I have only worked out for a month (but I have been at the Gym before) although now I am serrious about it.
It's really important to warm up, so I start out by running for a few minutes just to get warmed up.
I then begin by lifting a very easy weight to lift and do 5 reps.
And then since I am very underweight ectomorph and thin and focus on bulding musclemass fast, and not so much on burning fat or any of that (because of the simple reason that I barely have any fat.. xD), I am low reps focused and choose a weight that I can do atleast 6 reps but not more than 8 reps, with some exercises I go with 8-10 instead. A very important thing that I also do, is to keep a notebook with me where I write down the weight and exercise for each week, so that I (if I feel that I can) I increase the weight each week and force my body to adjust and grow. Remember though that the most important thing for result, is what you do AFTER your training. How you eat, how you sleep and making sure that you are recovered to your next workout.
Since your workout seems to be a very high rep based workout, I guess the best thing you could do in order to make sure that you don't hurt yourself, which is probably the biggest misstake people make, and that is to make sure that you don't overdo some exercise, for example by doing too many reps.
If you want to be able to make 15 or 20 reps that is fine although then stick with that and don't go over that limit. Because if you can do more than 20 reps then you have too low weights and by doing more when your muscles hurts you will damage them.
Also remember to use the right technique, if you can't do an exercise with the right technique then you should lower the weights, when I say that my goal is to perform 6-8 reps, I mean with the right technique otherwise you will get hurt.
I am no expert when it comes to this, but I used to be really scared of hurting myself, because of some scary stories my dad told me about his time at the gym.
So I have always tried to not try to care if I use the easiest weight standing next to a guy who does 200 kg in benchpress, and in the meantime I have seen lots of friends damage themself because they wanted to push it too far. And besides if you perform the exercise correctly you will improve faster anyway.
Here is my 1 month result: http://oi50.tinypic.com/2e5jckj.jpg
Although most of it is because of all the food I started eating after starting going to the gym xD
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