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Brock would you mind sharing a little more about your experience?
I had worked out enough for the past year before to be in shape, but I wasn't working out enough to put on any serious muscle.
I read about this program on here and then did some research for it online and started off with my own weight. I started on squats and bench doing my 10 rep for my first workout. I wasn't really sure what to do for deadlift, so I did a pretty light weight (I think it was about 150lbs) so I could work on getting my form down. We never did dead lift in high school, and I never did it on my own either, so it was a new workout for me. I focused mostly on form with that workout for the first few weeks and I started to up the weight once I felt I had it down.
I started the other rows and press with about 15lbs over the starting weight and went up from there.
The app on my phone helped greatly. If I didn't finish a workout at a certain weight, it would either keep me at that weight for the next workout or bump it down by about 10lbs or so I could work back to where I was before.
I did this for about 3 or 4 months and I increased my squat, deadlift, and bench big time.
One helpful hint I used if I struggled with a set or two of a workout I would put down that I did 1 less rep than I actually did. This would keep the weight the same on the next workout and would let me work on getting that weight up to snuff.
These are fully body workouts, so once you start really getting into some weight that pushes you, you will feel like you "got a good workout" afterwards. You can always do some auxiliary lifts in between too if you want to focus on certain body parts.