Hello! I weigh around 60 kgs and my height is 5’6 ish I am looking to join gym join for health purposes , i have never seen a gym in life and i need ALL sort of advises as a beginner (specifically for girls) regarding gym etc!
Thanks :D
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24m gay (if that matters) - I don’t really mean like schedule, I can do that and feel pretty confident. But I just got a sub to Gold’s Gym mainly cause it’s the only 24/7 gym and I’d have to work out between the times of 12-3 am.
I have literally never worked out at a gym before and I wasn’t very athletic as a kid so the vibe is very different. But I’m built like an actual twig and whilst I know everyone’s focussed on their own thing; would my being there present like a “wtf” moment for people? Like do I look silly walking in there ?😭
Idrk what kind of attitude I should have about this and just wanted insight from experienced gym-goers
Not a transformation post, just what’s kept me going for 3months:
Fixed days, not “when I feel like it.” [Your days], no negotiating.
A minimum session. On bad days, I do sports, home workouts or simply just push-ups at home. It still counts.
Friends who post their sessions. A few of us share a quick photo after every workout. When everyone else has posted, and I haven’t, skipping feels weird. It doesn’t work for everyone, though; the friends who weren’t already going didn’t start because of it.
For people who went from inconsistent to consistent: what actually flipped it for you?
Right after Thanksgiving in 2025, I joined OTF with a premier, unlimited classes membership. Whatever concern or reservations I had about doing high intensity interval training quickly faded once I started going to classes literally every other day for the next 10 months, all the way up to late August 2026. I attended 153 classes in just about 300 days, and average of going to OTF once every other day. I burned 88,000 cal. I went from 18% body fat and 86% muscle mass down to 13.8% body fat and 91.1% muscle mass.
Sometime in early August, working out and or life caused me to have a seriously strained shoulder/rotator cuff and I stopped going to OTF, saw an orthopedic specialist, had x-rays taken, and they came back negative, and started physical therapy on my rotator cuff area. While I occasionally miss working out and the overall positive feeling that OTF provides, part of me doesn’t miss it and feels like maybe I should walk away at this time. Looking at my stats and percentages and body composition, I don’t think there’s much more body fat to lose, much more muscle mass to gain on a very lean and athletic 183 pound frame and therefore, not many more goals to set. I am open to anyone’s suggestions who might have felt the same way at some point during their OTF experience. Thank you.
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Is there any dopamine release or excitement when working out? Or is it just agony being there? I'm not extremely fit but I do well and feel great getting a good session in. I have to go because it feels great. And by gym, I'm also including any physical activity such as sports.
Give me your favorite and most challenging glute and leg classes!!!! Need to grow the 🍑
Hi I’m a 24 year old male I live in the north York area I’m looking to meet new people to train/workout with I’m open to work at any pace as long as we get some good work done. I’m also flexible so if you any specific dates you want to work out let me know. I’m mostly available in the day but sometimes at nights so let me know
So, I am 60 years old. I exercise 3 times a week about 2.5 hours each session at home. I now find the if I have a 30 minute sleep then I can exercise better and maintain the 2.5 hour routine. Is this normal?
So i’m 20f and just recently getting into working out. I mainly got into it because i’ve been suffering from depression for a bit and I noticed the drastic changes in my mood. So as of right now the main types of exercises I enjoy are hot mat anything. I love hot pilates, hot yoga, hot HIIT and I have no problem doing this 5 days a week for consistent exercise. Now that I see the improvements in my mood, flexibility, stamina, etc I want to slightly get into weight training.
I say slightly because I am not really interested in getting super strong and being able to bench press an impressive amount. I just wanna be more toned and see some changes in my body. The last time I did weight training it was with this trainer who’s clientele were taller, stronger, and focused on getting stronger each day. For context: i’m 5”2 and 130 at my heaviest.
The only reason i’m mentioning this is because I hated working out that way. I would be paired up with women who were bench pressing and dead lifting my weight and expected to do the same. I would leave class feeling weak and sore for multiple days a week rather than energized. In comparison to the hot mat classes where I feel stronger & more energized. So my question is, how do I incorporate weight training but still keep my hot mat heavily in rotation?
In addition: I take the hot mat classes & paid a trainer bc I have no knowledge when it comes to the gym so having someone there making sure my form is right and giving me workout plans alleviates a lot of my distain for the gym. I struggle with feeling like i’m just playing on the machines or with the equipment rather than working out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
For people who work out regularly, do you feel like there are weeks or periods of time where your body doesn’t recover the same way?
Within the past week, I feel like my body isn’t recovering as fast as it usually does from workouts. Everything hurts lol but mainly I’ve done legs maybe twice in the past week and yesterday I was walking in the city and it felt like I was doing leg day.
Someone said maybe they don’t recover faster when the season change or they feel like they’re getting sick. But what are some things that I can incorporate into my lifestyle to help recover faster?
I’ve never felt like this before and I’m pretty active
to be clear: i do probably have some health anxiety and this might be that (i sure hope it is) and not something truly wrong.
i’ve been lifting for around a month, i go 3-4 times a week. today i did push, im sure my form was correct for every thing because my brother is a trainer and he checked. HOWEVER, when i was done with my last set of cable rope pushdowns, my arms felt almost..numb?
i stretched and did 15 min of cardio like normal. it’s been at least an hour now but my arms still feel somewhat numb. im not sure how to describe it, they’re not the typical ‘tingly’ numb like when your arm falls asleep, it’s like i can feel them and feel whatever i touch, but it feels slightly numb and disconnected.
im hoping this is because i maybe didn’t rest enough, or went too hard. or maybe it’s just anxiety/dissociating (although ive never rlly felt this way before). has anyone else experienced this or something similar? :(
Heyyyy I'm 19(F) actually I was thinking of starting to exercise and get into shape. Don't have any specific goals but wanted an hourglass figure and nice shape of hips and chest. I'm very new to it so can someone tell me what exercises i should do ?