You Aren't Actually Training.
Training is extra popular right now. Everybody and their mom want to train, has training advice, and can give you a three minute video depicting their training. This may sound like a plus, particularly for someone who sells training programs, but that isn't necessarily the case. Just take a look at your Instagram feed. Click on the first training video you come across, and you'll find 27 comments from people tagging their friends.
"We HAVE to do this!"
No, you don't.
It's a good bet that it won't help you at all, or if it does, it's only because you're so untrained that you'd probably get that much stronger just by watching Cliffhanger. You already know my thoughts on doing the same workouts as your friends, so we don't need to go into that.
What you want to do is workout. This isn't training. Two totally different animals.
Semantics, you say. Blah blah blah. But for me, these are important semantics. So what's the difference?