What do you want to achieve from strength training?
Going to the gym for the first few times can be quite intimidating, especially when you are using weights and are not sure what to do, while everyone else seems to know what they are doing.
By following my simple steps in next week’s column, on how to build and develop a programme, will help keep you on track and help make you feel more confident in the gym.
The most important thing to remember is that the form of your technique and your ability to understand what you are doing and why will play a major role in what you can achieve in terms of goals. Understanding what you want from going to the gym is key in this.
For most of my female clients the general goals at the beginning are for weight loss, while for the men it is weight loss and gaining a little more muscle.
These are standard ideals of what people want to achieve, but these ideals tend to be from people who don’t really have an understanding or knowledge of what strength training can do for them.