Starting Out
How Many Days a Week to Work Out as a Beginner
Most beginners quit not because the workouts are too hard, but because the plan asked for more days than their life could give.
Founder and fitness writer, page 2 of 8
Leo spent his twenties as a distance runner and his thirties rebuilding after a knee injury. He started this site because most fitness writing assumes you are already fit and already motivated, and he found that assumption annoying enough to do something about it.
Starting Out
Most beginners quit not because the workouts are too hard, but because the plan asked for more days than their life could give.
Gear and Equipment
You bought dumbbells, and now half the program you want to follow calls for a bench.
Starting Out
You walk into the gym, look at the squat rack, and have no idea what you are supposed to do for the first ten minutes.
Starting Out
Most beginners who say squats hurt their knees are not doing too many squats.
Workout Plans
Hotel gyms have a type. One treadmill with a sticky belt, a rack of dumbbells that stops at 12 kilos, and a sign saying the...
Workout Plans
One 16 kilogram kettlebell, a patch of floor two metres square and twenty minutes.