I often see posts/articles saying beginners should do this, don’t do this, etc.
What defines a beginner? Someone who’s just started? Someone who’s been using iso-moves for years? someone who’s been lifting complex movements for 6month? one year?
Of course the guys who have been lifting for over a decade are going to be biased a little, but what IS a beginner?
[quote]StrongMan wrote:
I often see posts/articles saying beginners should do this, don’t do this, etc.
What defines a beginner? Someone who’s just started? Someone who’s been using iso-moves for years? someone who’s been lifting complex movements for 6month? one year?
Of course the guys who have been lifting for over a decade are going to be biased a little, but what IS a beginner?
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A beginner status has nothing to do with the length of time training. I recently went back home for the holidays and noticed that some of those people, who are actually regulars, look EXACTLY the same, or worse, as they did 2 or 3 years ago. They aren’t in good shape, just stagnant. That would also warrant the title of “beginner”. Anyone who, regardless of time training, has made little to no progress or has wasted their time by not finding that mind muscle connection and learning what makes their body respond is a beginner. They could have trained for 15 years and they would still be a beginner.
On the opposite hand, those who quickly learn how their body responds and make significant progress towards their goals could be intermediates within the first few months to a year. I know I responded well to training, read as much as I could and structured my training pretty quickly (even though I still made mistakes…like training arms 2-3 times a week) my body still responded very well. I doubt most would consider that to be a beginner’s action.
Thanks Professor.
I guess I asked the question because I didn’t feel like a beginner, but I have only been lifting for 9 months (only 5 months if you count when I knew what I was doing).