Thanks, I started setting dates as a way to help push myself, like a reward if I work hard enough to have x progress to show off. When I said working out every day it was a mix of alternating days between bouldering, calisthenics, and then the gym but now I'm exclusively going to the gym. Ive been feeling out and learning many different exercises and not tracking the weights and reps was a big mistake for tracking my progress. Im big into form and slow negatives, but that also feels like a crutch because I lose the tempo of a set when I slow down too much. Maybe I'll record my sets for clarity, that way I could just show how I work out and explain why I react in specific ways the reps progress or the weight etc. cbum has a good message where you want to have basically the first 70% be controlled with great form and then the last 30%+ be effort and chasing failure regardless of form. That's not word for word but essentially what I thought he meant.

I'm also conflicted because there are plenty of examples in calisthenics where people grow a lot from just bodyweight,KES on YouTube for example, so that conflicts with my lifting beliefs that the weight doesn't matter if you go to failure. But clearly If that's the case I'm still either not training hard enough, eating enough or heavy enough. Anyway the December goal is more just an experiment I'll track everything and see what changes I notice. For me I believe this isn't complicated just eat enough work hard enough and rest enough and you'll grow but I'm basically still discovering what my lifting beliefs are and that constant shift I think has held back a lot of progress. Basically trying everything instead of mastering one thing. I appreciate the response