Weightlifting 101

Regal’s Weightlifting Advice This is a non-exhaustive mini-blog post of important fitness and nutrition info. By no means an expert, I’m a big nerd who’s had his fair share of fitness + nutrition successes and failures. This guide is generally aimed at new or prospective lifters with advanced tips at the end. And to keep things simple, I’ll broadly break this guide down into 3 steps: Understanding the Biology Basics Choosing a Routine and tracking it The Mental Approach And real quick, I need to impress upon you that you do NOT need a fancy gym membership (or gym at all) to make significant weightlifting/muscle/aesthetic gains. It is fully possible to meaningfully improve your physical ability through bodyweight exercises alone. That being said I’ll mostly be writing from the assumption that you have access to some gym equipment. Biology and Biomechanics! This is just a primer to help paint a picture of what weightlifting does to the body, and how to use those mechanics to hit our…