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Originally Posted by lewdog
Strength gains can be largely related to neural adaptations resulting from being a n00b. Without knowing your numbers, strength gain is hard to assess.
And again, just because you lost weight, doesn't mean your routine is optimal. That's more related to diet than anything. But many focusing on bodypart splits, such as the one you listed, are neglecting multi-joint movements such as deads, squats, bench and MPs, which can further enhance fat loss and increase muscle mass (read---you can eat more and still lose more weight!).
Not saying that's your case as you didn't list your exercises, but it's very true for many who run bodypart splits that I've known and who I see workout in the gym. There are so many more optimal workouts for strength and body composition gains than many workout programs which only target a body part once per week. That's not optimal by any stretch of the imagination and has been shown to have many limitations after the n00b gains wear off.
Just trying to educate. There's a lot of faulty information out there.
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I workout at the PD gym. It's free and I can do it on duty. We have no squat rack, bench rack, or any of the real lifting type of stuff. We have dumbbells and a few machines. We've been trying all year to get the chief to let us buy a power rack.
I'm not paying money for a gym membership when I can do it for free (technically get paid an hour a day).