Hello,
I rang up a few places regarding buying equipment to have my own home gym (saves me the membership of a Gym and travel time).
After talking with a few places, one of them recommended instead of investing $2000-$3000 in a home Gym, since I am a beginner, I would be better off spending that money on a Personal Trainer. Not just any trainer, as there are a lot of clowns out there. Someone with a reputation to uphold. They might cost a fair bit, but, they could teach me how to do the lifts, the technical side behind the lifts, develop a workout program that would fit me and see me making the gains (Google has 10000000 programs... which one will work for me though? hence the trainer to tailor the needs) and so forth.
Then I have a personal friend of mine who says gym trainers are a waste of money, you can learn on an empty bar how to do all those lifts correctly, so there is no point spending ($150 or so per hour?) on a gym trainer.
What do you guys recommend?
2nd: I am posting here because I am interested in Strength training. When I told my brother I wanna do it, he made a few points why not to bother which is what I want to clarify from those that actually do strength train.
A: He says that at my age, 32, my body is not going to be developing like it would have had I been 18-20 when most of ones strength starts to build. So to do powerlifting or weightlifting now, I am only going to get myself injured and ruin my career (singing).
B: He has a weightlifting friend who has ruined his joints and he claims his friend said that almost all lifters know as they get older there joints are going to stuffed. Considering I am a singer... that is one problem I do not need or want.
C: Don't do lifting because you don't need it as a singer, and it promotes all these risks which can ruin your later stage in life (joints etc), and also not every persons body is suited to that style of training either. So even with a world class coach, there is no guarantee that my body is suited to that style of training, my central nervous system may not respond to that style of method, and again Injury in question, and again, what for? To end my singing career... then I would wish had I never started Gym, I would never have the problems I do.
So the conclusion is: Since Gym is not my 'career' there is no point shortening my actual career due to Gym. It sounds basically like, Gym is a good for now thing (show off, etc) but long term... its actually going to cause damage and not benefit. Damage I don't need as a singer. So I am simply better off without it unless I planned to make it my career and then just reap the consequences later. So basically it has no health (it does short-term) benefits but drawbacks (long term - joint issues, cartilage problems etc).
You can understand what position I am in.
As a singer... it is true, there is no need to lift weights. So if I don't lift them... I will be 100% fine the rest of my life. However I love the idea of lifting and it would be good and feel good to do. However, if this is going to promote long term problems... then later in life I would wish I never have done lifting as at that stage I wouldn't have those problems had I just stuck to my singing.
So some clarification on these points would be appreciated as I am not sure how valid his remarks are... (you know, the I know it all, giving advice on everything in life person problem).
I rang up a few places regarding buying equipment to have my own home gym (saves me the membership of a Gym and travel time).
After talking with a few places, one of them recommended instead of investing $2000-$3000 in a home Gym, since I am a beginner, I would be better off spending that money on a Personal Trainer. Not just any trainer, as there are a lot of clowns out there. Someone with a reputation to uphold. They might cost a fair bit, but, they could teach me how to do the lifts, the technical side behind the lifts, develop a workout program that would fit me and see me making the gains (Google has 10000000 programs... which one will work for me though? hence the trainer to tailor the needs) and so forth.
Then I have a personal friend of mine who says gym trainers are a waste of money, you can learn on an empty bar how to do all those lifts correctly, so there is no point spending ($150 or so per hour?) on a gym trainer.
What do you guys recommend?
2nd: I am posting here because I am interested in Strength training. When I told my brother I wanna do it, he made a few points why not to bother which is what I want to clarify from those that actually do strength train.
A: He says that at my age, 32, my body is not going to be developing like it would have had I been 18-20 when most of ones strength starts to build. So to do powerlifting or weightlifting now, I am only going to get myself injured and ruin my career (singing).
B: He has a weightlifting friend who has ruined his joints and he claims his friend said that almost all lifters know as they get older there joints are going to stuffed. Considering I am a singer... that is one problem I do not need or want.
C: Don't do lifting because you don't need it as a singer, and it promotes all these risks which can ruin your later stage in life (joints etc), and also not every persons body is suited to that style of training either. So even with a world class coach, there is no guarantee that my body is suited to that style of training, my central nervous system may not respond to that style of method, and again Injury in question, and again, what for? To end my singing career... then I would wish had I never started Gym, I would never have the problems I do.
So the conclusion is: Since Gym is not my 'career' there is no point shortening my actual career due to Gym. It sounds basically like, Gym is a good for now thing (show off, etc) but long term... its actually going to cause damage and not benefit. Damage I don't need as a singer. So I am simply better off without it unless I planned to make it my career and then just reap the consequences later. So basically it has no health (it does short-term) benefits but drawbacks (long term - joint issues, cartilage problems etc).
You can understand what position I am in.
As a singer... it is true, there is no need to lift weights. So if I don't lift them... I will be 100% fine the rest of my life. However I love the idea of lifting and it would be good and feel good to do. However, if this is going to promote long term problems... then later in life I would wish I never have done lifting as at that stage I wouldn't have those problems had I just stuck to my singing.
So some clarification on these points would be appreciated as I am not sure how valid his remarks are... (you know, the I know it all, giving advice on everything in life person problem).