Re: Strength/Weight
The correlation between strength gains and weight gains definitely exists -- bigger muscles are more likely to be stronger muscles -- but this isn't necessarily so. Like someone else has mentioned here before, much of your initial strength gains involve an improvement in your central nervous system at doing a better and more efficient job recruiting more muscle fibers and also coordinating effort between different muscle groups during compound lifts.
If after 1-3 months of lifting you've peaked, something is seriously wrong. Either your nutrition is terrible, or you're somehow overworking your body, or you're doing really [censored] exercises, or something else along those lines.
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