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Originally Posted by PassTheBypass  Also for those doing their first weight training: Yes, you can move that weight 5 times, even though it isn't easy. The good looker next to you is really impressed, and you decide to do 10 more. But guess what, your tendons are not ready for it yet. You will be a ball of pain if you overdo it the first day, and not from the muscles. Start off low, and build up. If you curl three sets of 10 (ten times, rest, ten more, rest, ten more) at 20 pounds the first day and it was too easy, you can move up to 25 or 30. But if you try 30 the first day and end up in stiff agony, you did too much. Work your way up to 30. Start out light and comfortable, get the correct motion into your muscle memory, (throwing your back out to do a curl shows you are not doing a curl correctly), then move to a higher weight. I am not an expert, but this is something I learned from painful experience. Experts, correct me if I am wrong.... |
Your concept is sound.
Always start off very slow and easy your first few times back in the gym, and never lift close to what you could do for a maximum weight. Don't push yourself to crank out as many reps as you can. Start VERY light and work on your form which is very important for new lifters.
The only exception is when you take your sister to the gym who hasn't lifted in 8 years to show her the ropes, and you have the urge to torture her.
