11/29/2023 0 Comments Gym crowded resolutioners misc![]() ![]() Figure out if you want to focus on strength, bodybuilding, or athletic performance….or maybe you simply want to look better naked. You will quickly lose motivation if you have no other goal than to show up wander around, sit on a few machines and call it a day. Or at least have a goal and figure out the plan from there. Learn proper technique and form, rep ranges, effective amount of working sets and recovery techniques. Instead of worrying about the amount of weight you can lift, how fast you are or whatever it is you are training….learn. I know I am far more impressed with someone benching 105 lbs with full range of motion than half repping 135 lbs. First of all your progress will suffer by attempting to do to much to fast and secondly, no one gives a shit that you can’t bench press the same amount of weight as them. Everest incline, but that doesn’t mean you should. Yes, you will see people lifting heavy ass weight, or running on the treadmill at Mt. This may be one of the biggest mistakes and will often result in injury. I say welcome and here is some advice that may help you New Years resolutioners. ![]() As someone who has spent so much time on my own health and fitness it makes me happy to see someone else start that journey, even though many will not make it a lifetime commitment like I have. I am always glad to see new members at the gym. So let’s help push them, not push them away.I have seen a lot of talk, as I do every year, about gyms becoming crowded with new members with new resolutions. I’m sure there was a moment in every gym goers life that they made the decision to change their life. I promise, the world, nor the gym, revolves around just your gains.Įmbrace the fact that people are trying to better themselves. Go at 4 in the morning before work or go in at 11 at night before bed. If you don’t want to be in a packed full gym, then switch the time that you go to the gym. We should embrace the New Years resolutioners because what makes our goals that much more important than theirs? I mean honestly is there a reason? “Well I’ve been here longer than they have,” is not a good answer. Why should we shun the people that could potentially share the same passion as us? What I also want is for other people to do the same. I want them to look back to when they first started going to the gym and be thankful that I was there to support them. I want to make a difference in people’s lives, I want to help people. By February 1st, I would say close to 90% of them have already given up at the gym. There is one thing in common at each of these gyms: right after the New Year, they are packed full of unfamiliar faces. I’ve worked out at Gold’s Gyms out west, small local gyms, small university gyms, and the biggest college gym in the nation the Ohio State University’s. ![]() Hell, even you were the new guy at your current gym. Every familiar face you see at the gym was once a new face. Would you still shun the new people at the gym if a surge of them came in July? I doubt it. Business would be great through December and January, but it would be ideal to have that kind of income year round. I’ll be honest with you, my life goal is to one day own my own gym. What if the gym rats, gym bros, personal trainers, squat girls, powerlifters, crossfitters, and all other demographics of the gym, took one New Years resolutioner under their wing and showed them the ropes? What if we properly taught them how to do a back squat or corrected their curl form? What if we told them they shouldn’t be doing the same workout Sunday through Monday? What do you think would happen? ![]() Maybe we could just go to an always crowded gym because that’s the norm. If they weren’t shunned away maybe they wouldn’t be the people that leave the gym crowded for a few weeks. I want to embrace the New Years resolutioners and make them gym regulars. I would guess that they quit showing up because of negative side remarks and not feeling welcome. Not to be seen again until the next New Year. (Duh.) These people usually leave the gym packed for the first few weeks of the New Year and then slowly drift away. So for starters, what are the New Years resolutioners? Well, the New Years resolutioners are the people that join the gym after the New Year to fulfill their New Years resolutions. I have, in summary, been an asshole to the New Years resolutioners. I have been the guy that laughed at the new guy at the gym when he tried to bicep curl the leg extension machine. I have been the guy that got annoyed that someone was doing a full arm workout in the only squat rack in the gym. I have been the guy that shunned the New Years resolutioners. Before I get started, I would like to start out by saying that I have been the exact person that I am calling out in this post. ![]()
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