using smaller weights more often

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  • angermouse
    angermouse Posts: 102 Member
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    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    angermouse wrote: »
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    angermouse wrote: »
    no i dont aim for DOMs it just happens after most leg days. i do go higher weight on legs though so possibly the reason. can i ask what you mean by sub optimal development? i was planning on doing the 5x5 but the area in the gym with the barbells/benches are always busy with the heavy lifters. id look like a flea on that bench if it was free hahaha! im saving to buy a bench and weights for home.
    can you tell me about your work outs, whats your full body push and pull. im learning :) might give me some ideas. i mainly use the machines but if i knew what else to do i could try.

    Don’t get intimidated by the heavy lifters. It’s your gym too, if you need the equipment you have as much right to use it as anyone. There’s no shame in lifting light when you start. A lot of people can’t even lift the empty bar at first.

    in my gym the benches and barbells are all in one area where the power racks and big men are. i go to use the leg press there and there's always someone on the benches and intimidating huge weight plates. i don't even think I've seen a small plate there. most of them take turns on the bench during sets so there's no chance of squeezing in. as i say up thread im saving to get some for home work out.

    I've been in gyms all over the US and in Europe, including 3 that make the lists of most hardcore in America. In all of them I have seen 5 pound plates and in may 2.5 pounders.

    its just an observation. i just see huge plates. but then i don't really look up and about i kind of keep my head down and head for the leg press and get out.
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
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    I was a member of Gold’s Gym a few years ago, which has a rep as a hard core weightlifters gym. I was a super-newbie in there lifting the empty bar and using 5-10 pound plates. I found everyone (men and women, but mostly men) to be really helpful and respectful of me.
  • angermouse
    angermouse Posts: 102 Member
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    whmscll wrote: »
    I was a member of Gold’s Gym a few years ago, which has a rep as a hard core weightlifters gym. I was a super-newbie in there lifting the empty bar and using 5-10 pound plates. I found everyone (men and women, but mostly men) to be really helpful and respectful of me.

    this has gone off topic of training light everyday hahaha.

    just wanted to add that I have social anxiety (well have BPD which comes with many issue) so being in the gym has been a goal in itself. im more comfortable there now and know many faces. but im still easily intimidated or worried, anxious, depending on the moods. so im not one to strike up a conversation easy.
    that with anxiety of doing something wrong and failing is one big brain wreck!

    in all, the big muscle (bench hogging <-- banter!) men are friendly and say hello. its not them its me haha im just too chicken. I just need to gain more confidence.

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