Programming Considerations - Part 1

This is a question i get asked regularly is how do i learn how to wrote programs, i always answer "its pretty simple, you just need to know a few things"

Heres my list of questions i ask -
gender
age
occupation
level of stress
work hours
amount of sleep per night
personal life
social life
drug use (recreation/ped/current/previous)
sports (current/previous)
training history
current training split
injuries
diet
how many days per week can you make it to the gym

Why?
Gender - females can tolerate more volume and frequency than males, females have less upper body mass on average.

Age - a 21yo is going to be able to tolerate more training than a 50yo, given there maybe exceptions but the rest of the questions will separate this.

Occupation - a removalist may need less volume and intensity or more frequent deloads than a accountant.

Level of stress/work hours/social/personal life - all integrate, i.e; if the person owns their own business, has just had a baby, the wife has is highly stressed. you can pretty much guarantee the volume and intensity that can be tolerated at this point is going to be pretty low.
Same goes for the young 21yo that goes out both friday and saturday night to party by default even if they aren't taking drugs or drinking alcohol they are going to be loosing roughly a nights sleep each week which will significantly impact recovery when compared to someone who doesn't.

Drug use - again may tie in with above but someone who's on anabolics is going to be able to ramp up intensity through out the program much quicker than a non PED user, conversely someone using speed/coke/ectasy etc on the weekends is by default going to be under eating and under sleeping.

Sports/training history/current training split - a 25yo who competed in track and field since they were 13yo and has been lifting weights in an s&c program for roughly the same time is going to be able to tolerate a fuck tonne more volume, than Betsy who didn't compete in any sports and has been doing crossfit for the past 6 months. also if the person plays a sport recreational or professionally its again going to affect how many days per week and volume can be done.

Diet - someone who has eaten quality food and drinks plenty of water/fluids will be able to tolerate more training than someone who misses half their meals, has poor protein consumption and the only water they see is in the shower.

Injuries - pretty self explanatory, you may have to work around something for a certain period of time.  But also a common injuries is going to give an indicator of weak areas that need to be addressed with in the program. Generally the injury aries from poor quality of tissue i.e; adhesions/knots/tightness or inherent weakness of a muscle or group of muscles that never gets rectified due to high level of form breakdown.

How many days per week can you make it to the gym per week - 5days maybe optimal for the individual but their schedule may not allow for this and you will need to design a program that best suits what the individual can achieve.