When it comes to lifting weights and strength training, there are six common questions that folks ask me all the time and it kind of goes something like this.

Hey, can I pick your brain about XYZ on this episode? I'm going to answer these six very common questions about lifting weights so that you have a resource to come back to over and over and get some simple answers to your common questions.

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On this show. So today we're going to be diving into six extremely common questions that I get as a strength coach that are related to lifting weights and the like. Now these are really related to lifting and not so much the nutrition that supports lifting, which is something I'm going to go into in a future episode.

So really today I'm going to be focusing on these six super common questions. People often say, hey, can I pick your brain about this and I'm putting it all in one show for you.

So a couple things. First is if you want to find out how you can work with me on one on one strength nutrition coaching head over to my website. There's a tab called work with me and you can click on private coaching.

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The second thing is is that I have a group program coming this summer. We're calling it project X for now, but it's really going to be about strength nutrition.

How to get stronger fuel yourself recover properly and without having to be super micromanaged with what you're eating counting weighing measuring food and all that stuff. So that sounds interesting to you.

Interesting to you. You want to join the wait list for early access and other bonuses. Then go ahead and head to my website, Steph God row dot com.

And then you can click on group coaching. It'll take you to the wait list. Okay, let's go ahead and dive in to these six questions.

The first question I hear so often is this, how do I know if I'm lifting heavy enough. So when we're lifting weights, it's really important that we're lifting heavy enough to give some kind of result.

And that's the beautiful part about lifting weights strength training resistance training. I kind of use those three terms interchangeably.

But it's the beauty of it because you get stronger in less time. It's more efficient than some other types of exercise in terms of building your strength.

Now, there's certainly value to things like cardio and stretching and mobility and all of that stuff. But if we're talking about getting stronger, we need to lift weights and do it heavy enough. And I'm using some air quotes here on the word heavy.

Because when people hear heavy, they get scared. And I totally understand this. Normally when people think, oh, I have to lift heavy.

They think you're envisioning some giant dude with a barbell on their back and their eyes are bugging out of their head and the weight is the barbell is bending. It's so heavy.

And that is really intimidating for folks. So here's the thing. My answer is, what is heavy is relative to each person.

So I've been strength training now for 11 years. I joke with my friends that they have black belts in Brazil. You did too. I'm a black belt in lifting weights because I've been doing it for so long.

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