FIRST DAY AT THE GYM: WHAT TO BRING

hey guys what's up it's naomi and today i'm going to be showing you what i'm packing in my gym bag for the year of 2022 and what i would recommend bringing if you are a first time gym goer [Music] so before we get started and we did just move into a new home and so nothing we have literally literally have no furniture we sold everything from bed frame to couches and tables everything um and so we're pretty bare so but we're gonna work with what we have so don't don't mind it so three things that i would say you should bring with you to the gym for your first day at the gym in r one a blender bottle or a water bottle if you don't have a butter bottle don't worry about it you can just bring a regular plastic water bottle any other water bottle that you have just if it can hold liquids in it you'll be just fine but if you want to pick up a glitter bottle you can get them off amazon target at walmart you can probably get them pretty much anywhere um but yeah but if you don't want don't want to go through the house of getting a blender bottle you can definitely just bring a water bottle i see people at the gym all the time with just like regular recyclable recyclable plastic water bottles so if you want to bring just that too that's fine or if you don't want to bring a water bottle at all there are most gyms have water fountains where you can just take a drink of water if you want to if you don't want to bring a water bottle as well the other thing that i would recommend bringing is are just a pair of shoes i just have my converse these are like my everyday go-to gym shoes i used to change shoes a lot i used to switch between like my romaleos and vans cannabis get high etc uh back when i was more so doing lifting heavier but nowadays i'm just it's i'm doing it more i feel like my lips are just a little bit more casual and recreational versus trying to meet a certain strength goal and so i just remember converse basically every day to the gym the only time uh sometimes i will also bring my running my running shoes um which i don't have here because they're packed in a box somewhere and i can't find them but i'll also bring running shoes too if i'm going to do a little bit of cardio after just because my converse just don't always um hold up not that they don't hold up that well but they're just not as quite as comfortable for walking running jump roping stuff like that doing hit as my running shoes are so whatever running shoes you have you can bring those any really any kind i would say any kind of shoe that would be labeled as training or running shoe would be just fine but also at the same time you can wear whatever shoe you are comfortable in um because i've seen people wear like timberlands i have people seen people who are like you know healed of gogo platform like shoes i've seen people where their birkenstocks you know so really there's no right or wrong whatever shoe you feel comfortable working out in that's true you should bring with you to the gym so the last thing that i would recommend bringing if you are a first time gym goer is a pair of headphones or um or ear earbuds uh so for me i prefer my headphones just because these ones these are the bose qc35 ii um so these are noise cancelling so i just like them because there can be a lot of background noise and whatnot at the gym actually for like the first two years that i was going to the gym i never i don't think i even i want a pair of headphones period um and so i never listened to my own music i was just it was just me and my thoughts at the gym um and so if you don't want to wear headphones and to this day i see people not wear headphones all the time either and so if you don't want to wear headphones if you don't have headphones don't feel the need to go out and buy a pair because i didn't wear headphones when i first started and i was completely fine people i still see people don't wear headphones and like no no one cares no one cares if you wear headphones or not as long as i can find these items i'm sharing with you guys online i will leave them linked down below as well alright guys so there we have it these are the three simple i would see like i would say like basic things that i would recommend for your first day at the gym um and again you can bring whatever you feel comfortable with you can wear whatever you feel comfortable with if you don't want to do the water bottle or the headphones or you want to wear your sandals to the gym by all means do it as long as you are comfortable as long as that's what you're comfortable in so this next thing i obviously i don't carry it in my backpack with me to the gym but it is a cool like little fitness tool that i use on a regular basis that i think some people might find helpful as well and it is my fit track dora scale which i know that a lot of people are just don't like weighing themselves and that's completely fine if you don't and if you don't like to weigh yourself and you don't you have you have thrown out the scale love that for you if you are someone who doesn't mind weighing themselves the trackbandara is a wonderful skill for doing exactly that so every morning i just hop onto the scale and open up my fit track app which you can download completely for free making sure my bluetooth is on the scale connects to the app and automatically uploads my metrics to the app so i can see where i'm at for the day and track my progress over time the fit track dara scale measures 17 different metrics like your muscle mass visceral fat subcutaneous