observations from the gym

I used to think that there were certain exercises I should be doing when I go to the gym because everyone else I see at the gym did these. Most people isolate single muscle groups in the arms and chest, so they do a lot of curls, triceps pull downs, and things like this, trying to get bigger arms and chest. I discovered this observation was wrong because I wasn’t achieving the results I wanted in the gym. I realized that there were differences between me and the other people in the gym; a lot of people who were doing these exercises were in overall good shape and already had developed core strength and the basic exercises that I should’ve been doing. Scientific knowledge played a big role in correcting my mistake because there is a lot of bad information out there about what you should and shouldn’t be doing in the gym. I had to do a lot of research on the internet, and eventually found a program that came highly recommended, and was able to explain the physiological reasons that certain exercises should be done instead of others, the way the exercises should be done, and took into account the fact that this program is for novices. By the way, as is often the case in science, the simplest explanation is usually the best one, and this gym program has the simplest explanation for why things should be done a certain way.