[eph9011]

Man, I went there, for the first time ever I stopped wasting my time as a couch potato and did my thing, it hurts, I did smaller weights on everything that had small weights and even got a bit dizzy on the treadmill... I feel pretty weak, hahaha... my chest hurts quite a bit and I can't even stretch my arms or move them all the way up, it hurts so freaking bad, guess it was a bad mistake for a newbie... what should I do to ease this pain a bit besides getting off the damn PC?

[noeymc]

U should keep doing it your body is sore beocuse u probably haven't used most of thoes mucels in a long time

[Matt3046]

Advil, works pretty good. Try to stick with the weight machines, and tread mill for a little while. Eventually you will be getting stronger and able to do more. But I am not sure that overdoing it will produce results any faster.

[Skell]

Hahaha. I couldn't help but laugh at the title of your thread. My first time "on" a gym...

Good work though. Keep it up. The best thing for the soreness is to go again. It is just your body telling you that they haven't used them muscles in a while and it doesn't want you to over do it.

So perhaps next time you go you can target some different muscle groups and give those ones that are sore a bit of a rest.

But you should do heaps and heaps of stretching of the sore muscles. It will hurt but it is good for you. Stretch, stretch and stretch some more.

[noeymc]

Here's a tip pick what parts of your body you want to work out and don't do the same thing every day do it every other day for best results because your body needs to heal that's the best additives I can give