Listening to Paul's Advice, Optimizing It for my Situation

[mortdk]

@swolagani

There’s not a single gym within a 20 mile radius that is an actual gym, and not a Planet Fitness tier abomination. .So I went and bought my own rack, and barbell, and pullup bar, and some weights. So obviously I’ve got some equipment limitations as to what I can do. Here are lifts I can build my routine around. I organized them in terms of category

PUSH:

• Bench Press
• Overhead Press / Push Press
• Dips (Weighted / BW)
• Lateral Raises (done holding weight plates)

PULL:

• Deadlifts
• Barbell Rows
• Pullups/Chinups (Weighted / BW)
• Rear Lateral Raises (done holding weight plates)

LEGS

• Squat (Front/Back)
• RDL
• Leg Extensions
• Lying Hamstring Extensions

You have your workouts right there my friend.
Do two hard sets of each exercise work your way up from 8 to 12 reps.
Add weight to the bar, start over with 8 reps.
Do it for a year and see where you’re at by then.

[swolagani]

thanks all that helped

i found a program I liked and Im going to stick with it

[strongmangoals]

@swolagani

it’s better than nothing

You can do better than this.

[flappinit]

@T3hPwnisher

Don’t confuse testing strength with building it.

This got overlooked, or maybe it’s just me, because this is somethaing that would have saved me a lot of wasted time and unnecessary discomfort had I known it at the beginning.