Random Fitness Questions

100kg as a goal is eminently achievable. Even if you are a smaller man, or a bit older, normally as Cilian says that's a benchmark you will almost certainly hit within a year of a novice program, or even sooner.

If you aren't in a position to access a coach I would suggest to you that you could consider recording a video of your squatting and post it on one of the many many form check forums that are on reddit and facebook. You basically want to shoot the video from behind and to the side, so you won't necessarily be identifiable or anything. After you've got your feedback, then you can delete the video.

Not as good as in person coaching, but better than nothing and if you're doing something fundamentally wrong, the feedback should give you at least some chance of correcting.

I think 14 is do-able to begin, although it must be said there are 14 year olds who have a good bit of their adult allotment of physical and mental coordination and then there are 14 year olds who are quite obviously still developing. But if it's the latter then I would still say to let them have at it.

I agree a novice linear progression is the way to go and personally yes, I think Greyskull would be a good choice. If you're familiar with Greyskull you'll be aware it allows for the addition of some extras on top of the compound lifts. If he's a teenage boy this may suit as he's highly like to want to do some direct arm training... At least he can do it in a structured way.

If you search the Starting Strength website they have quite a few articles on coaching teenage and high school lifters that may be of interest.

As Dtp says, calorie intake will be a big thing, making sure it's adequate based on his physical activity level.

Not really a question as such, but just an "FYI" with where I am in my own training.

Having done quite low volume training for the past 6 months, much of it Doggcrapp, I'm back now doing slightly more volume, I'm about a month into a stint with WS4SB (A good fit for me just now, having a lot on my plate and trying to do some sport too).

I'm still genuinely undecided on exactly where the sweet spot for me is volume wise, whether it's low or moderate I can usually keep progressive overload going. When I do fall down and feel 'broken' for a week or two, it's usually an external factor that is the culprit ... A heavy weekend away, a series of BJJ sparring sessions etc.

Lately I've been toying with doing something I'm never done and running a quite high volume programme. I'm looking at John Meadows' intermediate programme "Warlock", which is 2 upper, 2 lower, and runs for 8-10 weeks.

The exercise selection and sequencing is really on point and makes sense to me. Meadows was definitely a believer that people could handle more volume, even as naturals, than was normally suggested, but I'm in my early 40s and looking at "Warlock" on paper, it might be one to run going into the winter when my life is a little quieter.

The first upper body day, for example, has 9 exercises for 5 body parts, and 26 work sets. The first lower body day is glute/ham dominant and has about 20 work sets.

Meadows trained people on drugs and naturals and always believed that volume was an individual matter, some naturals can handle more than others. Looking at this on paper and knowing myself I would guess I would shave off several sets per workout.