Piece of fitness advice, you wish you'd known beforehand ?

myheartsabattleground
myheartsabattleground Posts: 2,040 Member
edited November 13 in Motivation and Support
ready, steady go !

Don't get mixed in with the wrong crowd. People with disordered thinking only want to hurt you instead of help you.

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  • IamUndrCnstruction
    IamUndrCnstruction Posts: 691 Member
    That what works for some may not work for me, and vice versa. There is a lot of judgment on who's woe is "right", don't fall into that trap.
  • cheshirecatastrophe
    cheshirecatastrophe Posts: 1,395 Member
    Overall: "Negative calorie food" is a lie.

    More specifically "fitness": Have a backup hobby for when you push yourself too hard and get hurt.
  • Jolinia
    Jolinia Posts: 846 Member
    Try things you don't think you can do now and then. You might surprise yourself.
  • ibamosaserreinas
    ibamosaserreinas Posts: 294 Member
    Free-weights and dumbells not machines.

    Buy good shoes.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Before what? Starting MFP? Probably that I don't need to do as much cardio as I thought I did. It would have got me into the gym more.
  • Holly92154
    Holly92154 Posts: 119 Member
    I wish I had started strength training immediately. I got so caught up with cardio. Now? I devote two days to body weight exercises- push ups, planks, hand stands, etc.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I also wish I'd known to start lifting sooner. At the time I thought I couldn't because of chronic joint pain. If I'd gone ahead and started that would have gotten better sooner and I'd have had a lot less work to do after reaching goal weight (much easier to just keep it in the first place than to try to put it back on after it's gone).

    *pours one out for the glutes I might have had*
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    I wish I knew more about strength training. I knew about strength training, but I didn't. ergh
  • CJisinShape
    CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
    Probably wouldn't overtrain. It's much better to do a bit and come back in a couple days than do a bunch and you're out for weeks healing.
  • SeizeTheDays
    SeizeTheDays Posts: 10
    That weird foam roller thing in the corner of the gym isn't weird. It's heaven in a cylinder after a work out.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    As you get older you have to do more---not less.
  • palwithme
    palwithme Posts: 860 Member
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    As you get older you have to do more---not less.

    SO true!
  • emilympyatt
    emilympyatt Posts: 1 Member
    Diet is an important part of fitness. You can not out work your diet.
  • toolzz
    toolzz Posts: 163 Member
    Not understanding the amount of effort you must exert to actually burn a decent amount of calories. People grossly overestimate their calorie burns...you don't burn calories just because you were physically IN the gym for an hour..you need to be hauling a** the whole time. That said, do it for health, mental well being, a rosy complexion...any calorie burn is a bonus.

    CICO - do it with food
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