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this is from rippetoe's new "starting strenght". how the hell the squats progress so fast?
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It said that was a typical beginner. I must have been an extraordinarily weak, weak, weak individual when I started. I suspect it has a lot to do with proper instruction and being an actual beginner instead of a relative beginner to doing things right but who comes with a huge bag of problems and imbalances.
But I tell you what, I'll bet someone who "progresses" like that looks like shit under the bar. They start loading the bar really fast and technique goes to shit. They start out going deep on squats and get higher and higher, stuff like that. It becomes all about quantity over quality. I've never read SS and I have no intention of reading the new one but it's one of my problems with the programs in general that everything is about "getting the volume" in and there seems to be no discussion of quality. So it leads to this continual question of "I got my weight in but my form suck...do I keep it?" I think it's a pretty damn important question and is the big problem with cookie cutters. A lot of times I think people would be better off getting 15 quality reps in rather than 15 reps with half of them sucking balls.