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Well, my health has actually had enough of an upswing that I feel good enough to go to an actual gym in order to actually better myself physically and hopefully keep up medically. However, I don't know the first thing about exercise other than "lift with your legs, not with your back." Should I go with a bigger gym (24hour fitness is closer to me, but they're pozzed for certain) or a smaller one that may not have as many options? What vitamins and/or supplements should I stock up on to pair with exercise to ensure I'm not lacking anything essential, if any can't be obtained best with food? Any good starter groups of exercises to work into the whole routine?

Lambast me for being an idiot all you want, but there's a bunch of clutter around trying to learn about fitness, lots of people who lie or over complicate to get cash or attention. On the flip side, back in high school, the most the PE teacher did was say "This machine is good for this, those machines are good for that, go nuts" when unleashing the class on the weight room. Which didn't help either, because he didn't actually talk about actual healthy gym time or a good balance.

Well, my health has actually had enough of an upswing that I feel good enough to go to an actual gym in order to actually better myself physically and hopefully keep up medically. However, I don't know the first thing about exercise other than "lift with your legs, not with your back." Should I go with a bigger gym (24hour fitness is closer to me, but they're pozzed for certain) or a smaller one that may not have as many options? What vitamins and/or supplements should I stock up on to pair with exercise to ensure I'm not lacking anything essential, if any can't be obtained best with food? Any good starter groups of exercises to work into the whole routine? Lambast me for being an idiot all you want, but there's a bunch of clutter around trying to learn about fitness, lots of people who lie or over complicate to get cash or attention. On the flip side, back in high school, the most the PE teacher did was say "This machine is good for this, those machines are good for that, go nuts" when unleashing the class on the weight room. Which didn't help either, because he didn't actually talk about actual healthy gym time or a good balance.

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Develop and plan an HIIT workout session based on whatever equipment your local gym has. Optimum nutrition whey for before or immediately after workout, casein protein that slowly dissolves over hours right before bed, creatine hcl con-cret is a good brand. if you're cutting plan a diet low in carbs, if you're bulking go for a diet high in carbs.

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Thanks for the advice. Anything I should look for or avoid in the whey powder?

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optimum nutrition (ON) is a good brand. I don't recommend their multivitamins tho as the smell of the pills could gag a donkey. but don't bother w/ the fancy crap protein powder. ON Whey Gold, ON Casein Gold, whatever you do avoid soy based proteins. i 'm on one a day mens for a multivitamin idk how good or bad it is, i just know i nearly vomit every time i try to swallow the ON multi-vitamin. Other than fish oil it's getting very niche. Like you'll want to cycle on and off argnine and creatine hcl. It will safely make a difference in your workout, neither is a steroid or anything like that. The argnine (no2 or however they brand it) is a vaso dilator that basically fills your arms w/ more blood than is usual. results in better pumps in the short term. I do 1 week of that a month, and 2 weeks of creatine hcl, fish oil always.

but yeah they sell hydro whey, stuff mixed w/ casein and whey, whey mixed w/ creatine etc. Just stick w/ the basic shit w/ the powders.

ab straps, ab wheel, perfect pushup (I have a bench but trust me the rotating motion is insane for muscle confusion and you can just elevate your legs up a wall to increase difficulty. First time you do a 'perfect pushup' you'll be amazed just how much it fucks you up lol.

HIIT- High Intensity Interval Training, so do like a brisk walk 3-3.3 mph for 15 min on an inclined treadmill, switch from that cardio to some lifting sets, and so on. Basically alternate between lifting and cardio throughout your workout. Makes a 30 min workout as effective as a much longer session.

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That's pretty in-depth! Thanks for that advice, I'll start checking things out now.

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Wait, Optimum Nutrition is a brand. My bad.