Training should sort it out, just make sure train smart. Progress slowly, prioritise good technique and you’ll do excellently. Best of luck
Thanks, man. Also why is everyone against Blaha? His program looks like SS with accesories so, catch me up pls
He’s pretty full of shit (and himself), yet doesn’t have much credibility based on accomplishment. He accuses anyone bigger/stronger/more successful than him of being on steroids and essentially says that genetics are a good excuse for shitty results. Just generally good to stay away from his stuff, there’s a lot better advice and programs out there.
For your situation, you could look at 5/3/1 Beginner Prep School. It would involve you getting the 5/3/1 Forever book which is about $40 but worth every penny.
Otherwise, Starting Strength is a good way to get into lifting. Most people here don’t agree with Mark Rippetoe on everything, but the programming is simple and works.
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Really, wow I didn’t know that. Ight imma look at 5/3/1 and starting strenght, I found another one called Fierce 5 and I’m down to these three on my programs list. I’m kinda leaning towards fierce 5 a bit but you guys are saying strength is more preffered. So idk people say fierce 5 is more balanced but, yeah what do you guys thinl
Pick the one you enjoy the most. It probably won’t matter 5, 10 and 15 years from now
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Thanks! And about the uneven shoulders I’ll find a couple vids of YouTube and fix that’s too
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Good luck 
Any program that has you progressing weight with a sensible rep range will work. @j4gga2 is right, pick one you like and believe in and you’ll do better. You should log your workouts here, there’s an awful lot of smart people that can help you along the way 
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Thanks everyone! I have a Journal that I put the program and stuff in it so once it’s been like a few months I’ll do an update!
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Because he’s an obnoxious retard who has accomplished nothing.
5/3/1 5’s progression is something Wendler recommends for beginners, I think it would work well. Combine that with “opposite first set last” for 5x5 and then you get to do each lift twice week. You can find a 5/3/1 calculator online, the way this works is that for your work sets you do sets of 5 for all of the and then you can make a couple more 10% increases for further sets of 5 if you feel good and the weight is moving well. Just remember not to let technique break down and definitely don’t fail reps.
Then for the opposite fsl you use the weight from your first prescribed work set the same week from the so-called opposite lift (bench - ohp, squat - dl) and do 5x5. After that a little bit of assistance work, chin up and rows would be the main priority.
You’re overthinking, they are all roughly the same. Just pick one and take action.
-what training have you done in the last 7 days since you started this thread?
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There’s nothing inherently wrong with the program, but he’s the last person beginners need to know about.
As you said, his program is just SS with accessories, nothing revolutionary about it. Might as well just do the original SS and add accessories.
That’s actually something Rippetoe discusses in the book. Blaha invented nothing, except insane accusations against Layne Norton.
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The gyms are closed so I’m just planning for a program that will follow when they open back up. Also yea Imma just pick one and follow it since it doesnt really matter with a beginner like you said
He’s really that terrible, huh? Thanks for letting me know about this
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He seems like he has some sort of mental problem, I never really followed what was going on with him and Layne but Blaha was clearly out of his mind. Also he never accomplished anything as a lifter or coach. He never coached anyone successful, and his lifts were pretty mediocre. See this:
Plenty of guys on this forum, including myself, have lifted more than that in competition. I honestly don’t understand why anyone follows him at all, he’s someone you should just ignore. If you’re into general strength training, Jim Wendler (the 5/3/1 guy) has his own section on this forum. Josh Bryant has a lot of stuff on his youtube channel, and articles you can find on his site. Those guys are both 1000x better than Blaha.
@dean556 Hey dude, plenty of good advice given in this thread. Personally, if I could do my lifting career all over again, I’d start with 5/3/1 for Beginners (Google it and it should be the first or second link, to Jims blog).
There is also this to discover when Blaha gets brought up: Blahapedia
It kills me every time I read it.
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I’m not sure if it was mentioned but a quick scan through the comments and I don’t see much about it. Alot of people experience weird strength related imbalances in general. They can be right handed but curl the left more full reps then the expectedly stronger arm. Your elbows are for sure a bit wonky but you may be just compensating for strength on one side using your other side. You will work yourself out of this if you work out consistently and don’t burn yourself through the believe that you need to always lift heavier then before. Get the movement dialed in and as you get stronger it should sync up and be almost mechanical in nature. I had this issue when I was a kid and I attribute it to playing hockey my entire life shooting left and being right handed so being unbalanced was almost normal. Even now if I go off for a couple weeks or months even(especially) when I get back into it and I need to re train my muscles I’m wonkey for a bit. Posture, body and feet position, too heavy weight(even if its light… gotta lose the pride myself but your broomstick leads me more towards posture and elbow position) all cause it and I go square one in the end. Focus on going slow and correct and it’ll all work out in training
Is that a broom handle?
This, to me, is like the kid who said he had a severe pec imbalance with virtually no pec muscles because one pec was at level 0.001 and the other was at level 0.000. Everyone has “imbalances” and bodybuilders have to work against the natural asymmetry that is human anatomy, but the words “uneven” and “imbalanced” only mean anything when there’s an appreciable amount of muscle in the picture. Otherwise, there’s just not enough there even in the parts that are “stronger” than the weaker parts to label it as anything other than overall weakness.
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