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If you're not familiar with how to lift at all, it may be worth a few sessions with an actual personal trainer at the local gym to get the basic movements down. In the beginning, the most important thing is just to get into a routine, lift properly (practice excellent form), eat properly (enough protein to build muscle), and avoid injury. You can follow a program like 5x5 stronglifts to do all that. Once you master the basics and hit your first plateau, then dynamic routines become more important. If you have an iPhone, there's a free app called Shred which is like an automated personal trainer and has an excellent library of dynamic routines.