accurate.
So Eddie Hall only pulled just over bodyweight so he's an early intermediate at best. Fucking noob.
Some of us, because of injuries will never squat or bench double bodyweight. We still build muscle. You don't have to do max lifts to build muscle.
I'm about 2 months in. Soooooo I guess I'm a zygote.
I’m a beginner I guess.
16 months of lifting
100kg bench
140kg squat
170kg deadlift
80kg BW
Body dysmenorrhea 😎
Yeah I’m a beginner
This has just left me depressed… 😔 ( 26 yrs bodybuilding – most of it not consistent and strict – and still don't do at least 2x bodyweight squats or deadlifts. barely deadlifts, if any). But then again, I focused on studying and having a career outside this big hobby of mine… I doesn't stop being depressing, nonetheless 😔
1:13 remember i thinking the same as U xDD I had the same weight and height as Arnold when i was 17 and i thought that i be future mr Olympia especially when i start shreding down.(In real i was just a fat boi) high test=an alpha self estem
OmarIsuf Shindeiru
3:10
That's ridiculous, 3 years to get 2x BW deadlift and 1x bodyweight bench?
No way it'd take over 1 year in a proper linear progression.
Gym bros sure, would take 3-4 years.
This helps a lot. I trained consistently in high school, and then took a lot of time off. After about 7 years I got back into it and another 3 years (and a lot of training ADD) I thought I was out of that stage….. but this gives me some hope that maybe I’m still there and have plenty is time left!
“Maybe your legs look like complete dog shit”
I felt that… 😕💀
Just in case you were curious about the translation of sentences in the beginning, here its
" don't froget that if you want to have a big ass you should eat a lot of humus"
I know this an old video but what the f Ed up type of lifter am I. I can bench 1.5 my body weight squat 1.7 and dead lift 2.5. Not sure why my squat is so out of proportion always. I I think it’s my hamstring glutes I never feel them during deadlifts and barely during squats I feel mostly everything g in my quads. Started good mornings hopefully that helps.
46 year old beginner here
I’m in 2.5 years and I’m just barely approaching intermediate phase
I'm still a beginner.. squat repping 265 Ibs, deadlift repping 325 Ibs, and bench repping 235 Ibs. I probably got 6 months to a year left in the beginner phase..
Any arabs around here? 🥸🥸
I think I’m somewhere in the intermediate, it’s hard to tell using years because I’ve lifted very consistently for over 10 years butttttt a lot of that time I was also running marathons so my strength gains and muscle gains were almost non existent
3 plates true ATG is strong as hell.
Ngl I have only ever seen a handful of guys squat over three plates/deadlift over 4 plates in a gym (apart from when we lifted in the football gym in my Uni) so idk if these numbers are accurate for the majority of ppl or if its just insta/youtube fitness ppl
My Bench is around 1.4-1.5x my bodyweight.
I don't do the traditional squat or deadlift, but my hex bar deadlift is somewhere between 2-2.5x my bodyweight.
I feel like I'm early intermediate in terms of upper body but more mid-late beginner in terms of lower body. My lower back has been a big limiting factor for me, hence why I chose working on the hex bar deadlift over the traditional squat and deadlift.
Being a beginner and not being strong arent directly correlated. Not everyone has the same goals.
So sad. I'm currently 38 years old, I started training at the gym at 14, and yet, I'm a beginner. I expend years (a decade, may be) without training for more of 3 months straight. I took it a little bit more seriously at 27, and I trained two years straight, but I never reached the numbers to be considered an intermediate. Thinking about it, my longest period of continuous lifting is three years. Such mediocrity 🙁
I think I’m in the fetal phase.