Soon the summer and almost the other day we will be able to admire the snowdrops. And it’s not at all in a dense forest, still covered with snow. Athletes known by their code name among regulars in gyms and gyms appear on treadmills, ellipsoids and other pieces of iron in early March and disappear without a trace by the beginning of the barbecue season. Who are the “snowdrops” in the gym and where do they go?
Mr. and Mrs. Know-it-all
Just as delicate and fragile flowers bloom in ravines and bumps, "snowdrops" in the hall appear unexpectedly, but effectively. As a rule, they are not only dressed in the latest style of sports fashion, provocatively interfere with a protein shake on the first approach to the treadmill and are hung with gadgets and utilities like snow-white wristbands, a phone holder and heart rate monitor, but they also know how each of them works. simulators. This is confirmed by numerous viral videos from YouTube.
Each of the “snowdrops” in the hall is sure that three months before the summer is enough time to get a figure that is close in parameters to Lara Croft in the best years.
Regularity is the key to success
An experienced athlete does not need to prove that only regular and systematic sports, coupled with proper nutrition and sufficient rest can lead to success.
However, spring beginners are people of a different sort. Regardless of whether they suffer from excess weight or look like a cane, which one looks away in the distance with a weak gust of wind, the snowdrops firmly believe that a treadmill three to four times a week, as well as a pair of basic simulators, will instantly turn them if not Jen Selter, then at least Gillian Michaels.
Is it necessary to remind that most of them, tired of their unusual activity and not seeing results at all, turn off the race quickly enough.
How to distinguish a novice athlete from a "snowdrop"?
However, for many, spring is the time to start a new life. Therefore, new faces appear in all kinds of sports complexes and gyms. How to distinguish a person with serious intentions from someone who will disappear in a couple of months?
Everything is as if on a date: on the one hand it is simple, on the other it is ambiguous.
- "Snowdrops" more often than others are laid out on treadmills and other cardiovascular machines. Moreover, the range of their efforts can seriously vary from a lazy hour and a half walk to a 20-minute sprint at maximum speeds. Often the track is limited.
- Too much weight can also give a beginner. When a person first comes to the gym, it seems to him that everyone is looking at him, but here how can one not show who is really a cool athlete? If a person with a clearly unsportsmanlike past is trying to lift a hundred-kilogram barbell or puts maximum weight on the simulator, most likely we are faced by a novice maximalist.
- However, not only the inability to calculate one’s strength indicates that we have a “snowdrop” in front of us. This is clearly demonstrated by the complete inability to use the simulators. If in front of you is a person who has managed to stick his head in the simulator for a leg press and still claiming that he thus effectively shakes his neck, run away. This is a “snowdrop” in the hall, which has every chance of becoming not a beach star, but a YouTube star.
- The secret technique is the continuation of shamanistic dances with tambourines in front of the simulators. The person running from the simulator to the simulator and claiming that he is engaged in the new ultramodern system clearly does not know anything. Or something everyone else does not know.
- Ignoring the coach. What will a newcomer do when he first enters the gym and aims at long work and results? That's right, he will take a consultation with a trainer, ask in detail about each of the simulators and ask him to draw up an individual program for him. What will a snowdrop do? None of the above, he does not have much time until the summer to spend it ranting "that guy in a T-shirt with a club symbol."
Drink in the studio!
It is interesting that the "snowdrops" drag everything that is needed and not needed into the room (forgetting, however, at the same time, the towel that should be put on the simulator so as not to pour it with your sweat). But the first thing that catches your eye is a shake with a protein shake. And a bottle of L-carnitine. And a protein bar. And a couple of creatine pills. And BCAA. And much more that is completely unnecessary is useless, and sometimes harmful at the initial stages of the training.
A novice in the room from food and drink should take with him only a bottle of water. Fresh, clean and without gas. And she can’t always come in handy, because in many clubs there are drinking pumps.
The first step is the hardest one
Despite the fact that many regulars and old-timers of sports clubs and “simulators” treat “snowdrops” in the halls scornfully and mockingly, everyone who comes to class for the first time should keep in mind that they all once started the same way like him. And therefore you should not be afraid, because the most difficult step has already been taken and now you need to work on motivation that will lead to a athletic and healthy body.
At the first visit, you should definitely contact a trainer who will help you create a program for a beginner in the gym and help you put the right technique.
Remember that the most effective program is based on basic exercises - bench press, squat, traction, push-ups and pull-ups. This is the minimum starter kit, which is enough to tone the body and prepare it for more serious loads. However, the farther into the forest - the more firewood. In order to grow, develop and build muscle, a sophisticated program with tricky isolation exercises is not necessary at all. Sometimes it’s enough just to gradually increase weight.
And the most important thing is not to give up classes with the onset of the beach season, because only regular and high-quality loads lead to success.