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Weightlifting for Beginner

  • 27-08-2013 10:38am
    #1
    Backstreet Moyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,122 ✭✭✭


    My question may be vague but i have never lifted weights before and i am joining the gym later. I have decided to get into weightlifting and i am clueless about how to start. I have never lifted weights once in my life and i am nervous starting in the gym and looking clueless about what to do. I could try google but i thought i might get better answers here. Could anybody recommend a program to start with that will help get me started.


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  • #2
    connollys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭connollys


    just get one of the trainers to show you around and throw together a program, show you how to do it etc, it probably wont be great but will get you used to the place and when feeling more comfortable and confident you can see about changing up the program.


  • #3
    Backstreet Moyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,122 ✭✭✭Backstreet Moyes


    connollys wrote: »
    just get one of the trainers to show you around and throw together a program, show you how to do it etc, it probably wont be great but will get you used to the place and when feeling more comfortable and confident you can see about changing up the program.

    Ye i was thinking that but i really am as weak as a kitten and i don't want a trainer watching me struggle starting off. I was looking at this program and i am thinking of starting with this http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/12-week-beginners-training-routine.html


  • #4
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Nuts102 wrote: »
    Ye i was thinking that but i really am as weak as a kitten and i don't want a trainer watching me struggle starting off. I was looking at this program and i am thinking of starting with this http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/12-week-beginners-training-routine.html
    If you tell the trainer that you've never lifted weights, they will start you off on a very light weight and gauge from there. You're not going to be handed 25kg dumbbells and asked to curl them. The trainer was once at a point where they had never lifted. They weren't always lifting heavy weights.

    Trust me, your best bet is to just say it to the trainer rather than try and follow something online and get yourself into bad habits that will manifest themselves through injuries.


  • #5
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Do starting strength or stronglifts. They are simple beginner programs that focus on linear progression of compound lifts. Get the trainer to walk you through the lifts themselves.


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