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Beginner Gym Strength Base

A proven full-body programme, a gym you will use, safe technique on the main lifts and simple rules for adding weight, so complete beginners lift with confidence.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Beginner Gym Strength Base, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before starting a new training programme, especially if you have a health condition, are pregnant or are coming back from an injury, and stop if you feel pain, dizziness or chest discomfort.

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🏋️ Fitness & Sport

Beginner Gym Strength Base

Starting strength training from scratch with simple full-body programmes, safe technique and gym confidence for complete beginners.

  1. Three-month beginner strength goal
  2. Readiness check before starting to lift
  3. Choosing a gym you will actually attend
  4. Gym induction and equipment walk-round
  5. Picking a proven full-body beginner programme
  6. Weekly training slots in the diary
  7. First lifting log with sets, reps and weights
  8. Finding starting weights in the first fortnight
  9. Shoes, clothing and gym bag basics
  10. Three full-body sessions every week
  11. Adding weight with simple progression rules
  12. Ten-minute warm-up before every session
  13. Sunday ten-minute log review
  14. Monthly progress check against starting weights
  15. Regular meals and protein around training days
  16. Missed session rules
  17. Soreness versus pain rules
  18. Membership value and renewal check
  19. Goblet squat to barbell back squat
  20. Hip hinge from Romanian deadlift to deadlift
  21. Bench press with safety arms or a spotter
  22. Standing overhead press technique
  23. Rows and pulldowns for a stronger back
  24. Breathing and bracing basics
  25. Filming your lifts from the right angle
  26. Gym vocabulary and programme notation
  27. Safe bailing from a failed squat or bench
  28. Free weights or machines for the first months
  29. Personal trainer sessions or a beginner course
  30. Stalled lift reset plan
  31. Swapping exercises that do not suit your body
  32. Adding arms, core and carries after the main lifts
  33. Cardio alongside beginner lifting
  34. Plan B exercises for a busy gym
  35. Six-week first-programme review
  36. Coached form check at week four
  37. Twelve-week strength re-test
  38. First week back after a holiday
  39. One-year gym anniversary review
  40. Starting to lift in your fifties or sixties
  41. Twice-a-week plan for busy parents
  42. Student strength training on a budget
  43. Confidence in the free-weights area for women
  44. Starting strength training in a larger body
  45. Lifting with a long-term health condition
  46. Quiet-hours plan for gym nerves
  47. Graduating to an intermediate programme
  48. Choosing a direction after the beginner phase
  49. Writing your own full-body programme
  50. Helping a friend through their first month

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Three-month beginner strength goal

Writing down why you are starting, and what you want to be able to do in twelve weeks, gives every later choice a simple test: does this help with that? A goal such as goblet squatting a 20 kg dumbbell for ten reps, or carrying the shopping up three flights without stopping, can be checked, unlike a vague wish to get fit.

First tasks

  • Write one sentence on why you want to get stronger now
  • Turn it into a goal you could prove in twelve weeks
  • Name one everyday task the goal should make easier
  • Reread the goal and adjust it at the start of each quarter @recurring(quarterly)

Readiness check before starting to lift

Most healthy adults can start lifting without seeing anyone first, but heart, joint, blood pressure or pregnancy questions are worth clearing before the first session rather than after it. A short pre-exercise questionnaire, the kind most gyms hand out at sign-up, shows in ten minutes whether a word with your doctor should come first.

First tasks

  • Fill in a standard pre-exercise readiness questionnaire
  • Book a doctor or nurse appointment if any answer was yes
  • List current medicines and past injuries on one page
  • Repeat the questionnaire each year or after any new diagnosis @recurring(yearly)

Choosing a gym you will actually attend

The best gym for a beginner is the one on your daily route, open when you are free, with at least two squat racks and a quiet corner to learn in. Comparing two or three options on a trial pass before signing beats choosing on price alone and then dreading the trip.

First tasks

  • List gyms within fifteen minutes of home or work
  • Ask each gym for a free day pass or trial week
  • Visit at the hour you plan to train and count the racks
  • Compare cost, hours and notice period on one page
  • Sign up and copy the cancellation terms into your log

Make it yours.

Install Beginner Gym Strength Base, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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