Hi all! I'm new here. I've been using NRoL4W for about 10 weeks and just finished Stage 1 and had a week off. Up till now I've been able to do all my exercises at home. But taking a look at stage 2, i don't have the equipment to do them all at home. So i'll be going to the gym. But I don't know the exercises yet for this Stage. So i will have to carry the book around with me for at least the first couple of weeks.
I know i'm going to feel VERY silly.
Does anyone else carry the book around with them the gym for the first couple weeks of a new stage? Or do you do something to avoid carrying it around? If so, what do you do?
I "practiced" the moves at home and then made a few little notes on my log. It is bad enough carrying around the log in the gym, can't imagine the whole book!
I've simply always made sure my logs were pre-made before the gym, and any new movements I've worked out at home. Course, we have stuff a home so that does make it easier.
Even if you have to bring the book, so?
Might be easier to make copies so you don't have to flip pages, but in the end it usually is only once through that you really need the explanation. After that, some sort of cue is enough... like... "This one is where... " in your notes/log.
Oh I never bring a book like that to the gym, I would feel ridiculous. As it was, I stopped doing NROL4W because I felt silly at the gym. I just copy everything down in my log book. I DID keep the book in my car though, and would look through the new exercises before I went in on days there were new ones.
I carried the book around with me to the gym and looked at it when I needed it. If that is the only thing that makes me look ridiculous then I am happy with that!
I've been known to take a book to the gym. I generally find it too bulky to carry around (who cares if I look silly), so I made my wife design some logs.
I keep it on the windowsill where I keep my water and towel and peak at it if I need it. I like to have it as a reference, just in case I want to see what the pictures look like.
I made a couple of notes to myself in my log for the exercises I was less familiar with, similar to what Aoife indicates above. Another woman at my gym who is also doing the program (was kind of funny when she approached me and asked if I was doing NROLW) told me she made copies of the exercises to refer to as she was doing her workout.
I take it every time. I stack it under my workout log. No biggie. Sometimes I just want to re read a direction or look at a picture again. Sometimes I don't even open it, but I like having it because form is number one for me right now. I forget stuff or get overconfident or sloppy and making form changes. Having the book along helps take care of that for me.
Oh I never bring a book like that to the gym, I would feel ridiculous. As it was, I stopped doing NROL4W because I felt silly at the gym. I just copy everything down in my log book. I DID keep the book in my car though, and would look through the new exercises before I went in on days there were new ones.
Really?
What else do you not do in life because you might look a little silly?
I photocopied the relevent exercises and have them stapled behind the log. That way I can check them out whenever I need to, either for form, or a more difficult version of the exercise.
Thanks for everyone's input! I ended up making copies of the relevant pages like a couple other posters. It was a little annoying carrying them around in addition to my log, but i think i'll put everything into a folder for my next workout at the gym.
I had been taking the book to the gym, and it came in handy when a trainer came up and complimented me and asked about what program I am using.
Yesterday I forgot it and got screwed up with my BSS/forward lunge thingie. I'm bringing it next time. I just don't have the muscle memory for new exercises--it just takes me a long time to really imprint them in my brain.
I suggest reviewing the exercises at home, making notes on your log sheet (which I'm sure you've prepared ahead of time and have ready to go!), and still taking the book in your gym bag. Like others have said, you might not need to refer to it, but it's there if you do. It's there if someone asks you about your program. I take books, articles, etc., to the gym all the time.
For those who feel silly carrying a log or book with them, consider this: athletes will be filling our commercial gyms this summer while on break from school. Most of them will carry a notebook given to them by their coach with a workout program, notes on technique, and a summer's worth of log sheets. As a trainer I am always interested in what they are doing, and I often ask to take a look at their notebooks. There are some really good college S&C programs out there right now. So, if you follow suit and keep your log sheet and bring your program, you don't look silly; you look like an athlete, you look serious about your program, and you look like you know what you're doing. Coming to the gym with no plan and wandering around in an attempt to think of what to do next is what looks silly. Having a plan and executing it makes you look smart and thoughtful.
I have photocopies of the more complicated manuevers, and for others, I actually draw little stick figures in the margins of my workout log lol It's incredibly helpful to remind me of what I read, and pretty surreptitious
Hello... my first post here, having just started NROL4W last week.
I don't carry the whole book to the gym, just because I don't like to lug that much stuff around. I have photocopied the pages for Stage 1 and for the suggested warmups, and keep those with my logs in a manila folder and take that to the gym with me. That's working out well so far.
I don't think I've seen another woman with even that much stuff, but plenty of guys bring things, so if I look silly, it's no sillier than they look.
I just started Stage 2 and eventhough I studied the workouts at home I also brought the book with me to the gym. I wanted to check to be sure. I didn't feel silly at all. This is for me not them so who cares.
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