During covid I built a home gym (power rack, barbell and plates) never having touched any of it before in my life, and built a wrestler’s physique. It is absolutely possible to go this route. The amount of information available online now is incredible, and in some ways you would be better off teaching yourself versus going to a personal trainer in the gym. They tend to baffle you with BS, and “manage” your program for you with all kinds of wacky exercises.

The recipe is deceptively simple. You don’t need a gym full of machines, a barbell at home can get you yoked. If you are interested in going this route let me know I can point you in the right direction

Or just stop murdering people en masse…?

A good program makes all the difference!

/r/weightroom: There were experienced people that would answer questions, daily threads for posting workouts, program reviews, from time to time they would run a cycle of super squats together and everyone would report their progress and share the suffering… just generally a great place if you’re interested in lifting

The most blatant issue is not exercising. You don’t have to do anything drastic but adding an evening walk to your routine and changing nothing else would be really beneficial for you. If you added a few hours of walking per week and dropped the beer completely that would definitely tip the scales in your favour and you would see the weight dropping.

I would expect those two changes would benefit your sleep too

Are you following any weightlifting program in particular? I got a barbell and a rack during Covid and turned myself into a brick shithouse with 531 and tactical barbell. /r/weightroom is the community I miss the most from reddit

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