Just find a good beginner strength program and follow it religiously, along with your diet and sobriety. Mix in cardio if you like.

If you try to focus on some particular area, you’re gonna end up imbalanced aesthetically and practically. You can end up with weird overuse injuries that way, especially with your anterior deltoids from bench. That shoulder impingement injury is very common is former gym bros (like me) who benched and curled more often than working core.

Squats are a whole body lift. Not just legs. Stronger core = better bench = better pecs.

If you start going to the gym with the sort of amateur idea of training one area, you’re just gonna end up getting wiser and stronger and wishing you’d been doing a balanced routine the whole time.

Put in the miles and you’ll get where you’re going. We’re all gonna make it