Strength in 2 Weeks

[jay jay]

How much strength development is possible for a human with good genetics, a perfect diet, a perfect weight lifting routine, and no supplements in just 2 weeks.

[ArchDukeOfTops]

not very much. 2 decades seems to be closer to the time needed.

[Mike Zero]

Depends on so many things as you said and also how experienced a lifter is. But you're question is sort of trivial - no-one will ever be able to measure it so it's not really any use to know.

Anyway,
In a good two weeks I've put 10lbs on my squat.
In a bad two weeks I've put nothing on it.

[jay jay]

I don't expect an exact answer. But someone's gotta have a general idea. obviously a person can't go up 100 ibs in 2 weeks. Has anyone ever made it 25 ibs in 2 weeks?

[WowWeakForum]

I gained about 25 lbs in my abs over a 3 week time period once. I mean, I assume it was my abs, because my waist grew about 4 inches, but I heard that if you do a lot of crunches on the Ab Crunch Machine it will push the muscle from your abs up to your chest and bicepts.

Oh, you mean strength. Yeah, if you're a newb...easy.

[John Prophet]

the only way to gain much in 2 weeks would be to do a high volume/high frequency workout, then hope u recover from it

[gijoe985]

I've had a few freak one month jumps in strength, but sometimes it's hard to tell if it was just a form change or a mental thing. When I was a Junior in high school I wanted to break the dead lift record of 550. I was doing 500 with one month left in school. I left doing 565 at the end of the school year... (Someone broke my 555 record so I had to break it back.)

Also, last year I can remember a huge jump on bench. But some of this is because of never lifting and then having your muscles adjust to a proper strength more than a gain. I had gone half a year of only doing incline dumb bell bench. I never had a spotter and I got used to not doing flat bench. I think the most I had flat benched at the time was a few reps of 240 and 11 reps of 225. I met a guy who was a power lifter and he had me try 255 for the first time ever. I got 5. This was after not flat benching for a long time. I ended up being able to rep 255 for 10 reps within a month.

These examples are not necessarily gains in strength. I think for the bench the strength was there I just had to harness it and it sometimes takes a few weeks to adjust to new movements. I was way weaker than the guy I lifted with, but a few lifts I could do better because I was used to them.

For the dead lift gains I think a lot of it was mental. I was also doing dead lift specific lifts three times a week. I wouldn't do that now and I was probably getting away with it because I was in high school and my body healed fast.

Hope some of this helps.