When do you know you're an "intermediate" lifter?

When do you know you're an "intermediate" lifter?

When you hit intermediate numbers

when you can't add weight every workout anymore

what a dumb question, stop shitting my board. FUCK YOU

When you're edging 1/2/3/4 I guess

1/2/3/4
ohp/bench/squat/dead

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Usually when you walk into the gym and balloons fall from the ceiling and the desk girl congratulates on being an intermediate lifter.

what of there were no balloons, but she sucked my dick in the back?

Don't feel too special, you're probably not the first guy at that gym she blew.

well id assume so since there a lot of big guys

4her

1/2/3/4/ for reps

Mark Rippetoe addressed this in one of his books. A novice lifter can increase the weight every session. An intermediate lifter can increase the weight every week. An advanced lifter can only increase the weight every month. This isn't a perfect rule but serves as a good guideline.

That's not smart. That has more to do with if you lift for strength or aesthetics, how hard you push yourself , by what increments you go up, etc.

I haven't gone up more than once a month since my first year of lifting. I am far from advanced (280/300/400 - max s/b/d)

Symmetricstrength.com will tell you, though I don't know how accurate it is

When you don't look like Ryan Gosling

L O N D O N

it's for a dedicated strength trainee obviously

When your gym nemesis looks like he lifts

fatties and manlets can hit that pretty fast so no

I'd say whenever you're never the strongest person in a gym at any given time, but you are given frequent mires of your lift regardless.

>80% of gym squats between 0.5-2pl8
>do sets of 3pl8
>catch mires
>saw a dude do sets of 4pl8 earlier so I can't find it to pride myself in these mires
>feels bad