View Full Version : Do you remember your first training session ever??
Camineli
03-08-09, 8:38 pm
Let's see if anyone has some stories...
Mine I did a set of every machine in the gym... Putting WAY too much .... Woke up the next day and was sore for nearly.. 2 weeks haha good times
Psycho77
03-08-09, 8:46 pm
Was really embarrassed for being the weak tub of lard that I was. Got to the gym and peeked and and saw the guys lifting big weights and thought of how they would just snicker and probably laugh at me so I just left. That happened twice more.
The forth time I went to the gym, which was actually my first actual training session, I dragged a few friends along with some gym experience so at least I had someone to talk to. Went pretty well, I benched 50 pounds for 10 and I was 251 at the time. Shameful performance. Then I did a round of all the machines, using I think was 40 pounds on the pec dec, 50 pounds on the leg extension, 20 on the leg curls and 100 on the leg press. I remember waking up the next day all sore but loved it.
71bbo455
03-08-09, 10:47 pm
My first training session was at our local boy's club when I was a freshman in high school. We had a trainer that worked with a few of us football players. He used Penn State's negatives program. I remeber going in feeling so strong and leaving feeling like I was the weakest person on the planet. Hard ass routine. Gave a good base and gain some good strenght. Not much for size though.
Now after a year of that program I began what I would call my training life on my own. I found books and read up on bodybuilding and tried everything I could. My first routine was legs and I did the staples of squats first. I was pretty happy that I could squat a pretty good amount of 315 weighing only 135. Then I moved on to lunges. I saw a photo of Tom Platz doing lunges with 275 on the bar. I was pretty strong, so I thought, so I put 135. What a mistake. I went to step forward and actually fell over due to the weight being so heavy. I ended up doing them with 65lbs. the bar and 10's on each side. Finished the workout and woke up the the next day with a torn glute muscle. What pain. But that was my first day in a long life of iron. I have loved it ever since, whether training or not.
Mizzarler
03-09-09, 3:18 am
All i did was bench in 9th, up until like the middle of my soph year which is probably why my upper body still over powers my lower body...i benched 95 pounds my first workout
I was 14 and visiting some family in San Diego. A family member was retired navy so he took my brother and me to the gym at the naval base. I remember doing bench press with maybe 90 pounds and thinking that it was so much weight. I don't remember much else but it was a great time. I don't think I picked up the weights again until I was 16 or so.
BubbyLight
03-09-09, 8:24 am
wow first time eh? jesus. i was training for hockey and not pushing a lot of weight. just doing a lot of reps. had a strict workout lined up before i even went to the gym. leg day, just getting the form down for everything. and then of course for the next two weeks i couldnt do dick, couldnt even walk. of course i didnt stretch...now at the gym i spend atleast 10-15 min stretching before i even try to put up weight.
O god.
First day at Man's World was a week after my wrestling season ended in my sophomore year of high school. I'd been looking forward to lifting on the offseason to gain strength and to improve my record, but had no idea how to do it efficiently. One of the assistant coaches at the time took me there, and my skinny 125 lb frame ended up benching 95, but my form was terrible, slow, and I only brought the bar about half-way down towards my chest. He lead me through my first routine, which was part of a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule that hit everything in the gym except abs and legs. I don't think it was so much "this routine has to be the best ever", but more "just get in the gym and learn how things work". My form was sh!tty on almost everything I did, having no formal lifting experiance before this besides kalistetics(spelling?) and what I believed was a good bench press at the time.
DreamZero
03-09-09, 12:13 pm
hell i wanted to train everything today.. and I did.. for 3 hours... and did the same thing the next day... and the day after...
Firefist
03-09-09, 12:20 pm
ah...yes.
first day in, it was stressed how important the deadlift, squat (and then benchpress) was for some overall development. I learned good form and was putting 135 on the bar for 8ish on deads and squat and i repped 85 pounds for 4-6. haha. since we only focused on these three lifts, we did about 8 sets each.
every time i needed to bend over to pick something up, i just toppled over. sitting on the toilet was absolute murder. haha, funny how that part hasnt changed.
good times.
Camineli
03-09-09, 12:25 pm
every time i needed to bend over to pick something up, i just toppled over. sitting on the toilet was absolute murder. haha, funny how that part hasnt changed.
good times.
So true haha