Yam Uncle's Thoughts

Definitely unrelated but I realized my post on The Book Club had like 50 something hits, unlike the other posts that have like 3 at most.  Do TBC fans read Blogger?  Had no idea lol.  Anyways.   I haven't written much on anything lately so I thought it might be fun to do a write up on things I would tell myself if I could go back in time and talk to beginner lifter me.  Probably back when I was 16 and had no idea what I was doing.  Or maybe when I was 14 and was forced to touch weights when I didn't want to.   A couple reasons why I wanted to do this.  One is because I always see other people making videos about this on YouTube, most recently the Eoin Murphy video I watched about it on the Sika Strength channel which was pretty eye-opening.  Also the ones the girls make about their "fitness journey".  But so yeah I thought it could be fun.  But also another bigger reason is, I see myself thinking, what would it be like to ...

 Was thinking a lot about changing programs lately.  Half because I wasn't seeing the progress I was hoping for in my current cycle, but the other (probably bigger) half is that I just want a fresh change.  As I've written about before, I've been running The Bridge for a while now.  I guess it's been, so I'm running my 3rd cycle now so it's been 6 months total?  Damn.  And well, it took me pretty far.  I'd actually be happy running it again if I had to.  But yeah, a fresh change.   I'm thinking of organizing this post like this: 1. What got me stuck in this cycle, 2. What I'm looking for in a future program, ideally,  3. How I went about looking for programs, and 4. The one I decided to go with.   1. What got me stuck in this cycle Jumping right into it lol.   So I think the main thing that got me stuck was that I used weights that were too heavy.   As you might know, The Bridge is an RPE-based training...