Every exercise has its benefits. Running works on your cardiovascular health, yoga can help with anxiety and cycling strengthens your lower body in a low impact way. 

Weight training is no different. It helps both your physical and mental health, can improve your strength, and reduces muscular pain in the body. 

Trying it out for the first time in a busy gym may feel overwhelming, especially if you don’t know where to start. Between Romanian deadlifts, tricep dips and Pendlay rows, it can seem like there’s a lot of exercises and muscle groups for beginners to get to grips with. But it’s important not to let fear get in the way of strength training.

That’s where we come in. Fitness trainer Alice Miller and Zara Ozard, from Energy House Fitness, are here to explain the steps a beginner can take to get on the gym floor and start weight training.