10 Points to know before joining a gym

 

These days everyone is thinking to improve their fitness & health. The first thing that strikes our brain when we think about health is “Lets join a gym”.

Here are 10 points that anyone must consider before even joining a gym.

Point – 1 – Blood Test

To ensure you are free to go through the workouts and eat whatever is suggested at the gym, get your blood test done. This test will tell you many things like, how much protein your body can handle, how good is your kidney and liver, how much workout can be recommended, etc.

Given below is the list of tests that you are supposed to get done under your BLOOD TEST

• Blood Profile
• Sugar fasting
• Liver Function Test
• Kidney Function Test
• Thyroid profile
• Lipid profile
• Hormones

 

Point – 2 – Eat protein rich food

To improve your health and metabolism you have to enhance your muscle mass and for that you should eat protein rich diet. You should begin eating protein rich foods on regular basis. Food items like paneer, eggs, fish and chicken, should become important part to your regular meals.

 

Point – 3 – Cut the sugar intake

Sugar is a major culprit in making you fat and you need to understand that sugar does most damage to your health than anything else, so end the sugar’s presence from your life long before you join the gym.

Point – 4 – Cut the Fast Foods

Fast foods are on the number 2 but they are as dangerous as sugar. It is because fast foods are designed this way that people get addicted to them and the companies producing them can make regular huge sales on regular basis. Fast foods are making the world fat because our body cannot utilize most of its contents and saves them all under the skin as fat. Food like pizza, burgers, sandwiches are no way healthier than salad, homemade bread and a bowl of fruit salad.

Point – 5– Workout Better every time

Some gyms promise easy and less efforts to lose fat and improve fitness but that is a sheer publicity tactic. Achieving a good physique without putting in good effort and hard work is a big lie. You have to be ready to handle the pain after each workout session. You not only have to be good at handling each workout session, but you have to do it better than the previous one. So you need to make-up your mind accordingly before even joining a gym.

Point – 6 – Drink lot of water

Most people cannot realize if they are thirsty or hungry. It happens because we have stopped identifying the thirst in our day-to-day life. When someone is thirsty, but he/she eat something instead of drinking water, brain starts forgetting the thirst signal and starts believing it as a hunger signal. This will happen gradually when one will eat instead of drinking water. Then one day, the thirst and the interest to drink water will be gone forever and that will not be good for anyone in any way.

Point – 7 – Avoid Mobile before bed

Before even joining gym or before even thinking about fitness and health, everyone must understand that using the mobile phone before bed is very bad for the health. It is the sleep that regulates hormones and hormones are responsible of what we think what we feel how we grow, how we store fat and how we make muscles. Our sex life, love life, job life, social life, anger management, stress, everything depends upon our hormones and their regulations. So there is a BIG NO to mobile before bed, get rid of it at least an hour before bed.

Point – 8 – Sleep Well for 8-9 hours

As mentioned in the point no. 7 sleep holds too much importance just like food and oxygen, but hours of sleep is another thing that one should be concerned of. It is said 8-9 hours of sleep is necessary but it has been observed in various recent studies that if someone has a deep sleep for 4-6 hours, it works better than having 9 hours or 10 hours poor sleep. So the point is, have a deep sleep for 7-8 hours and you will fell the change for yourself. Work on the ways to improve your sleep before even joining the gym.

Point – 9 – Avoid Stress

Stress can literally destroy anyone’s life, if someone loses completely over it. The body’s behavior at the hormonal level changes ridiculously when someone is under stress. Stress burns the muscle mass and gradually increases the fat. Human ability to look at the brighter side lowers in stress. Stress is the manufacturer of problems like erectile dysfunction, low strength, poor eyesight, low libido, poor memory, bad relations, fat around the midsection, etc. One should practice yoga and meditation, before bed or after bed to lower the stress and live a calm and peaceful life, even before thinking about going to gym.

 

Point – 10– Mind your calories

The last point might sound useless to think about but it is not so. This point will ensure how you will do at the gym and how fast you will be able to gain muscles, lose fat and improve your shape and everything that you are supposed to do at the gym.

It is quite simple but yet complicated chapter in fitness. One can easily check how many calories his/her body needs, there are various websites available to tell you that precisely with their “Online Calorie Calculator” but people do not really care much about it.

If someone could understand how many calories are required, how much protein, carbohydrates and fats are needed, things will become very easy and then the result at the gym will be seen in weeks instead of months.

Conclusion

The decision of joining a gym and improving health is a really positive thing in someone’s life but if these 10 points are well taken care, the purpose of joining a gym will be met. It is the client at the gym who has to do the major work, not the trainers, not the gym, not the machines present in that premises. One can follow these points, understand and can make life better than ever before, even without joining gym.