The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Spending the money on machines is not a schmuck move. After all, it's good business sense to put the money where people can see it, and it's quite hard to replicate machine setups in a home gym, whereas anyone can s/b/d in their garage. Your personal trainer might see it that way, or perhaps he's just lazy and doesn't want to do the slightly harder job of teaching you compound lifts. Frankly I really don't see any value in a personal trainer that just walks you from the pec machine to the leg extension, and if I paid money for a personal trainer and he did that, I would feel scammed and even insulted.
I don't think exercise selection is as important as people make out, but bench/press/squat/deadlift is a fairly well accepted way to cover all your bases. They're technically interesting, allow you to work with heavy loads, and involve muscles of the body beyond prime movers.
(Anyway, good on you for getting into the gym)
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