How do you break the barrer of getting into the gym? I have really bad social anxiety and no friends to go with
How do you break the barrer of getting into the gym? I have really bad social anxiety and no friends to go with
Cooper Morgan
Luis Johnson
if you want something bad enough then made up shit like this won't stop you
Matthew Hall
Exposure is the only thing that works. Getting in there, knowing your way around, create your routines/figure out what you like doing there. You also notice that nobody there gives a shit, they're too focused on themselves.
Ayden Cox
ex skinny fat here go early in the morning like 6/7 am in my old gym where i started there was only 2 grannies and a try hard. in my new gym (been a year) there's a old chink tryhard and 2 grannies and 2 roided manlets. also start with fundamentals (compound lifts) for at least 2/3 weeks
Leo Lopez
You're going to be working out at a public gym. People are going to look at you, just like you're going to be looking at other people. You either get over it like the man your father/forefathers wanted you to be, or you forever stay small and insignificant.
Adam Parker
I used to have bad social anxiety too. I'd get the shakes, I'd stutter, I'd speak too fast, I'd be unable to maintain eye contact, and I'd clam up. Worse was I couldn't pee in a public bathroom.
The cure is to just go. If you want to beat your anxiety you have to tackle it head on. You have to accept that your anxious and put yourself in the worst possible situations for your anxiety. Face fears until failure and then your anxiety disappears. Also, beer does lessen my anxiety.
James Hill
unfortunately there's no real trick and you just have to do it
one day just force yourself to go
i don't care if you cry on the way there
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Gavin Cooper
Exposure therapy is the only way to get weak minded fags like you out of your house. I used to have social anxiety, but years of working in customer service beat every last fuck I ever had to give out of me.
Last night after work I was benching, and in the exertion to get the weight back up, a thunderous echoing fart shot out of my ass, and I do literally mean echoing.
It smelled like someone pissed in some battery acid, but did I drop my spaghetti and run out of the gym?
No, I finished my set and got started on the BB rows. Be like me, user. Do whatever you have to do, lift those weights, and fuck everyone else
Daniel Hernandez
i started by going at 2 AM then eventually i got comfortable enough to go in the morning
Daniel Clark
I got used to a squat plug before going to the gym. wore it when I first went and realized no one noticed my advantage. Continued going and built a habit of going to the gym once I realized no one gave a shit about me being there or cared about my 1000lb squat plug
Isaac Myers
Realize that absolutely nobody cares about you, and people will only look at you from time to time because they are bored between sets. Nobody will judge, make fun of, or even care about you at all. And even if they do, they wont communicate it, so why the fuck do you care whats going on in other people's heads?
I have anxiety in several situations, but never in the gym. People are there to lift heavy shit up and put it down, not to look at people, socialize or form opinions of others. If you think other people will think about you in the gym your problem is not anxiety, but narcissism.
Sebastian Hughes
It's sad that people with such anxieties exist. It's also sad that because of political correctness and whatnot, they aren't just told the truth: nobody gives a shit about you. As said.
Use the little what's left of your brain to not do anything fucking stupid, like drop weights, stick a finger to another person's ass etc. and you'll be just fine.
For real... isn't this kind of anxiety some form of narcissistic disorder? Thinking that everybody and the world revolves around you and someone gives a shit? The sooner you get rid of such anxieties, the better. It will make you a better person and less of an asshole. Good luck.
Noah Reed
No one gives a shit. Just like going to clubs and bars, etc. No one really gives a shit.
Alexander Stewart
If you haven't shat your pants while squatting at least once, you've never squatted.
Just fucking lift goddamnit.
Matthew Martinez
Have some decency you obnoxious faggot animals.
Kayden Nguyen
Dude my whole body feels on fire and my face turns red and my forehead begins dripping with sweat. People think I'm a fucking freak.
Benjamin Wood
When I see skinny and/or fat fucks in MY community college's gym I take my shirt off and flex near them while grunting, many dont return
Stay in your lane
Jeremiah Barnes
No you really fucking don't.
Kevin Reed
>No you really fucking don't.
Angel Gray
No, people don't think so. You think people think. People don't give a shit, it's in your head. Once you realize this and that there's nothing to fear, you will stop having the reactions. Just plan a workout and go do it. Forget about everything else. Focus on the workout. Well, try to remember common courtesy and manners, but that's about it. And then after the workout you'll feel good. You'll actually want to do it again.
Ayden Reed
Go at midnight if you want to avoid people
Julian Collins
whats a tryhard, loser? stay dyel forever with your lackluster mentality
Carson Diaz
Just go
like literally no one gives a fuck about you