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Follow these tips to make your exercises in gym more effective
Like any other strenuous activity that you might engage yourself in, there can be unprecedented injuries caused by the wrong use of equipments when you go to the gym. It’s not something that you have to be too afraid of, but it is important once the consequences of such practices are thought of.
Lucknow: Like any other strenuous activity that you might engage yourself in, there can be unprecedented injuries caused by the wrong use of equipments when you go to the gym. It’s not something that you have to be too afraid of, but it is important once the consequences of such practices are thought of. The gym can also be a place of great distress when the weights accidentally fall on your feet, or when you can’t continually lift your weight while doing a bench press or even when you accidentally turn the treadmill too fast to a point where you might fall off. So in this case, various gym precautions should be taken.
Things to Learn
- Do exercise with proper form. Study your body language when you are working out.
- Feel the targeted muscle stretch and contract.
- The first five things you need to learn is:
Squat.
Deadlift.
Rows/ Pull-ups, chin-ups.
Overhead press/ Military Press.
Leave ego and have patience
- Leave your ego at the gym’s doorstep.If you lift with your ego you are not going to gain anything.
- Do not go for the heavy weights from the day 1.
- Use the weight you are comfortable with and then slowly increase them to put pressure on the muscles.
- Stop comparing yourself with other people in the gym. You are unique in your way.
- Do not expect immediate and fast results.
- Have patience, work hard and will achieve what you want.
Gym Advice
- Do not take any advice from anyone excepting your personal trainer, who knows about you and trains you.
- Do your own exercise rather than receiving knowledge from the ‘bros’ in the gym.
Etiquette
- Do not be a "jerk".
- Do not leave weights where ever you want.
- Do not hijack the machines or any particular exercise stations and stand their talking to the bros without doing much.
- Remember one thing that you go gym to workout not to chit chat or make friends.
Rest and Recovery
- Give sufficient rest to the body.
- Eat good foods based on what your goals are i.e caloric deficit for weight loss, surplus for weight gain etc.
- Have a good warm up routine before you do the day’s workout.
- Have a good sleep.
- Keep your body hydrated.
- There are good days and bad days at the gym.
- Take it easy and have fun working out.
Sakshi Chaturvedi
A journalist, presently working as a Sub-Editor at newstrack.com.
