First set are the beginning. I started working out 2 months prior to those photos, and before that I never lifted a weight in my life. I don't know how I should evaluate my progress. Is it good, bad or average?

Last photos are from this morning at 153lb body weight and no pump - I last worked out the night before. Beginning is about the same weight. I sit at a desk all day for work. Strength has improved from a \~60lb bench, \~60 lb squat \~90lb deadlift to 165 bench, 225 squat 330 deadlift but I've also been in a cut for 2 months.

I did 3 months of strong lifts 5x5 and then switched to the RP hypertrophy app. I figured I'd pay for a year of RP and see what happens and 100% it doesn't work well for me. After 3 months of trying the RP app with the whole mesocycle bullshit I was weaker then where I left off on strong lifts and had no extra muscle. I the dropped the whole mesocycle thing and just "trained harder than last time" taking 80%+ of sets to failure and started seeing serious progress.

Now I just train as hard as possible without completely destroying my joints. Heavy sets for 4-7 reps in a reverse pyramid structure.

My biceps are lagging, and I think it's from relying too much on cables. They are destroying my elbows and wrists so I haven't been able to fit the volume. I'm transitioning all my biceps and triceps back to barbells for a bit because it's just way too much on my joints right now.

Chest is also lagging but my programming was just terrible. Not enough triceps and not pushing hard enough on bench. Now, for all compounds my first set is always a top set of heavy weight for 2-5 reps and then I do a 5x5 reverse pyramid (all sets to failure, descending weight) and I've been adding about 2.5 kilos to all sets every 2-3 weeks.

How is the progress overall? Anything I am missing that needs improvement? I want to get down to \~145 and see how strong I can get hanging out there. Would be cool to get to a 225 bench, 315 squat 405 DL at 145 and do some local powerlifting for fun. I know that's a lofty goal though. I've been making my best progress ever the last couple months, while cutting 500 calories a day, so I think there is still room to run on the newbie gains.

M/32/5'6"/150 - 153 | How is my 10 month Progress?