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merca

01/11/2017 12:53AM
Hi, hope you did get the first step done and you packed your pre-, intro-, after workout clothes, made lunches and have been to the gym already!I can share my experience (this is from 4 years ago)...I got gym membership, for 3 months I just paid it and put off the start( money right out of window). Then somehow I ended up in one of the classes there. In the worst possible class I could ever imagine - zumba. I was way overweight, I'm stiff as a plank (still to this day), I dont have any rhythm, my hips dont move - nothing about my body says that I could belong in that class. I started off in the back of the class, moved my legs, never my arms, but I somehow survived and while I was stumping from one leg to an other, I looked around and: no one was interested in me! - everybody was busy doing their thing. After couple of months i was in the first row, I said to my self - no one cares! keep doing this. And I did for couple of years and had a lot of fun (in time) and lost a lot of weight.Now I do this class occasionally and every time I get there - I'm as fresh as I was the frist time (have problem remembering the steps), but I dont care anymore - the first row experts (if there are any - they enjoy their time and do not care about others, the last row newcomers maybe look once, but just to get encouragement that they are not alone having hard time with it). I have been having hard time in every corner of the gym - but you know what - everybody have started from scratch in the gy

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I didn't make it to the gym, but I did get all the steps done, and worked out anyway, just not at the gym. My kid spoiled my good intentions-- but I broke part of the rut, so that's a huge step. And I think you're right, there are a lot of people at the gym who are busy worrying about themselves, as we all should. Unfortunately I always encounter the Mansplainers at the weight machine, the occasional eyecontact-y judgey-mcjudgerson, etc. Not enough to keep me out, but just enough to make the re-entry anxious. No big deal, I'll suck it up. Good for you for sticking with it when you felt uncomfortable, too!

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