TL;DR: Gained too much weight after I fell and broke my arm + couldn’t really move for a while. I have a lot of trauma related to sports, like I was forced to play football like any other Hungarian kid, and I was awful at it, which made others be angry at me for it, which made me reluctant to do it. Even if I manage to do it, I often get brutal, crippling muscle pain, which makes me fo it even less.
Since I"m Hungarian, I cannot rely on health care at all, especially mental health, as it was the very first thing that got cut, amd I cannot afford private care.
This person does it. Overdoing it being the enemy of consistency is the most important takeaway.
I try to simplify everything by working up to six sets of ten (I’m basic) until exhaustion but with low weights. Then next time I increase the weight slightly. As your endurance slowly builds you can add more exercises to your routines. You’ll eventually learn about cycling muscle groups to let them build on off days.
Also creatine monohydrate is an option as long as it’s from a brand that gets their purity and potency verified by a respected third party lab (USP, NSF, etc). It’s been shown to help build strength/power as well as muscle-mass benefits in aging populations with strong, high-confidence data. Cognitive benefits are also plausible and mechanistically sensible (creatine plays a role in brain cellular energy metabolism), but the certainty is only low-to-moderate. Plus if you’re investing in a supplement you’ll want to get the maximum benefits from it so it’ll help motivate you.