Strength Training: How strong can we get?

Here's a story I came across a year ago.  Basically it makes the case that we as humans are products of intelligent design. This means something far more advanced than us designed us.

The story basically argues that since our DNA has a logically and well thought out pattern in it, it means that we didn't happen by chance. We're not random probabilities that somehow  coagulated together, and then voila here we are.

So how does this relate to strength training?

Whatever thought  us up  only intended for us to make moderate strength gains. As evidence, examine the concept of beginner gains.  When you first started strength training, the gains were easy. Your bench press probably shot up rapidly. Then as the weeks went by, you probably hit a plateau and you've been stuck ever since.


Also look at how well you synthesize protein after you workout. You could easily eat two sirloin steaks after lifting and feel fine. If we were meant to keep building muscle, then we could continue to eat meat and still build muscle. But I guarantee  if you continue to eat meat after the first twenty four hours after your workout and don't taper off your protein intake, your body will reject it.

Lastly, if we were meant to continue to get strong, we wouldn't have to worry about repetitive movement injury. Our bones and joints wouldn't be held together by thin little fibers of tissue that can't hold up to too much stressful weight.

If you weren't born  with the genetics to pack muscle onto your frame, then whatever programmed your DNA doesn't want you to get strong. Luckily and almost in contradiction with whatever prime directive that's been programmed into your DNA,  we were given brains to figure out stuff.

This leads me to think that strength training without steroids is a hack. I chose to make my brain figure out how to get strong without steroids. I feel like somehow I'm getting one over on the designers of our bodies. My body was meant to be weak, but I figured out how to make it strong.

My question is then how strong are we supposed to be? I don't know. Maybe I'll find out when my body snaps in half with an eight hundred pound weight on the back of my neck.