Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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don't overthink, just grab a bar and start lifting
There probably are mean people at the gym, but generally, I feel like outside the gym people are generally meaner. Everyone's there to try and grow and work on themselves, most don't care for you at all. Don't sweat how you're gonna be perceived, just go there and work and sweat
keep it very simple until you're in the groove (meaning you go regularly), then slowly start adjusting and/or optimizing for whatever you're trying to accomplish exactly
listen to your body. When something hurts, try to really feel what exactly hurts and how. If anything but your muscles themselves hurt (joints especially), stop for now, you need either more time to adjust or you're doing something wrong. Try to figure out which one it is, by taking it easy and giving yourself some time anyway
there's a bunch of good resources linked in the c/fitness sidebar, you could take a look there for some of your questions - but I can't stress enough, how the most important thing is to just get into the habit of actually going there, anything else comes second. If obsessing about your split/workout will get you to go, have at it. If you just want to go and not care much for what exact plan your following, that's fine too, as long as you keep going. First few weeks/months is much more about building a habit and building the neurological capacity for certain exercises than anything else, really. Take it easy, keep going, listen to the signals your body sends you, keep refining and you'll be golden. It takes time, be patient
bit in a rush, sorry if this is a bit disjointed
excellent way to injure yourself