Originally Posted by
Swordfish
Hello,
Just learned about this forum recently. I'd been doing isolated exercises during my workouts in the past. Just last year I started learning about compound lifts and Starting Strength on an unrelated forum.
I started doing Starting Strength a short time ago. I have two questions. One, I saw Mark mentioning somewhere (not sure if it was on a forum or in the book) that we should be increasing our weights 10 pounds every workout. Thats definitely not happening with me. I must also say that for some reason I'm much weaker than pretty much anyone on this forum. Last I squatted I did 85 pounds, and that was after a good month or two of working out. Last bench was 105, DL was 95 I believe. But I digress. So we're supposed to be increasing 10 pounds per workout but that's definitely not happening with me. Something wrong there or is it just because I'm so much weaker that I won't progress as fast?
Also, I got a fitness evaluation recently and it turns out I'm 26% body fat! Wow that's pretty high. I don't actually look that fat but when I'm home and chilling out I can definitely see a belly. So with this level of fat is SS still the right program for me or should I be going w/ something more oriented towards fat loss? My goals in working out were originally to get bigger / stronger, but losing fat should obviously become a priority now.
Best,
Dan