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Anonymous
hey /fit/ness freaks, i'd like to ask about how stuff goes on in gyms, i'm about to start weight training.
if you just walk in as a casual member or something, is there someone hanging around that you can ask about PROPER FORM FOR YOUR SQUATZ, etc?
i wouldn't want to just walk in and break shit doinitrong.
>> Anonymous
Yea, they call him the gym-master, he usually stands in the middle of the gym, just waiting.
waiting.
>> Anonymous
Read Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe to learn form. You can start without weights or just with a broomstick or something until you know your form is correct, then go reproduce it at the gym.
>> Anonymous
>>154131
The lulz
>> Anonymous
hmm, this is a tough question.

If you were squatting, and trying to go low, I may come and help you, because I can see you're putting in effort, it's just misplaced.

You can always ask a trainer, although I'd mistrust what they say.

Try going for a while, and watch people, and see the guys doing really good squat form, and try asking when they're done, or something.
>> Anonymous
We were all new sometime. I'd help you out if I saw that you were doing something wrong, and didn't look like you'd bite my head off.
>> Anonymous
>Try going for a while, and watch people, and see the guys doing really good squat form, and try asking when they're done, or something.
this
>> Anonymous
is it worth hiring a PT for a session or two just to teach me proper form?
>> Anonymous
>>154205
there is one of those in every gym already
>> Anonymous
>>154205

yeah, if you got the money to spend.

I've only been to my current gym, so I don't how it goes in others (or in the states, where im assuming you're from). The personnel at my gym are wicked friendly and helpful, and will take 15 or twenty minutes to show me how to do a new lift or pull a book of a shelf and discuss routines, physiology, muscles, lifts, etc.

Dunno how it goes in other gyms though; personnel might be surly and unmotivated.