Have you decided to start training but have never joined a gym before? Let’s see where to start.
L’physical exercise is very important not only to improve your aesthetics but also and above all for your health. If you have decided to start training but are starting from scratch, you absolutely must do one thing first. It’s done: you finally made up your mind.
Convinced by your best friend or your partner, you went and bought the latest model of leggings and the most fashionable shoes of the moment and now you are ready to enter the gym for the first time. Yes but: where do you start? Doing sport is important for our health and, let’s not hide, also for our physical form.
From a fitness point of view, playing sports allows us to burn calories and slim down our body but without losing muscle mass. As far as health is concerned, however, the benefits are many. Exercise helps prevent or counteract overweight, type 2 diabetes, cholesterol, hypertension and much more. However if you start from scratch and are not followed by a personal trainer, you run the risk of hurting yourself. To prevent this from happening you should do a certain thing.
Training: do this thing, it is essential for your health
You’ve finally decided to start training. Excellent: the benefits are many. To avoid getting injured and hurt, however, you definitely need to start with some exercises. Let’s see which ones.
The body is divided into muscle groups. Usually when you train in the weight room or free body, you train one or two muscle groups at a time such as arms and shoulders or legs and buttocks. Unless, of course, you want to do a total body workout and train multiple body parts at the same time.
If you are a beginner and are not followed by a personal trainer, first you need to train your core, that is, the muscles of the abdomen, torso and back. Strengthening this muscle group is essential to strengthen the muscles in that area and thus avoid hurting yourself when, for example, you lift the barbell to train your shoulders or legs or buttocks.
THE best exercises to train your core and strengthen the muscles in that area are these:
- Planck. Shoulders in line with the pelvis which must never sag downwards.
- Lateral planck. In this case you must rest on one arm and raise your pelvis as much as possible from the ground.
- Leg Raise. With your back flat on the ground and your shoulders raised, raise your legs as high as you can and keep your arms extended along your body.
- Hollow. Stretch your arms and legs as much as possible and lift them both off the ground as much as you can.
- Dragon flag. Lying on the ground face up with your hands holding onto a backrest, bring your legs to your chest and lift your pelvis off the ground until your back is perpendicular to the floor.
