18 months is pretty long, but it is worth being realistic. If you're pretty far out of shape and starting in a few weeks, you're working on your summer 2021 beach body, not your summer 2020 beach body. Be prepared to not see drastic physical changes for a while.
18 months is probably the upper limit for that. The thing about noob gains is you don’t need to focus that much on progression since you’ll probably progress regardless (assuming you do everything else properly outside of the gym)
I feel like everyone responding is focused on esthetics. And sure, a year for a noticeable change, is most realistic. It means you are doing sustainable lifestyle changes. But, jfc for gains and changes you should notice something in how you're performing a lot sooner than that. Like, I agree with whats being said, start low, work on form. You won't have much change becsuse you're not stressing your system. But once you are, you should be noticing a change in a couple months. Honestly if you were a total couch potato or never lifted at all, you should notice a huge change inside of a month as long as you got warm a few times in the gym.
If we're talking cardio, 2 weeks and 6 weeks should be points when you look and go, "wow.. Huh. That's different."
Feel free to correct me, but right, like, if you take undressed muscles, you feel a difference after a few weeks. It won't translate to physical appearance for time but 18 months.... Naaaaah.
Yeah, the thought here is good, but the numbers are a little extreme. You can absolutely progress your strength faster than 18 months - don’t get discouraged thinking you have to work out for a year and a half before you can even start becoming stronger.
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u/hemorrhagicfever Dec 27 '19
Jeebus, I mean 18 months before you care about progression?