How to get stronger in the gym?

Are you getting enough protein and rest? It's important to give your body time to recover, you build the muscle as your body repairs itself. You should aim for 55-60g a day, maybe more as you're exercising.

I think its better to do shorter high-intensity sets, so doing 5 sets with 15 reps with a heavy weight, rather than 3 sets with 30 reps at a lighter weight.

Other than eat more, anything else? I'm still going to feel dead/tired with my other workouts

I do starting strength and look breathtaking. Just don't get fat and you look like a greco-roman statue.

I've never been a fan of the most popular forms of 5x5, just never seemed to work very well for me for some reason. However, I've been using Vince Gironda's version for the past couple months and I'm loving it. Very simple version, you use around 75% of your 1RM on all the sets and rest only 30 seconds between sets. If you can complete all the sets of 5 then you add weight on the next workout. Doesn't sound optimally conducive to strength gains due to the rests being so short, but I'm adding weight to every exercise, every workout atm and getting all the reps. Looking thicker all over as well.

Are you getting enough protein and rest? It's important to give your body time to recover, you build the muscle as your body repairs itself. You should aim for 55-60g a day, maybe more as you're exercising. I think its better to do shorter high-intensity sets, so doing 5 sets with 15 reps with a heavy weight, rather than 3 sets with 30 reps at a lighter weight.

Read this https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3014757 Omar Isufs channel is a great place for the beginner tbh.

Apparently for strength you wanna do 5 reps with high weights. 5 sets of 5 is a popular training style. I've never trained for strength but that's common for powerlifting. You won't die benching with the bar, you have to bring the bar down over your chest not your neck. If you fail a rep all you have to do is roll the bar down your body. I don't bench though I also use dumbbells because they're better, you get a way better contraction and you can bring them out wide and sort of hyperextended at the bottom like a semi-fly and you get an ENORMOUS stretch that you absolutely can't get with the bar. You might also get better activation angling the dumbbells very slightly rather than horizontal. Like holding them at 25 degrees or so. I personally gained strength fine doing standard 3 x 8 sets. When I could do more than that I upped the weight. But whatever you decide on, make sure you do the compounds: Shoulder press, bar or dumbbells. I have got really good burn from overhead press with the bar standing, but for some reason NEVER get that anymore so do seated now. Bench with bar or dumbbells. Squats. Deadlifts. Deadlifts are definitely fantastic for your overall strength and you might see posture gains. If you care about your physique though, wear a belt when you start doing a decent amount of weight to keep your waist small. Also wear a belt if you squat a decent amount of weight. I don't like seated row. Try face pulls (one of the most important exercises you can do btw, ALWAYS include them in your routine - zero point having nice muscles if you walk hunched over) and standard bent-over rows. There are several variations of bent-over rows depending on how close you keep your elbows to your body, and they target different areas of the back. They are extremely effective and activate the muscle hard. Pull-ups and pulldowns you won't feel it as much as rows. Also try forced reps. When you're failing, say on dumbbell curls or whatever, cheat it up and then try to let it down as slowly as possible. Without a spot this is very helpful. If you are doing some one handed exercises you can use your free hand to physically move the weight to the top of the motion and then let go and let it down as slow as you physically can.

Thats mad. Well done- just go as often as u can. Also try getting a gym instructor or someone who knows how to use free weights at the beginning, then u can start going with a few of ur mates and compete. Try spend at least an hour each time u go and work on opposing muscles or muscles in the same area- 5/6 sets each and many different exercises and machines. Also go from your heaviest weights with enough reps to lower weights with most reps.

you weren't vague enough pretty sure I know your name and address now

Eat something before hand (also a banana) with enough water during workout. And leave cardio to the end so u dont tire urself out.

increase weight or reps by a tiny amount each week. After a few weeks take a week off and lower the weight down a bunch. Then go back to the normal weight next week. Do that for the rest of your life lol.

The average person eats more protein than that per day

Sets of 15 aren't going to build any great deal of strength. If you can do 15 reps then it's far from being a heavy weight, this would generally be considered light weight and high reps as a lifter. 30 reps is pure cardio.

The average person eats more protein than that per day

Sets of 15 aren't going to build any great deal of strength. If you can do 15 reps then it's far from being a heavy weight, this would generally be considered light weight and high reps as a lifter. 30 reps is pure cardio.

I didn't mean like exactly 15 reps, I meant that its better to do more sets with less reps with a higher weight. Like its better to do less reps and to be tired at the end than it is to just do loads of reps and a weight that's too low for you. Short high-intensity sets are better than longer low-intensity sets.

depends imo

when I first started lifting typically I would do 15-20 reps till failure. It was quite a long while before I discovered that I was supposed to lift much heavier than that for gaining muscle.

however, during that time I still made reasonable gains..

imo if you lift the weight until failure you will still make decent gains

I saw a study on this too. where they got guys to lift lower reps and got guys to lift higher reps until failure and apparently they noticed little difference in muscle growth