I think most of us, when we think of exercise, think of cardio or of sports. It takes a while to get around to remembering weight training and sometimes even longer to get around to doing any.
Sometimes all those weights in the gym can look intimidating. So can some of the people using them. I have a news flash: those weights are for everyone and those other people need to share nicely. Often, people start with the weight machines. That’s a good place to begin because the machines have some built-in safety and stability things and there are directions, right there, in words and pictures. Working with the machines offers a way to get comfortable in the gym, look around, see what else is going on. And then, after a while, we realize that the machines are pretty boring for both our bodies and our minds.
Free weights open up lots of possibilities. When we use them, we are not artificially stabilized by the tracks of machines. We have to use our own core to do that. We have to pay attention because free weights don’t have something protecting us from dropping them on our own feet. It can be a lot more rewarding and challenging. It is all right, and even encouraged, that we start small and build from there. It’s worth the trouble.
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