With this entry, I am going to try to help you so that you do not make any of these mistakes.
1 – Start training without a specific routine: You have to have a routine prepared to do weekly for a certain time. In this way, we will guarantee to optimally train each muscle group to achieve our goal.
2 – Not knowing the correct technique for each exercise: Before starting to perform the exercise we must make sure that we are performing the proper technique. This way we will work better and avoid injuries.
3 – Use inappropriate weights: Because of our desire to compare ourselves with other people who have normally been training for longer, we want to start using the highest possible weights and not harm our ego. One of the consequences of not using the appropriate weights is that we will perform the technique poorly, which will make us progress less and have a greater risk of injury as we said in the previous point.
4 – Don’t worry about our diet: We think that by training we can eat whatever we want “because we have earned it” but this is not the case. Food is essential to progress.
5 – Pay attention to what other people tell us. Many people at the gym think they know more than they really do. Just because you have been training for more years does not mean you will have greater knowledge. Science advances, studies advance, so don’t always listen to what a veteran tells you, they may be wrong.
6 – Perform only aerobic exercise. If your goal is to have a fibrous and muscular body you should use weights. You won’t be able to achieve it with just aerobic exercise.
7 – Use only machines. It has been proven that the best exercises to progress are free and multi-joint weights. So focus your routine on them.
8 – Be more aware of your cell phone than training: Just like in any other physical exercise or even work, you have to be focused on what you are doing. There always has to be a relationship between the body and the mind. So focus on training, you will progress more and avoid injuries.
9 – Thinking that the more training time the better. Sometimes more is not better. The body must be given enough stimulus to progress. If we remain scarce it will be detrimental but if we exceed too much it will also be detrimental.
10 – Forget to hydrate. This is something I always emphasize to my students, bringing a bottle of water before, during and after exercise. We are 70% water, so it is vitally important to stay hydrated. We will perform better, we will recover sooner and we will avoid injuries, among other things.
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