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So four weeks into the new year most regulars are at my gym and two of the 50 new people stayed.

Maybe someone is here who is one of the vanished people that I can "bait" back to the gym, atleast is my hope. So now real talk:

BRO, it's four weeks. FOUR WEEKS. You can't and I can't fix a trashy one decade lasting diet. You can't get from skinny to strong in four weeks. You can't get from obese to lean in four weeks. You didn't notice change after four weeks because your scale at home has the same high number?! YOU fail to understand that you are most likely GAINING MUSCLES and LOSING FAT at the same time so your job is to throw that scale away and take pictures of yourself every week.

Throw away all youtubers you know and just go to the gym and move things around. You don't need splits, routines, kcal counting, you need to get back to this gym and keep going.

I am not saying counting kcals, tracking protein intake, following a routine is bad. In fact all these things increase the time to reach goals if done correctly. But if you are exhausted and quit after four weeks cause counting kcal is exhausting, you hate every protein shake, you are following a routine you hate you will fail.

If you hate doing benchpresses find another exercise that is for your chest that you love. Who cares if benchpresses are better for chest if you won't do it the rest of your life while you love doing push ups but not doing them cause it's not in your routine.

Find one, only ONE exercise you like and stick to it. Forget about all those woobidoobi youtubers "Switch routine every 6 weeks" screw it. Do that forever if it makes you happy and makes you go to the gym regulary.

Don't scratch your whole nutrition and lifestyle just for a friggin' gym. In the end it took you (and me) a few years to get overweight or staying skinny. Forget people telling you to eat oat meal and bananas for breakfast if your bad diet was Pop tarts in the morning. You won't remove that habbit for longer than three months and eventually quit so keep eating it and go to the gym anyways. Worst case scenario is you won't gain weight but not lose weight. Not gaining weight is already a win (if obese). Worst case as a skinny dude is your not gaining muscles if not enough and being exhausted. Your body will tell you to eat if the scale isn't hint enough after a few weeks.

So get back. Don't quit. Most people in the gym are chill and honestly people quit and they don't even notice they achieved so much in four weeks.

One person started in January and told me last week he ain't seeing results. He showed me his routine and I told him: "Bro, you started Latpulldowns at 3x12 with 25 kg. You are ding 32,5 kg now..." 7,5 kgs more. He didn't see that as a positive result because his physic hasn't changed.

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 18 hours ago

I started in February (2 years ago) bc I figured the New Years people would be gone by then. I got a personal trainer for a couple months, then I got a gym buddy to go with. It's great bc then if you need to skip, you have to contact them and apologize.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I just started at the end of november, at first I almost gave up. There are couches so I've just booked one for two months, it's expensive as hell, but now there is incencitive to go and put some effort. 😄

Also never had anyone so supportive in my entire life, every time it's hard they say "you can do it, just one more time", lol.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 18 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

The typo made me imagine just an actual couch that's at the gym for potatoing. It's real fancy to justify the expense. And, of course, supportive.

[–] wisely@feddit.org 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Lol it took your comment to even make sense of what I just read. I was wondering why he was paying a gym just to lay on the couch.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 points 12 hours ago

Sad part is, at first I wrote it correctly. 😅

Maybe planet fitness can put it next to the free donuts?

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 5 hours ago

That’s more like it ;)

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I love the encouragement and positivity!

Percentage wise, buddy with the late pull downs is KILLING it. That's a 30% increase! If I could up anything 30% at the gym, I'd be in hysterics! (One of the nice things about starting at the gym is those wild gains at first, watch how fast you're stacking 45s on the squat rack!)

Selfishly, I'm kind of stoked people are gone. Congrats to those who stayed but having so much of the pool and gym back... So nice.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I never had the patience to deal with gymgoers even when they weren't newbs.

Thousands of dollars later, my entire basement is a combo of weights, free weight machines, cable machines and cardio machines.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

But have you used it before

[–] UniversalMonk@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

Yep! But the waiting for machines to open up, all the people around, just made it now as fun for me. My gf at the time didn't work out.

My current gf does work out and we have been to the gym together, and that's not so bad.