Weightlifting Adventure

Hi !!  My name is Ethan and I am partaking in a weight lifting adventure.  There are many great advantages to weight lifting, but also it is fun to learn about.  There are a lot of buff dudes who make videos for youtube with a lot of views, and Ill bet they make some $$$ off it, actually, cause those dudes are like getting millions of views.  A lot of them have good advice, and stuff I hear that I will try and put into my workout.  I ususally work out twice a week, sometimes on Monday and Wednesday and sometimes on Monday and Thursday.  Besides that I will shoot hoops around sometimes, or if I'm at a nice point in life maybe do some yoga.  Honestly, I don't know, but I look a lot better than when I started!  I think I got a bench press about 2 years ago, and a squat rack about a year ago, and its probably around the time the squat rack showed up that I actually started working out with any regularity.  I dont know, whatever, its a part of my life now.  I would definitely say I am a novice, anyways here's my current stats.

age: 31, Height , 6'5", weight, around 178

working weight:
BENCH 115
CURL 25
ROW 2 45s and change, maybe 125?
SQUAT 50
DEADLIFT 50

I just started deadlifting -- like really Ive done it twice so far.  So far also only I have been using barbells.  I am going to go see a trainer and get some proper form tips for it, but I thought it was a light enough weight that I wouldn't be able to hurt myself, although I am still testing it out, especially in regards to wanting to have a strong lower back, and not injure myself in that area.

I also wait tables 4 days a week, so that is good aerobic exercise in general.

So that's a bit of the tale of the tape for where I am out, I'm sure I will get some more of these thoughts out of my brain coming up on how interesting a journey its been.  I kinda want to just keep diarizing about it as if anyone will read this but myself, bwahaha.

Anyways if you are that other person ("the other") feel free to leave comments.  Mainly I want to just have an archive of links to videos I found helpful for some reason or another.

this guy is kinda nuts, but I am going to incorporate what he does starting at 5:40.  One issue I am dealing with right now is creating a warm-up routine that will allow me to lift better.  I am starting from basically doing nothing, but I also found this good one for deadlifts.  Learning this shit now while my working weights are light I think will pay off later on, if I get bigger, but also if my weight stays the same I think it is just a good idea, and I am definitely keeping an eye on it.

So these exercises I am going to try before my first bench press, because one thing Ive noticed is that my first set is harder to pump out than my 2nd, so I think that means I am at a weight where I would benefit from warming up more before the first set.

chicken flexes for rear delts and rotator cuff -- 2 bench press warmups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzzum8xCU_w