First day of training. Two options hard and soft, as you like.

The first day of training is like the first fight. There are two methods for conducting the first training. Rigid and soft. The first is used extremely rarely, as a rule, in relation to people who have real sports experience, whether related to bodybuilding or powerlifting, or not.

The soft way is to conduct a warm-up workout. The athlete, if he performs any exercises, then with minimal weights, with a minimum number of repetitions and approaches. Often, coaches send a novice athlete to perform an OFP program, which is not entirely correct. The athlete should have been doing this even before coming to the gym, and an experienced coach will send the one who ignored this rule to the street. Let there – completely free of charge – do everything that is necessary. Soft training stretches over several weeks, gradually introducing the athlete into the training rhythm.

Hard training is the same thing, but exactly the opposite. She is the hardest one. It fulfills two goals at once: to show the future bodybuilder what awaits him almost daily, as well as to test real abilities and evaluate potential. The value of psychological testing is very high. As practice shows, after 2-3 months, 70-80% of “athletes” abandon training. If the coach from the very beginning wants to weed out the weakest and most incapable, the tough option was created literally for him.

Ability assessment is just as important, it is used in powerlifting sections, especially if such a section is free for those involved, and the beginner comes from another gym. For a beginner, the hard option is a lot of “pleasant” moments the next day. Pain, cramps (usually appear within a few hours after a workout, and disappear within 5-6 hours), slowness of movements and reactions, “withdrawal”. Is it worth it? Alas, the answer to the question is not for you, but for your coach … In any case, after a session of hard training, a period of its soft version begins.