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Actually speaking as someone who is trying to become less sedentary the issue for me is a lack of knowledge, not a lack of time or whatever. I literally didn’t

Actually speaking as someone who is trying to become less sedentary the issue for me is a lack of knowledge, not a lack of time or whatever. I literally didn’t know what exercise was appropriate or even how to perform the ritual around exercise and everyone’s “just do something” was supremely unhelpful. I didn’t know what was normal soreness and what was an injury. I didn’t know what’s an appropriate warmup or cooldown. I didn’t know about eating and exercise, and would sometimes eat too close to exercise and throw up, or not fuel myself and feel extremely lightheaded/about to pass out. This made exercise much more challenging and intimidating, because there’s so much woo on the internet and you don’t have enough knowledge to sift through it. It’s like asking a layman to “do their own research” about idk flat earth or something.

watwut 4y ago
There are channels on youtube with prepared sets of workouts. I have seen people follow them with success. And also, I used app (freeletics, but there are plenty of others) to give me workouts which worked well for me.
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
  Prepared sets don’t tel you about fueling yourself so you don’t feel too faint to continue, what’s soreness vs injury, etc. they also don’t confirm whether or not your form is good, so you can often injure yourself because super out of shape people very rarely have the body awareness/coordination to be able to self correct.
  - watwut 4y ago
    I think that it is just overcomplicating it for the beginner. What happens when beginner cant continue or it hurts is that beginner will take a break until he/she can continue. I dont think beginner with no trainer to push him would overdo it till fainting. With a form, if you are going to claim that everyone must start with personal trainer to correct their crunches or squats form, pretty much no one will start exercising anymore. That is just going to be too expensive and time consuming. And among people I know who regularly exercise, none of them started with a trainer.
    - SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
      I’m not claiming anyone should invest in a personal trainer. You’re putting words in my mouth. I’m just saying that things aren’t as easy or as simple as people describe due to a lack of basic body awareness and knowledge that comes with exercise. For example when I first started I developed severe back soreness the next day, to the point where I worried I had severely injured myself. Google was obviously unhelpful here, as “lower back sore exercise injury or not” is full of SEO spam. It was only when I got to speak with other friends who weightlifted more regularly that it was determined to be probably just soreness from not stretching.

watwut 4y ago

There are channels on youtube with prepared sets of workouts. I have seen people follow them with success. And also, I used app (freeletics, but there are plenty of others) to give me workouts which worked well for me.

SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
Prepared sets don’t tel you about fueling yourself so you don’t feel too faint to continue, what’s soreness vs injury, etc. they also don’t confirm whether or not your form is good, so you can often injure yourself because super out of shape people very rarely have the body awareness/coordination to be able to self correct.
- watwut 4y ago
  I think that it is just overcomplicating it for the beginner. What happens when beginner cant continue or it hurts is that beginner will take a break until he/she can continue. I dont think beginner with no trainer to push him would overdo it till fainting. With a form, if you are going to claim that everyone must start with personal trainer to correct their crunches or squats form, pretty much no one will start exercising anymore. That is just going to be too expensive and time consuming. And among people I know who regularly exercise, none of them started with a trainer.
  - SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
    I’m not claiming anyone should invest in a personal trainer. You’re putting words in my mouth. I’m just saying that things aren’t as easy or as simple as people describe due to a lack of basic body awareness and knowledge that comes with exercise. For example when I first started I developed severe back soreness the next day, to the point where I worried I had severely injured myself. Google was obviously unhelpful here, as “lower back sore exercise injury or not” is full of SEO spam. It was only when I got to speak with other friends who weightlifted more regularly that it was determined to be probably just soreness from not stretching.