When you track progress
SweatpantsRebellion
Posts: 754 Member
Just a quick question. Like everyone else here, I like to keep tabs on how I'm progressing in my strength gains. For the exercises that include a bar, such as squats and deadlift, do you count the weight of your bar when you keep track of how much your lifting. For ex. - on squats I started out with bar. Now I'm at 70 pounds, but with the Olympic bar being 45 pounds, I'm thinking about writing it out as starting weight 45 pounds, current weight 115 pounds. Not that I think there's a right or wrong way to do this. I'm just curious what other people do!
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I would add in the bar weight, in reality you are lifting the bar wieght with the added weight...BUT as long as you are consistant nothing wrong with that....I would want to tell people I squat 115 rather than 70....0
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I definitely count the bar! 45lbs IS heavy itself!0
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100% count the bar. That's 45 lbs. It counts.0
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Not that I think there's a right or wrong way to do this.
There is a right way and that is to count the bar. GREAT progress! Congrats!0
