The 5 Most Common Beginners’ Workout Mistakes
If you have started to work out, but don’t really see any progress, it’s possible you are doing one, or even more of the following beginners workout mistakes. This list touches on the most common ones and also the ones that have the highest affect on you, if you are doing them, and eliminating these mistakes from your routine can make the difference between no change at all and the body you desire.
1. Training too much
I see this all the time… People neglecting their health for years and then finally deciding it’s time to stop, turn around and finally do something for your health. Some of them become real “gym rats”, spending every day in the gym, working out for hours and hours, thinking the results will be that much faster if they invest more time and energy into it. While that may be the case in many other fields, it is not so when you are starting to work out. Your body grows and becomes stronger when you are resting, so stressing your body for hours every single day will actually have a negative impact on your overall health and physique. Do your beginners workout for max 3 times per week, and make it short. It is not the length of the exercise that affects the muscle growth, it is the intensity!
2. Not advancing in your training
As you progress through your workouts and build some strength, the old weight will no longer stimulate your body enough to cause production of muscle tissue, meaning the stronger you get, the heavier the weights must get to keep your body improving. Either try to do a few more reps or increase the weight a little bit each time you train, to keep efficiently stimulating your body. Oh, and on that note, make sure to keep progress on how many reps you could do and what weight did you use, so you have a clear record of how you are improving, helping you to figure where you need to improve or make changes.
3. Sacrificing your form
You see some people pulling and straining themselves like mad, just to finish that last repetition. NEVER do that. It does more harm than good as it highly increases the likelihood of an injury. Always keep a good form, and the best advice on how to do that is to slow everything down a bit. Make slow movements, focusing on the muscles that should be working with that particular exercise and only keep doing the exercise as long as you can maintain your form.
4. Not eating right
Just like every building needs a foundation to be strong, every beginners workout needs a good diet to make it effective. Taking the sugars and refined grains out from your diet, consuming enough high quality proteins and healthy saturated and unsaturated fats, topped with lots and lots of veggies will be the fundamental building block for anyone who wants a healthier lifestyle.
5. Not working on your legs.
If the diet is a foundation to healthy living, then legs are a foundation to a good beginners workout. Heavy leg exercises like squats and deadlifts sure are harder to do than, for example, biceps curls, but also produce way bigger results. Working on your legs has a beneficial effect to your whole body, by both using up more calories than the smaller muscles and producing good hormones that stimulate fat loss and muscle synthesis.
Tilen Krivec is a health and fitness adviser, specialized on teaching beginners the basics of workout, fitness, and proper nutrition.
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