> most would consider newbie gains exhausted once you can no longer linearly add weight/reps on a weekly basis This is likely to happen after about 3 months.

> most would consider newbie gains exhausted once you can no longer linearly add weight/reps on a weekly basis This is likely to happen after about 3 months. I don't really agree that the kind of weights you can achieve after 3 months pose a meaningfully elevated injury risk, unless your form is terrible or you have some existing condition.