fat bone mass and the amount of water your body is holding so i can go on there and see hey i might weigh 140 pounds and that might be a lot for a person that's 5'3 but i'm also packing 100 pounds of muscle on my body and that i am not mad about so things like that your average scale can't do for you and when it comes to overall health and well-being there really is so much more to being healthy than how much you weigh which is why i appreciate this scale and how it doesn't focus only on weight especially if you're someone who may be trying to lose body fat sometimes if you're weight lifting at the gym your muscle mass may increase while your body fat decreases which might even your weight out and make it seem like you're not making progress when you actually are while i would take the scales measurements with a grain of salt if you are consistently using it it can definitely be a great guideline to let you know where you're at and help you track your progress over time so again that is my fit tracked our scale which again i don't bring with me to the gym but i have at home at home um it has a ton of cool different features i will leave links down below for you guys to check out and also have a discount code for 25 off which is just my name naomi all right so moving on so these are other little things that i bring with me to the gym then you really don't have to but again over the past six seven years i've been going to the gym i've curated a little like you know bag of goodies that for me i like to bring to the gym but i do tend in general really to be a little bit more high maintenance and i can definitely be high maintenance at the gym too with the different things that i like to bring let's start with the backpack and so this backpack is just regular backpack when i first started i just brought my school backpack like my little pink jansport backpack that i wore to school i would just take up my books and put in my sneakers and headphones and water bottle and just bring that to the gym it was nothing fancy at all at the time i could not afford like a cool gym bag you know or like a bag specifically for the gym so i just brought my school backpack and that worked perfectly fine so if you have a school backpack that you want to bring with you or anything like that a small duffel or if you just want to carry everything too you can definitely do that as well all right so besides that then i also have my barbell pad which i use for hip thrusting this one is by the brand called fit aviva i want to say it's like 20 dollars just off amazon it is supposed to have two of these velcro straps um but i lost the other one it still works perfectly fine with just the one and this like the pad itself is in good shape still but i have found that with most gyms i've gone to that they i've gone to like anytime fitness i started at any time fitness and then we went back and forth between lifetime and la fitness depending on where we lived um and so in all those gyms that we went to they always did have barbell pads there for us to use as well and so check with your gym first if you're not if you don't want to buy your own barbell pad and lug it around with you to the gym kisses it doesn't even fit like all the way into my backpack i just have to leave it sticking out at the top but i don't mind so besides that i also just bring an extra pair of leggings because um for us ladies sometimes you get your period and at the gym and that's never pleasant to get your period when you're at the gym and you don't have an extra pair of leggings and you're not prepared and speaking of period and things i usually also bring like a tampon with me just in case again i do get my period or if i am on my period and like already sorry for the tmi if i'm already wearing a tampon um and forget to bring them with me then i always just have one in my backpack for me here i also have a deodorant you know because just in case i feel like most people will do this before they get to the gym but sometimes you forget you know and so i have two different kinds i have this secret clinical strength um deodorant which is like your standard classic sticky deodorant and then i have this one by lululemon which is their anti-stink deodorant this is a spray one this is in the i can see flavor it's not flavor the scent aloe lotus so then besides that then i also have just um bobby pins and hair ties in here all right so i'm going to move on to supplements quick so this first one i'm going to start this one is just uh bcaas if you ever so if you if you are new to the gym and you see people bringing around their bladder blender bottle and it has like this blue liquid in it that's most likely going to be bcaas which bcaas stand for branched chain amino acids which i'm not going to get into now um because this is not a supplement uh video but anyways so that's usually what it is so if you do want to try them and you if you want to try them anyways this one that i like from sierra this is the pink candy flavor which is a little bit sweeter the glow hedo is still sweet but i feel like it's a little bit more neutral so depending on what your personal preference is you might like one one or the other um this one is not blue so and the glow heated one is not blue either that one's more like a lime green but anyways besides the point um but yes so i have my aminos with me just because i mean i always do mix up aminos before typically before i go to the gym so i already have it ready to go but i just bring it along with me in case i drink all my bcaas and i