fucking amazing work, comrade! Couldn't be more excited for you! My housemate and I high fived excessively over your good news! I'm all about calisthenics. And would encourage you to start there before doing weights(everyone has different advice, I'm sure)- but easying your body into the patterns of movement before weighting is a great idea to help build resiliency and prevent injury. Moreover, there are two methods for building strength- tearing the muscles-eg. you feel super sore. and then this thing called "greasing the groove" which is about strengthening neural pathways, and the totality of the pathway that starts in your mind telling you body to move, and the actual muscles contracting- here's how it works- do however many push ups/crunchs/pull ups/body squats, etc that you can do- to get you 100% max out. Then do around 40% of that, but do it alllllll the time, like every hour, every 30 minutes(its not really effective if the rest is less than 15min tho) your muscles will never hit exhaustion- you wont be breaking them down- but you will, over a couple weeks teach your muscels to fire at a higher and higher rate- say you did 20 pushups rn, if you havent done a lot of pushups in the past- say 65% of you actin and mysions will actually active and contract during the exercise- "greasing the groove" gets that % higher, until eventually so, 80-90% of the muscles fibers are engaged when you do an activity- this will build strength and endurance and help prevent injuries. That said, some day you might want to move into weights - breaking down the muscles is the best way to get strength gains. But, remember to go slow, enjoy this process and theres more than strength out there- I'm a big advocate of a yoga practice as well, for increasing healing, flexibility, and strength in non-conventional movements. I also say, always aviod machines, use free weights if your gonna, those stabalizing muscles are where you get a lot from(and again, prevent injury) Best of luck, keep us posted! Proud work!!
fucking amazing work, comrade! Couldn't be more excited for you! My housemate and I high fived excessively over your good news! I'm all about calisthenics. And would encourage you to start there before doing weights(everyone has different advice, I'm sure)- but easying your body into the patterns of movement before weighting is a great idea to help build resiliency and prevent injury. Moreover, there are two methods for building strength- tearing the muscles-eg. you feel super sore. and then this thing called "greasing the groove" which is about strengthening neural pathways, and the totality of the pathway that starts in your mind telling you body to move, and the actual muscles contracting- here's how it works- do however many push ups/crunchs/pull ups/body squats, etc that you can do- to get you 100% max out. Then do around 40% of that, but do it alllllll the time, like every hour, every 30 minutes(its not really effective if the rest is less than 15min tho) your muscles will never hit exhaustion- you wont be breaking them down- but you will, over a couple weeks teach your muscels to fire at a higher and higher rate- say you did 20 pushups rn, if you havent done a lot of pushups in the past- say 65% of you actin and mysions will actually active and contract during the exercise- "greasing the groove" gets that % higher, until eventually so, 80-90% of the muscles fibers are engaged when you do an activity- this will build strength and endurance and help prevent injuries. That said, some day you might want to move into weights - breaking down the muscles is the best way to get strength gains. But, remember to go slow, enjoy this process and theres more than strength out there- I'm a big advocate of a yoga practice as well, for increasing healing, flexibility, and strength in non-conventional movements. I also say, always aviod machines, use free weights if your gonna, those stabalizing muscles are where you get a lot from(and again, prevent injury) Best of luck, keep us posted! Proud work!!