For some, the hardest part of working out is not the cardio,
the leg presses or even the stationary-bike classes -- it's walking into the
gym.
This I would say had to be my biggest struggle. Every time I
walked into the gym, the first thing I thought was that everyone who saw me walking
in would be like, “yup, he definitely needs to be here!”
For this reason, I took it upon my self to start on my own
without the gym. The local Recreation Center has a track open to the public at
no costs. I did my cardio everyday there. I went to the local Wal-Mart and bought
a fitness ball to do Abdominal workouts.
For the first 2 months, I did all my
working-out at the track and at home, All because the gym was way too
intimidating to me. After some weight came off, I signed up at the gym, but
made a conscience effort to get there “when there seemed to be the least amount
of people!”
People may think health clubs are filled with incredible
hulks and smiling supermodels, surrounded by mysterious, sinister-looking
weights and machines. In other words, the gym can be intimidating.
The truth is, no one's perfect. And everyone is at the gym
for the same reason -- to improve.
Gyms have every kind of person -- young, old, skinny, heavy,
male and female.
"Everyone at the gym is in the same situation, and not
everyone is a 20-year-old bodybuilder." "Going to the gym for the
first time is like the first day of school. You may not like it, it may seem
strange and lots of people hate it. But you get through it and you do
fine."
With that in mind, you can start to move past your
intimidation. And one day soon, you just might find yourself completely at home
in the gym, wondering what all that anxiety was about.
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