Looking for a good weight program to follow

What gym do you go to?

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I just don’t remembered the old routines from HS sports when I was younger.

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Well, I do, and trust me, it's probably best left as a distant memory at best.

How many days a week do you think you could get to the gym?
That answer will determine a lot in terms of what kind of program you do. As for picking up and learning lingo, acronyms, abbreviations, etc, just keep reading posts/threads on here and anywhere else you choose to and if you have a question about "What the hell does 6YTTH mean?" (I just made that up, as far as I know it means nothing) You can ask folks directly or you can do an internet search and do your best. But if you keep after your reading you will pick things up quickly. I just 15 minutes ago googled "The Rippler" because I've heard HVAU mention it several times and I assumed it was some kind of program (it is) but I didn't know what, so I read a little about it.

To save you time and simplify, you can stay right here on the Health & Fitness TD board and go find The Greyskull Methods - A Primer, it's on page 2 right now. That lays out a very simple programming methodology that you can bend and modify to fit your needs or use it as it's presented. There's also a description of the basic program that you can use as a template to get started right away without falling down any deep, dark rabbit holes.

I completely understand the overwhelmed feeling and not wanting to get bogged down by complexity, goal setting, or whatever it is that can take a person away from Just Starting. You'll get a lot of recommendations from others here I'm sure, but if I were you I'd try to have tunnel vision and remove the chances that you'll fall victim to Paralysis Due To Overanalysis.

Just pick something quickly that sounds simple to you and get started. Once you're up and going you can worry about making things harder, more complex, doing more reading and learning new things, etc.

ETA: I'm currently doing a GSLP (GreySkull Linear Progression, if you see the letters LP it's fairly safe to assume they stand for Linear Progression) and I'm not recommending you read the Greyskull thread out of any extreme bias, it's just simple for you because it's on this board already laid out for you in one thread. I have never thought about weight training in terms of body parts, because I have always done barbell training for athletic performance using squat, bench press, dead lift, and press. To me...all of those are "total body lifts" but they have different emphasis on different parts of the body. Just my .02

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What gym do you go to?

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Gym is at work, fire dept. But they are all young and trying to be body builder type

Thank you

Either the aforementioned Greyskull lp or ppsa young grasshopper

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Gym is at work, fire dept. But they are all young and trying to be body builder type

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This is perfect! Get yourself on a strength building program and make all the young bucks jealous by out lifting them.

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Was asking because many gyms offer trainers to tailor workouts for clients.

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and most are fluff bullshite

Glad you are on this path, using a proven program is the right move for 99.99% of people. Two tips...set a very, very conservative 1 rep training max to start, find a good warm up routine, and figure out how much time you have for your workouts. One hour should be more than enough for most, but many can be done in significantly less time if you keep a solid pace.

it is. run 2x adn you have set yourself up with a great foundation.

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531

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I endorse this program or it's variants. I'm a long time gym rat but always struggled with gaining size until I started this. You can do it as is or modify it to suit your needs. I'm actually doing 863 now, same principal, more reps and lower weight. I may go back to 531 soon or stick with this a while longer.