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Submitted by   Whitney Denise on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 11:44am.
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I am trying to gather information about what bothers you or worries you about your workouts? What things prevent you from getting into the gym? what things are intimidating about gym atmosphere or just working out in general? Any questions or comments please let me know :O) |
Gym Intimidations
I can give you a whole SLEW of reasons why the gym is intimidating -
1 - Don't know how to use equipment properly.
2 - Scared you are going to look dumb using a machine wrong 3 - Scared you are going to look dumb trying to figure out the machine
4 - Scared someone is going to come up to you and tell you are using a machine wrong
5 - Not knowing the layout of the gym and walking into it and looking dumb trying to figure out what to do.
6 - If you are just going to do cardio and all the machines are taken up, then what do you do???
7 - Not knowing gym etiquette, wipe machine down? how long to be on a machine?
8 - There is NO ONE around to ask a question if you have one.
9 - Staff is NEVER helpful in a gym, even at the front desk they aren't friendly.
10 - Gyms don't offer ANY information!
I will give you an example.......
I finally got the nerve to go the gym to participate in a class, and I walked in and someone asked if I had signed up. I had no idea what they were talking about, and I walked out of the class, out of the gym, and went home.