Most gym-goers fail because they have no clear plan. You can't chase weight loss and muscle gain at the same time, like trying to go north and south simultaneously. Pick one primary goal, design everything around it, and stop doing random workouts.
Lack of planning and programming. You want to think of your programming as a compass. North, east, south, west. You can't go north and south at the same time. You're going to be spinning around in circles. So guys, girls, they're coming to the gym and they want to lose weight and build muscle, or they want to build muscle and get stronger, or they want to build muscle while getting better at an Olympic lift. These, you want to think of it with the end in mind. They are different directions on the compass. So some of these things complement, say for example, building muscle and strength, kind of think of it as northeast, you can build muscle and build strength at the same time. But building muscle and getting, say, more coordinated or sport-specific movement don't always correlate to the same thing. So think about that number one outcome that you want, and then plan all your training to be happy achieving that number one outcome.
