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There are a lot of exercises you can do at home with body weight or some weights you have at home (water bottles). You might look up exercises like variations of push ups, Bulgarian split squats, goblet squats, lateral rises, pull ups, over bent rows. :)

Can’t speak for running but when it comes to strength training you can avoid getting hurt by doing the exercise with lower weight and more repetitions. So instead of doing shoulder press with 10kg and 5 repetitions you can do up to 30 repetitions with 5kg. You will get the same muscle mass this way

One thing that helps me getting out of the spiral of negative thinking is to focus on the technique of the exercise and listen to a podcast that is not about trans but something totally different. And the mindset that it only can get better with some physical activity!

I totally feel that! What helps me is to try to focus on other things. As you said, through workout your chest won’t go magically away BUT(!) you can get a certain control over you body composition (get muscles where you want them, potentially get overall leaner).

I know that it is scary and that it feels like everyone stares at you but everyone feels that way at first. Yes even the big guys. But there is really no reason to be scared. The majority of people just wants to do their exercises. :)

One way to get more comfortable being in the gym is to go with someone else. This way you are not alone and can explore the gym and machines till you are both familiar with the equipment, the exercises as well as with the people in the gym.

If you train for specific daily tasks where you can't use grips/straps like caring things, it's best to train this exact motion without grips and doing additional grip strength exercises.

But at the end a mix of both is probability the best. You can do one set without straps and the others with.

If you want big back muscles definitely use grips/straps. This way you will not be limited by your grip strength.

If you train for specific daily tasks where you can’t use grips/straps like caring things, it’s best to train this exact motion without grips and doing additional grip strength exercises.

My passion is academic art but those kind of book illustrations probably convince more people 😅

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