I should make it clear, for the moment everything I write is more about powerlifting. However, regardless of your goals, our experiences can come in handy.
Say you're trying to build muscle and don't care about strength at all, still I believe following a powerlifting program or adopting powerlifting style lifts can be super beneficial. Because I never met a guy who is following a program that is making him super strong without him building any muscle. In the same way, I never met a dude who's getting super jacked but just cannot add weight to the bar. There is no need to worry here.
But why put more emphasis on strength over cosmetics if that's all you care about? As you will develop a sense for it after a while if you haven't already, most bodybuilding programs and progressions / methods out there are a bit messy and unorganized. Exercise selection is a bit off, and volume is either too high or too low for most people. And it changes too much from month to month or from program to program. But I think people have better luck quickly finding tried and tested powerlifting "methods" / programs online. Starting strength, 5/3/1, juggernaut method, the cube method and so on.
In fact, putting more emphasis on strength in the initial stages can be more rewarding, as some "Golden Era" bodybuilders did.
All of it also applies to female trainees, which I will go into more detail about it later on in another entry.
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