How to Measure Real World Strength Training

In today’s fitness landscape, knowing what to do and where you are going with your training has probably never been more difficult. There are plenty of things that LOOK really, really cool, but put your health at great risk. Am I just asking you to go back to the good ole’, good ole’ workouts? No way, our knowledge of strength training has progressed TOO much to do just what we did 10, 20, even 30 years ago (which sadly people cling to).

A couple of weeks ago I offered some direction in how to still optimize strength training, but to be more thoughtful of our movements as well (you can read HERE). The point was to not go with novel exercises and not to fall into outdated forms of strength training. That led us to 6 great DVRT exercises that would greatly change how you see your strength training.

Knowing the value of these strength training exercises is one thing, knowing if you are doing well at them is another. I had several brain storming sessions with our great DVRT Master Instructors because I didn’t want to make up numbers like so many times happens on the internet. Based on what would add up to hundreds of different people we all work with we came up with a great frame work to measure if our strength training with DVRT was on track.

Whenever we put out standards (as we did with the Clean and Press challenge) people often freak! They look at the numbers and realize maybe they weren’t using DVRT for the strength training effect that we were hoping. They fell into the trap of doing an exercise here and there and not realizing what we wanted to accomplish with the system.

Our expectation is that you will need re-examine your strength training routines. You might find these standards really eye opening, but that is the point! We want you to actually train, not just workout, with DVRT to reach these standards. What good are standards if without even training you can pass them.

Instead of overwhelming you with all these strength training standards we are going to look at 3 of the 6 right now. What are we looking at? Here are the standards….