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>>178086954
>SS+GOMAD
(But actually do a linear progression program with heavy compounds and eat more food and eat much more meat)

Read the /fit/ sticky and don't get distracted by the board much just get a gym membership at a gym with barbells and racks (not smith machines) and lift heavy. You want to be the dude deadlifting 500+ lbs at <15% bodyfat, not the dude "working his way up" to free weights only to make no gains and still be weak the first few months you hit free weights. Some machines are based, but ignore them for now and just do stuff with a barbell, follow a program from the /fit/ sticky (I liked Greyskull LP personally followed up with MadCow when I stalled), and keep track of your progression every time you lift then you'll be stronger than most normie lifters in a few months.

I fell for the machines and cardio meme and made no gains for a year despite consistently going to the gym several times a week. Read the sticky and go to a gym (not Planet Fitness) if you can read a book you can read the damn sticky. Don't read /fit/ threads til you've been lifting for a month or so (and never go to Reddit). Also if you fall off the gains wagon and get fat and don't lift for like a year, you'll still be strong and can recover your strength fairly quickly thanks to focusing on strength.

If you want to do splits or something else cute worry about that later. Just pick a program, do it, and get strong. It's a nice confidence boost being stronger than the other folks in your gym and most of the people you know. You may also inspire friends/family to get swole as well, but the gainspill takes more autism than most people can muster to swallow it (not that it is necessarily hard, just that you have to go do a thing most consider a chore and keep doing it consistently). You'll make dumb mistakes and figure things out as you go just like any other skill or hobby.

>tldr just read the fucking sticky it's not perfect
>not perfect is still better than awful though and most fitness info is AWFUL