MinuteMan said:Hello all...
Hello. Do you know you just wandered into usenet? This particular
group is heavily infested by trolls and only about one answer in 10 is
going to be on-topic and useful to you. Good luck figuring out which
posts are the useful ones. :-)
Quoted message said:I plan to join a gym soon, with the intent of "getting in shape".
Yup. If you want to change you're going to have to change.
Quoted message said:This is wehre my confusion starts as I never went to a gym and am affraid
to look like a total dork, because I don't know what exercises I need to
do and how to do them.
There are lots of ways to move your body. I think the best idea is to
go with some plan - any plan - and just try it. Three or four months
later change what you're doing to something different and give that a
try. An excellent starting place is Stumptuous because she will give
you a few workout plans, some stuff on how to eat, some stuff on what
NOT to do, an idea of what's [censored] and myth... she tells the real deal.
Her website is http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html. She's
chick-centric, but none of the exercises she offers refer to vaginal
muscles: men have all the same parts she's talking about.
Quoted message said:I want to build up some muscle mass, strenghten my
back/stomach(I have back problems) and overall increase my physical
health level. The gym I'd go to is at work and there is no trainer.
An excellent resource for learning how an exercise is supposed to look
and seeing which muscles it works is http://www.ExRx.net
A book I found useful was Bill Phillip's Body for Life. It's more of an
intermediate program, maybe what you change to after you've been working
out the kinks of getting exercise regular, but it shows a variety of
exercises as well.
Quoted message said:What is it I'd need to do, light weights or run arround on a threadmill?
Should these be combined?
I have no idea of what shape you're in now, but a 10-15 minute cardio
warm-up (not killing yourself - walk if you need to) followed by about
45 minutes of squatting, deadlifting, benchpressing and some ab work
would be a decent starting routine for you.
Don't try to lift to failure of the muscles - only lift until failure of
FORM. If you can't do the rep with good form, stop. No hip flings
during bicep curls, no grunting arch during benchpressing, no tipping
down of your butt in a squat. Lift heavy, but lift carefully. You
ought to sweat. You ought to think this is hard. You ought to be sore
for a couple of days after you start.
This is great fun. You're the owner of a human body, it's wonderful to
learn how to work it. Congratulations on starting out.
Dally
Quoted message said:
Thanks,
Charles
