Nobody is born knowing how to train, that is why many opt to join the gym. Who does not trust that in a sports center they know about physical activity? The truth is that sometimes they give us wrong advice and that we must know how to interpret it in order to train intelligently. Eye! We are not referring to the fact that the monitors are the ones who give us inadvisable guidelines, many times we rely on the experiences that the machine or classmates tell us.
We tell you some tips that are not all true that they want us to see.
You can get into any class, whatever your level
Error. Not all of us start from the same physical condition and it is something that must be taken into account before getting into an hour of spinning or bodypump. Your instructors will naturally encourage you to try the classes with the intention of motivating yourself, but you need to ask them for advice to find out if they are in adequate physical shape.
Crawl into a class for an hour and be half dead within 20 minutes. It can cause frustration and demotivation. In addition, you can increase the injury occurrences because of wanting to give everything without having a necessary resistance.
Normally, your instructor will tell you that you can enter the class, adapt it to your pace and stop when you need to.
The more weight you lift, the more your muscles will grow.
There are two types of people: those who shy away from lifting too much weight because they think they are going to become the Hulk (usually women) and those who overdo it because they think they will evolve faster that way.
When we start in the gym, the weight we lift is rather low, but we do between 15 and 20 repetitions, helping our muscle mass to grow quickly. If we started lifting a lot of weight, it would be impossible to perform that many repetitions and, in addition, we would get frustrated.
Increasing your muscle volume will depend on the intensity at which you train and your diet.
There is only one type of base exercise
We have already shown you on more than one occasion the infinite possibilities that exist to perform squats, sit-ups, planks, push-ups, burpees, etc. It is true that they all start from a basic movement, but the modifications will make you work other areas of the body and reach your goals more quickly.
For example, you have jump squats, isometrics, with a kettlebell, with a lateral lunge, on one leg, with support... When you discover all the varieties that exist, the classic ones end up knowing little.