Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

Join group

Strength gains correlated to size

Zenkei18
Zenkei18
Posts: 277
Joined: 2005/06/22
United States
2005/11/13, 02:06 PM
If you constantly increase your bench and squat and deadlift weight will you eventually get bigger overall
dendys
dendys
Posts: 139
Joined: 2005/10/24
United States
2005/11/13, 03:29 PM
Yes, but I encourage you to add military press, standing bicep curls, lying tricep extentions, pull-ups and abs for overall symmentry. Are you strictly a power lifter?
Zenkei18
Zenkei18
Posts: 277
Joined: 2005/06/22
United States
2005/11/13, 07:36 PM
I train my whole body and stuff but I just include squats and bench and deadlifts and try to make them heavier whenever I can just wondering if that would make strength increase overall on a lot of my lifts and thus make me bigger over time etc... I'm not STRICTLY a powerlifter.
wrestler125
wrestler125
Posts: 4,619
Joined: 2004/01/27
United States
2005/11/14, 10:49 AM
Yes. Your are correct in your assumptions. The powerlifts have good carryover to total body strength, which will lead to better mass gains.

--------------
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~~~Hunter S. Thompson

If you smoke or don’t wear your seatbelt, please don’t tell me the deadlift is dangerous.