I've been lifting like a complete newb for the past 6 months. I've seen some decent gains. Should I go straight to the Bill Starr routine, or would I be better off buying "Starting Strength"? I really want to start an actual program rather than this random junk I've been doing, but I'm kind of confused on what I should do.

I've been lifting like a complete newb for the past 6 months. I've seen some decent gains. Should I go straight to the Bill Starr routine, or would I be better off buying "Starting Strength"? I really want to start an actual program rather than this random junk I've been doing, but I'm kind of confused on what I should do.

What are your goals and where do you stand with respect to them?

I've been lifting like a complete newb for the past 6 months. I've seen some decent gains. Should I go straight to the Bill Starr routine, or would I be better off buying "Starting Strength"? I really want to start an actual program rather than this random junk I've been doing, but I'm kind of confused on what I should do.

I'd start with Starting Strength where you increase the weight each workout and once you've stalled, reset and stalled again I would move on to Bill Starr's 5x5 where you increase once a week.

What are your goals and where do you stand with respect to them?

I want to bulk and bulk and bulk until I get to the point of "periodization", then cut until I'm fairly ripped, then go back to bulking :)

As far as where I stand - I'm at 5'7", 157 lbs, somewhere around 12-15% bf

Might as well go with ripptoe, I guess, eh? Can't hurt.