Recommended Routine for a couple of years. It’s the best and I would, as the name says, recommend it.

I’m about to start stage 4 of new rules of lifting for women, so about 16 weeks in. It’s been a few years since I’ve followed a weight lifting program, and so far this has been a good beginner’s program that’s been easy to adapt to a home gym and a 2x/week schedule. There’s another 16 weeks to go and I am finding that I am feeling excited to move on to something new. I might try Sohee’s Year of Strength 2.0 next.

Wendler. My old box gym used to run Wendler cycles and I really liked it. Gives you a good cycle of test, work, recover.

I have a home gym now and it’s the cycle I use.

I’m doing a program that my gym’s trainer wrote for me. I do enjoy it; I was a complete beginner when I started so it’s really nice to see my strength gains so far. I’m almost at the end of it (1 week left) so I am considering switching to 5/3/1. It seems to be a well-regarded program and I like that it’s more focused on gaining strength vs. bodybuilding, and that each workout is reasonably short.

I recently switched to Stronger By Science’s Novice Hypertrophy program a few weeks ago. They sell their programs here in spreadsheet form.

I had been running a basic PPL program since I started working out and will probably switch away from the Novice program to the regular one in a few months.