Busy Gym?!

BUSY GYM?

Too many people enter a gym with no aim, or purpose. This is only fuelled by a certain degree of fear or shyness, no one wants to be seen standing around. So sometimes one is forced to revert to somewhere they feel comfortable in the gym or forego certain exercises or machines altogether because there is someone using that machine or because they just don’t feel confident enough yet. These are the mental hurdles of the gym. They are just as important as the physical “hurdles” that we have to overcome in our training.

Always have a plan, not necessarily a plan that was put in place week before or days before but before your feet hit the floor in that gym you should have a plan. You also need a back up plan.

So for instance if I go into the gym and there is no squat racks free I would revert to the often unused leg press machine and keep an eye on the racks till they free up hopefully coinciding perfectly with the end of my leg pressing. Squatting after leg press is brutally tough but the unexpected swap around of your routine may just trigger some gains. So instead of getting annoyed when things you usually use are occupied. Embrace it and keep the gym environment positive!! Chances are you were reverting to the most familiar exercise or order of excersizes before this challenge made you alter your ways and therefore quite possibly your results.