>>1016964 (OP)The first 3 months progresses you the fastest. You’ll blow up in size annd strength and feel great because of how fast you’re progressing . At around the 3rd month, you’ll start to slow down.
The first 1.5 years is the best. Setting new PRs consistently and getting your 100kg bench press.
Personally, I trained 7 days a week for the first 7 months and then dropped it to 6 then adjusted my split a little so I trained 3 days in a row - 1 day off and repeat for about 2-3 years, and now days I’m basically working out every day again.
Maybe add a little more volume on your training days, or pick up cardio on the days you’re not lifting, or just double the amount of time you spend lifting weights I guess.
<My best advice is find what your purpose is. Why are you in the gym? What excites you the most about lifting?
People say ‘I wanna get stronger’, get stronger and then stop going for months. Or say ‘I want a summer body’ or some other bullshit. You need something bigger than yourself, you need a real practise that gives you constant goals to work towards.
‘Power building’ is when you progressively overload whilest keeping a mid-high rep range, so you build strength and size in parallel. I did this for 3.5 years before doubling down on bodybuilding.
At the end of it, I realised I’d rather be bigger than stronger. Hitting 140kg bench press was whatever to me but that might get you fired the fuck up.
You won’t know until you hit it