Getting started

[brockovrs]

I've always thought I was unfit, so I've decided to do something about it & joined a gym a couple of weeks ago - helpfully a mate goes to the same gym so I have him as guidance/advice.

I had no idea that I was *that* bad, but it turns out that my strength is pretty much none existent & cardio is embarrassingly pathetic.

I'm 26, 6ft 2 & in the region of 18 stone. I'm aiming to (eventually!!) get down to around 16 stone, be able to benchpress 100kg (Currently struggling to do 3x10 sets of 20kg) & generally look half decent.

Please tell me it gets easier, as every time I go to the gym it hurts like a bd & makes me feel quite crap!

How do you stay motivated?

[taylor172]

youll soon learn to love the post gym feeling, it means youve worked hard I dont gym much but run alot and im not happy unless i feel ive really pushed myself.

[anonymous-user]

Keep weighing yourself and recording it. Perhaps log what you're eating using something like myfitnesspal.com (there are iphone etc apps for all this stuff)

Record your weight at set times on set days, twice a week or so.

[brockovrs]

After I do weights based stuff, I hurt for a couple of days but it feels alright.

Last night I did some cardio (10 mins on a spinning bike being shouted at by some bint on the tv screen infront of it, 1000m on rowing machine, then a few other bits), After rowing 1000m in 4 mins I was dying on my arse, took me absolutely ages to catch my breath and my pulse was going mental, which then meant I struggled to do anything else - I'm hoping that gets better!

[dirty boy]

I'd echo the log what you do post.

And don't beat yourself up if you don't surpass the weights you did the week before.

Your progress should be fairly quick to start with, then things taper off and require a bit more thought/effort to continue making progress.