If you go to the gym, however, there is always someone to help, as well as having access to many different pieces of gym equipment.

While you may feel self-conscious at first, especially if you have no idea how to use any of the “contraptions,” you’ll be taking selfies in front of gym mirrors in no time. Try out these exercises below, and if you want to give someone a black eye, number seven in particular.

Bodyweight Training

If you’ve just walked into the gym and have no idea how to use any of the gear, never fear! You don’t have to try them straight away. Instead, you can carry out exercises that don’t require any equipment, known as bodyweight training.

For a quarter of an hour, do some chair squats, walking lunges, incline push-ups, and even some crunches. Start with five of each for up to three sets before moving on to something else to do.

Exercise Cycle

Whether you ride an exercise cycle at home or the gym, you will be blown away by how beneficial it can be for your body. It may even become your favorite machine to use at the gym.

When you use an exercise cycle, you can burn as much as 260 at a moderate pace for half an hour, as well as have it be easy on your joints and help to lower your blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

Rowing

You don’t have to get wet, cold, and uncomfortable to reap the rewards of rowing. In fact, you don’t even have to go near the water. Instead, head to your local gym and get rowing on a stationary rower.

Believe it or not, when you decide to face your fear and use a machine at the gym, you will get to experience a range of benefits. Rowing is fun, (yes, exercise can be), as well as helping to tone muscles, improve your cardio health, and lose weight.

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Weights

Strength training in the form of weights is an excellent gym exercise for beginners. You may also not need to awkwardly ask the gym instructor how to use the machines, either!

For weight training, try out dumbbell chest presses, split squats, seated shoulder presses, deadlifts, and step-ups. All of these can help to improve your strength, tone your muscles, and help to burn fat safely. You’ll wake up with dead arms the next day, but the payoff will be significant!

Treadmill

Do you have half an hour a day to spare? Then head to the gym and jump on the treadmill. If you spend 30 minutes every day on this magic machine, you can improve your heart health, cholesterol, endurance, and stamina for the betterment of your overall health.

What’s more, even though you’ll work up a sweat, you’ll find it’s a low-impact exercise that will enable you to burn up to 183 calories at two miles per hour.

 Stair Climbers

If you need to take a break halfway up a regular set of stairs, then it might be time to try out a stair machine. Who would have thought that something that simulates climbing stairs could be so beneficial?

While you wouldn’t want to carry your shopping bags up this machine, you will find the benefits are incredible. It can help you to strengthen and tone your body, improve balance, and burn calories too. What’s more, the next time you need to take the stairs for real, you’ll almost sprint up them without breaking a sweat.

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Boxing

Boxing is not a standard offering by most gyms, but when you need to let off frustration and anger, it’s the first thing you’re going to hunt down and use.

You can imagine your manager’s face front and center on the bag, or just bust out the anger of the day. While you’re getting all the rage off your chest, you’re doing your body some favors too. Enjoy the fat loss, muscle gain, and stress relief this fun activity can offer.

Lat Pull Downs

If you’re finally getting the hang of the gym, working out what each machine can do, it might be time to sidle over to the lat pull-down machine and give it a go.

With lat pull down, you can strengthen your back muscles, work on your posterior, and strengthen your core muscles as well. However, if you’re still not quite sure how the machine works, but you still want to get the same benefits, try a more comfortable seated cable row instead.

Boot Camp

Do you trust yourself to go to the gym, work out for an hour on your own, then head home again? More likely, you’ll skip the workout and eat French fries instead.

If that sounds like you, then you’re a prime candidate for a boot camp workout session. Boot camp is a group fitness session involving high-intensity workouts with someone leading the group. There’s no time to slack off, no excuses, and nothing but military-like guidance.

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Spin Cycling

Want to feel like you’re on the brink of death? Then spin cycling is an excellent gym exercise for beginners. After all, there’s nothing quite like throwing yourself in the deep end.

Spin cycling involves fast-paced pedaling with a group of people who are equally as insane as yourself. Spin cycles do not stop, so you need to use your legs to slow them down. The classes last for around an hour, but you can expect to burn as much as 700 calories!

Conclusion

If you’ve decided to get off the couch and get active instead of lounging around eating cake, then good for you! You’ve taken the first step, and now you’re a beginner gym user!

To ensure you get the most out of the experience, make sure you try these ten gym exercises above. Suitable for beginners, they can help you slide into the gym fitness routine for the best and long-term effect! Once you start exercising, you’ll begin to see results within only a few days!