Woot! *high five*

Changes in diet and environment can definitely help

No you don't necessarily gain weight from strength training. It all depends on your program and your diet. As long as you are expending more calories than you are eating, you will lose weight. If the opposite is true, you will gain weight (which will be mostly muscle if you are strength training with the right program).

Banana curry sounds weird asf though idk about that

Hmmm looks interesting. I might have to try making that soon!

Well I had to take a few weeks off from lifting weights due to:
a) a wrist injury
b) a huge spike in school workload
However today I was able to go back and kick start my routine again. It was funny really; as soon as I walked through the door of the fitness center all of the front desk staff said "your're back!" haha. It feels good to be back that's for sure. Although I did hit my funny bone with a dumb bell about 20 minutes in (don't ask)

Wait a minute! There's actually a "funny bone"? I always thought it was just an expression for having a sense of humour?

Well yes and no. When somebody hits their "funny bone" they are actually hitting the exposed Ulnar Nerve that runs through the inside part of your elbow joint. So it's not actually a bone per se but it is a label for a legitimate piece of your body

After getting the Spring Break blues I was demotivated and quit for 10 days.

Luckily I am back and quickly did 50 sit-ups consecutively. Before I could only muster 10! Still going to stick with 100 a day with 100 consecutively and easily as the goal.

Push-ups are another story with me still unable to do them properly. 20 if I am lucky. Will most likely swim this summer as well, but we shall see.

Hi

Never did sport before, hated it.

2k15 was very rough for me at work, ended up almost in a burnout. Doctor at work warned me about my weight (95kg) and told me I was in bad shape.

So I pushed the door of a gym club, and almost turned back on my heels since I felt the pressure of dozen of eyes pinpointing on me. Anyway one of the coach took me and showed me the club.

Bought a pair of basket, came back the day after, started some training under the surveillance of my coach. A few days later she gave me a program to stick to. This was in end January.

Now, I'm very happy to perform a 15mn session on the rower (my first attempt after three minutes was me out of breath, spitting my lungs out ^^).

Keep at it! All progress is good progress - remember that. I fully believe that you can do it

Hello and welcome aboard!

The thing about the gym is that everybody who goes are equals. Everybody is there to work hard and improve themselves and that is something to take pride in.

I'm glad to hear you are doing so well. Keep at it and get even better! It's an amazing feeling and everyone is capable of it

Thanks for your topic, I found a lot of nice advice. However, I can't understand some specific words related to gym here, my vocabulary lacks in this specific field ^^ I'll find a way to describe the program given by my coach !