want to refill yeah and so besides that i also have my syrup sierra pregame pre-workout um actually sometimes it brings so this one is a stem pre-workout which means it does have caffeine so sometimes depending on the day or if i'm working out later in the evening or earlier in the day then i would bring a stem or non-stem um pre-workout also have these little sierra hydration sticks which these are really delicious and so if you're not really into the whole pc thing completely fine um but if you still but you don't want to like drink just like plain water you just want to add like a little punch you know to your water and then i have these as well so again depending on the day sometimes i'll do my aminos sometimes i'll do these hydration sticks and so this one is in flavor grapefruit sunrise so they come in like a box so you get a whole box of them but then i just always grab a couple stick them into the side of my backpack and easy as that i also have that's a real crispy wrapper i also have just a protein bar because sometimes i feel like when you're working out not very often for me but sometimes here and there i'll get like a lightheaded you know you just like need something something sweet or something to eat you know and so i well you should always have a protein bar in my backpack as well so next up i have these ankle wraps um which i use for cable kickbacks for the glutes um and so i always have it just at the bottom of my backpack as well i don't these ones i would say a lot of gyms don't always have and so that's why i have my own is because in case the gym doesn't have it or if someone or if the gym does have it but someone else is using them then i have my own and i don't have to wait for someone else to be done for me to do the exercise that i want to so again i'll have these linked down below as well so some more equipment here i have my gangster wraps and these ones i use for bench pressing and for shoulder presses um sometimes like incline uh but incline dental press things like that you wrap them around your wrists if you watch some of my like push day or like chest and tries um workout videos you might be familiar with these already but they just help to give your wrist some more support um when you're doing those kinds of lifts but anyways i'm not doing a review about these so let me stop talking and then i also have my resistance band here this is uh this came in a pack of three but this is the one that i like the most it's the one that i always have with me these are the mark bell hip circles um and so i like them because they are really like uh they're that cloth material really durable um they don't really slip too much because sometimes sometimes the grip is nice but sometimes not having the grip is also nice um but anyway so this is the resistance band that i always bring with me to do like blue activation exercises or just whenever i just want to add a little bit of resistance um uh of right like above my knees for that extra glute engagement and then i also have this jump rope on the off chance that i do hit then it is usually like that cuttable jump rope hip i do have like a follow along version here on my channel which i'll link down below if you guys want to check it out but i have this with me just because um my gym does not have any jump rope so i bring my own and another thing i like to bring with me to the gym is just a uh like a sweater if you do again i feel like i'm talking a lot about like getting your period but you know it is it happens um but you know if you do get your period and you don't have the leggings then you can just wear this over your pants so the very last thing that i have in my gym bag pack is another pair of headphones star i really should have talked about this earlier i'm high maintenance why do you need two headphones uh because there have been days when i am at the gym and my headphones my bose headphones die and then i'm left with no music you know and so i just had these these are my back up ones these are these are not headphones i keep calling these headphones these earbuds not earbuds earphones i don't know earbuds okay yeah sorry these are the soul s that um earbuds and these ones for me whenever i am doing hit or cardio these fit really um well into my ear without like falling out which is another reason why i like to have these on hand too all right guys i have completely unpacked my gym backpack here if you have any questions for me about anything that i bring or anything that you you're not sure if you should or shouldn't bring leave a comment down below and i'll get back to it as soon as i can again everything will everything that is that i can find online then i will link down below some of them will be affiliate links and of course if you are interested in picking up a new scale for the new year make sure to check out the track dara scale um and it really is a wonderful skill i will leave it links down below in the description for you guys to check out and then make sure to use that discount code naomi for 25 off thanks so much for you guys for stopping by hanging out with me today guys if you have any other questions comments or if you have any other tips for people suggestions recommendations for things that people should bring with them to the gym then make sure to also drop a comment down below so we can all help each other out i hope you guys all have a great new year and if you are just starting your gym journey this year i'm wishing you the best of luck thanks so much again and i'll talk to you guys soon [Music]