First time at gym.
Never been to a gym? Or has it been 20 years since you last visited a gym? I thought I should write a small beginners guide for self learning and starting out at the gym. Again, if you have a friend or somebody you know who knows something about weightlifting, take this person with you. It really helps if you have somebody to show you the exercise moves and how to do them the first time. Nowadays exercise machines have really good instructions and you should be able to use them easily. Most problems you will face are when using free weights. It is more difficult and the same time important to do the movements correctly when exercising with free weights. When the weights start growing, you risk injuring yourself if you have not learned the correct movement of free weight exercises. But for beginning those exercise machines will do well, and for free weights training later on you can observe how the more experienced exercisers are doing their exercise moves and learn more from books or internet.
Basic gym workout
Start with short 10-15 minutes warm up, ride a cycle, row on the rowing machine, jump rope or do something else to get your muscles warmed up. Then start doing your exercises. In the beginning don’t mind any workout plans or such for first couple of weeks, just get to know the exercises and how to do them correctly. I would recommend for a beginner to go first week two times to gym and on the second week three times, after this start thinking about exercising using a designed workoutplan. For those first couple of weeks do 15 repetition sets three times for one exercise. Use small or no weights, so that you feel comfortable when executing those exercises and the motion of your movement remains as the main thing of your exercises. When you start to get the hang of the movement, you can gradually add weights but not too much just as much that your movement stays good. Many times beginners put too much weights and their exercise movement is horrible to look at. For the first two weeks, there is no reason to think about too much of your weights, that will come later and you surely will have the time. So why am I talking so much about these exerecise movements and how important it is to do them correctly. Good movement will keep you healthy and someday later on will not force you to take pauses from exercising because your knee has hurt from your bad exercise movement or something similar.
After your workouts, remember to stretch. 15 minutes of streching should be enough, no special stretches are needed just do those basic ones they are enough for beginning.