New to working out? Congrats! You’ve finally decided to be a part of the gym-goers community. Whether you’ve joined a gym for losing weight, building muscles, or improving your overall health and fitness, you deserve appreciation. It takes an immense amount of determination and commitment to spend several hours every week, working out at the gym. If you’re like most people, you must be feeling both excited and nervous at the same time. It’s common and absolutely normal to feel that way at the beginning of a new journey. But, it’s important to keep your feelings under control – don’t let your nervousness take the best of you or get carried away in your excitement and directly jump to high-intensity exercises on your first day at the gym.
Here are a few gym tips for beginners, given by experts. Take a look to begin this new journey with the right approach, stay motivated and focused, and smash your goals:
- Start with Simple, Compound Moves
Do not overcomplicate your workouts, unnecessarily, by getting impressed with that person in the gym who can do 100 push-ups in one go or go for a 3 mile run on a treadmill like it’s a walk in the park. Start small and listen to your body. Perform basic compound movements to engage your whole body and only move to advanced and isolation exercises once you’ve mastered the basics. While it’s good to push yourself a little harder at the gym, it’s also important to listen to your body and refrain from exerting too much pressure on it, especially when you’re just beginning to workout.
- Do Not Hesitate to Ask
Everyone around you, at the gym, was a beginner once. So, don’t feel shy or embarrassed if you don’t know something. Ask; it’s better than pretending to be a know-it-all and end up injuring yourself or damaging equipment.
- Focus on Your Posture
We all have heard cases where people end up with muscle or spine injuries due to poor posture. Don’t take it lightly; your posture is crucial to both your safety and the effectiveness of the exercise you are performing. Here, again, do not feel shy to take help and ask if you don’t know.
- Be Patient and Keep Going
Everyone desires to get quick results, but the reality of a good, healthy workout is that it takes time to provide results. Do not expect to see a major transformation in your body within a couple of weeks or even a month. If a workout is providing very quick results, there must be something wrong or a catch in it. Remember one of the basic rules of training and workout – the quicker you achieve it, the more easily you’ll lose it. So, don’t lose motivation if you’re not seeing any results. Give it time and keep going.