First week at the gym

     First week at the gym is a very important week for your body, especially if you are a beginner.

     First week must be a week of habituation. A week when you don't jump directly on working every muscle separate, or follow a special program made by a specialist. In the first week, every time you go to the gym, you must work all your body muscle, not separate, and do it in a fun and nice way.

     You maybe wonder why? The answer is simple: you must not solicitate the body to the full capacity. Besides this, the future muscle development must be based on a very good base.

     This very good base of what i'm talking about can be achieved if:
     1. You stay away of gym machines. The gym machines, usually isolates the body muscle that you want to work. This type of exercises are recomended when you want to define your muscular improvement or to diversify your training program.
     2. Use every time free weights like dumbbells, weightlifting, or your own body weight. Why? Because following this type of training, you use more than a group of muscle to execute it. This type of exercises are known as "compound exercises". This type of exercises are best for creating a good base of your body transformation.

     3. Do a lot of pushups, tractions, jogging.

     4. Do not push yourself over the edge, by charging the dumbbells with more weight that you can handle, because this will lead to future injuries, maybe you can injured yourself in that moment. Especially men, are tempted to do this BIG mistake, by competing with other friends from the gym who lift more that they lifts. Please, take your health in calculations before doing this mistake. I assure you not worth.

     5. Don't go more than 3 days to gym without 1 day break. Remember that your body have to rebuild strength, vitamins and minerals deposits. All this and other medical specifications,  your body needs to recover itself.

     6. It is recommended to sleep at least 8 hours a day. Your nervous system has to recover itself too.

     7. Do not forget to stretch the muscles before exercise. If you read my previous article named "The beginners guide in the gym" you know this already.This always must be the first thing before your gym training.

Remember: do not push your limits and good results don't appear overnight.

Patience, perseverance, and consistency are the key to a perfect body.


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