When you track progress

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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  • teeley
    teeley Posts: 477 Member
    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....
  • becca2911
    becca2911 Posts: 149 Member
    I definitely count the bar! 45lbs IS heavy itself!
  • Luvs_Rage_Phish
    Luvs_Rage_Phish Posts: 87 Member
    100% count the bar. That's 45 lbs. It counts.
  • lcuconley
    lcuconley Posts: 734 Member
    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!