4 Lessons You Must Learn in Your Weight Room
By Gerald Fanning on May 5, 2014
Figure out Base Movement
- When you go to weight room, you go through difference experiences and meet different people and all of them have some distinct qualities and the movement in which they are able to perform better than the others. Likewise, you also have your base movement; if you are still unaware of that move, you must try to find it as this is what will give you the most out of your workouts.
- This base movement always helps you in everything you do and it must be included in your training routine. You might not be performing well or might have got stuck into a rut and this is the time where that particular movement will bring you out because it always works in your case.
What Actually Works For You?
- When you go online and search for what works best for you, you will get confused because there will be different opinion from different people. Some might be suggesting using a particular workout while another might be opposing the same workout. This all is just so confusing and now what you need to do is to try everything.
- You are in weight room and have access to different types of equipment, if someone suggest you something, don’t think, just do it and observe yourself if it really works for you or not. If it is working, do it as long as it helps you improve your physical appearance without harming your gains.
Experience Working with Different People
- In weight room, you will get opportunity to train with different people from beginners to advanced trainees. Don’t confine yourself to few people but work with everyone from time to time. Attend different classes and different gyms and train under the guidance of different coaches. This seems to be a little crazy but working with a number of people will help you understand how they are working, how they are improving and what is working for them best.
- Sometimes, working at the same gym for a long time with the same people bring you to a rut where you don’t find any more growth and improvement in muscles. This is the time when you really need to bring changes to your training regimen. If you join other groups of people, you will be able to get their feedback on your overall progress.
Try to Improve Current Movements
- Sometimes, you get stuck into a movement that does not get improved. Now the simplest solution to get rid of it is to find an alternative method so you can get desired level of strength. However, the better way is that you should try to find the solution yourself by spending little more time in the same movement and try to improve it.
- Just replacing your movement with an alternative solution may create more problems for you as you will have to get a fresh start with it and you might have to spend even more time to understand how to perform it with proper form.