[kalicokat]

I've always loved things like running. I've recently been going to the gym with my boyfriend and his brother and starting to do weight routines with them. I dont have a problem with them because, well, I dont have any idea what i'm actually doing. lol. We'll do one thing, i'll get told what i'm working and shown how to do it as well as what its called, and by the next thing... I've already forgotten everything they've told me about the first.

I went out and bought this book (actually, TRIED to so I could skim through it first. No book store in town had it so I had to order it online. grr) thinking that it would explain a lot.

It sort of does. I understand just about EVERYthing in it... until I get to the workouts. I was expecting something set up completely different from these charts that are put in front of me. I have no clue what any of it means. (so i know i've done romanian deadlifts before just because I started laughing and asking if we were lifting dead vampires instead of american weights. :-P)
I've gathered that the first one MAY be to do 2 sets of squats. Then either 2 sets of pushups followed by 2 sets of rows, or maybe its a set of pushups, a set of rows, then repeat. But that doesn't make sense to me. I've never seen anyone use two different pieces of equipment back and forth like that(which you'd have to for the shoulder press/lat pulldowns), without someone else getting irritated that you're taking up TWO machines for however long those sets last instead of just one.....
Plus theres this "workout 1,2. 3,4..." stuff. So do I go through the WHOLE workout, then go back and do it again to make a total of four times? Or am I doing the squats for 2 sets, resting.. doing 2 more sets, resting.. 3 sets.. resting.. 3 more... resting.
Gah i'm SOOO confused! Maybe its just because i've never seen a workout program like this before.
Can anyone maybe breakdown the whole first workout for me?
I'm talking the WHOLE workout, listing what i'm supposed to be doing, in words instead of letters and numbers?
I'm dying to try to start this, but I want to know i'm doing it RIGHT instead of just how I think i'm doing it.

And yes. I read the pages before the charts and saw the practice one and everything, and I still dont get it. I hope this is normal for someone whos never seen this stuff before and i'm not just an idiot. :-(