tips for beginners that no one told you.

Let's have a little fun and add some potentially useful tips that you wish someone might have told you before you learned them the hard way.

Never and I mean never fart during your first squat or deadlift rep unless its a 1rm and you have a chance to get away. This is extra important if you tried preworkout powder before you started working out.
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  • Goober1142
    Goober1142 Posts: 219 Member
    tracymegan wrote: »
    Eons ago, I was a heavy lifter, so have lottos thickness and muscle mass...even though I have padded the crap out of that mass. In seeing a trainer, I changed my routine from 10-12 reps of 3 sets to 20 reps of 4 sets..no breaks and stepped training! Cannot believe the changes!!! Huge in literally weeks! Have lost 5 inches on each thigh!

    Ooh, I'm trying this!
  • mysteps2beauty
    mysteps2beauty Posts: 493 Member
    Great information, everyone....

    but these really speak to me and getting me back on track after Halloween binge of a week.
    If you can't take eating a deficit any more, mentally that is - move up to maintenance for a week or however long and just concentrate on fitness. Dieting for months on end can be exhausting and instead of giving up it's okay to take a break from eating to lose as long as you keep logging and keep your work up at the gym. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
    You aren't going to burn off that candy (or whatever treat) by getting on the treadmill for 30 minutes. Fit that candy (or whatever treat) into your daily, or weekly, allowance.
    JerSchmare wrote: »
    It’s a lifetime pursuit, not a goal to stop when you get there. Slow and steady win. Slow progress is still progress.

    Getting back to it....!
  • kidrauhldrew
    kidrauhldrew Posts: 37 Member
    I learned to not skip out on the exercises I don't like. I never enjoyed running and would always go with another alternative for cardio that was easier for me. I realized that I only never enjoyed it because I was never good at it, not for any other reasons. So I need to get off my behind and run, improve myself to the point that I can say I don't suck at it anymore and actually find the fun in going out for a run.