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[quote=Anonymous]lol, you probably just haven't been in the other section long enough.

You see all kinds of things and all that are okay if it works for the people.

People have been bringing in notebooks for a while to track what they've been doing and what to do.

Some gyms used to have a section for booklets that you can keep there.  I was never clear if that was only for personal training clients or not.

One thing you may want to watch out for is if you ask the front desk for anything they may end up selling you personal training services.  Which may be okay if you want someone to show you what to do and give you some routines.

More recently there are some people who take videos of themselves or ask people to take it of them.  I assume so they can study their form.  There are some websites where people upload their videos to ask people for their critique.

Also forgot to mention I also knew people that would set their watch to be a timer with an alarm.  So everytime the alarm went off they had to stop their break and do the next set.

So I don't think anything you mentioned is out of the ordinary.

Just make sure whatever you're looking at has solid fundamentals and you're doing everything properly because you don't want to hurt yourself.  One issue is that there are so many theories and different ways of doing things and sometimes they conflict with each other.

Youtube has a lot of videos you can use.  The new rules of lifting for women is a book frequently mentioned on this site.  (I've never looked at it)  Starting Strength is a real popular book that I've seen people reference at the gym and some people even bring it with them to look at while they work out.  I've heard that reddit has a pretty good faqs section for working out.  And I look at the forums on the bodybuilding.com website every once in a while.  The crossfit website probably has videos if you're interested in the type of exercises that they do.  For example I think they use kettlebells in some of their workouts.[/quote]

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