Got Fear?

[thebigpants]

I'm starting a short series of posts dealing with basic tips on over-coming typical issues that keep us from achieving our health and fitness goals

Comments

[tramsosmai]

For me, the fear that prevented me from getting started wasn't so much a fear of committment as a fear of embarrassing myself or a fear of hurting myself. Even now, I'm happiest when the gym is empty. I still get shy when I feel like people are looking at me and checking out what I'm doing (although I know that when I'm checking somebody out in the gym I'm definitely more curious than judgemental: what's that? should I be doing that? I wonder how that works.....). I'm still afraid of looking silly. I focus on form and try to think only about what I'm doing. It helps.

[thebigpants]

This is a great point. I've been training along time and I often forget that people can feel awkward when they begin. I go late at night when I train alone. It's mainly to avoid the dumb guy chat me up routine. Gah, why must they do that?????

[tramsosmai]

I feel the same way! When I'm in the gym, I'm gross, I'm sweaty, and I'm not there to mess around. I just want to do my lifts, get disgusting, then take a shower and feel amazing afterwards. I don't really want to hang out and be chatty.

[tramsosmai]

It really nice that people are friendly and I don't want to be antisocial, but...