When is strong... strong enough? For those who have been in the game for a while, it's not really a question at all. There is no strong enough, at least not for 99% of us. Life and other priorities get in the way of training such that most of us never achieve "strong enough." Those little, sometimes large, life deloads put us back into strength gaining mode as we fight to recover what was lost. Thus, from a practical standpoint, there's no point questioning whether one is strong enough.