I don’t know what I am. My existential crisis has led me to change programs a few times in the last 30 days. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Here’s some background information. In October 2018 I decided to lose some weight. Keto, cardio the whole bit. While it wasn’t ideal, I know that now, I went from 260’s to 199. Now I weigh about 210. I am 6’1” 32 years old. My weight loss stalled hard. Like 2.5 months of spinning my wheels, starving myself, and doing more cardio.
I decided to start resistance training, eating carbs, and getting strong. I’ve been consistently resistance training for about 2.5 months. My programming was a disaster (still is). I was doing push, pull, legs splits with little direction. I knew I was weak, so I changed to a full body “strength” routine. Essentially, I’d do a couple sets of 5, then a couple sets of 3, then a couple singles on every exercise, but I did focus on the 4 main lifts. I was mostly concerned with “maxing out” each trip to the gym. I wasn’t getting very far. My strength stats currently; 300 Deadlift, 285 Squat, 210 Bench, 120 Overhead Press.
I downloaded the beginner prescription and the volume is lower than I was training. Despite that I decided to start there anyway. I’ll be honest, free factored in a bit. Any intelligently designed program must be better then the program I haphazardly threw together though.
I intend to follow programming from Barbell Medicine. I just don’t know if I am a beginner and should start with the Beginner Presciption, and move on to the Beginner Template. Or, should I start with something like the bridge series. Or, is there some other program that makes more sense.
Thanks in advance.