Motivation and husbands..feedback please:(

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  • G__Force
    G__Force Posts: 280 Member
    Your husband sound like he would be happy to show you the ropes, how to use all the machines tht is. He has been doing it for a while he can help you out. Dont worry about what everyone else thinks most of them were in your shoes at one point in there life. Get in there and get moving!!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    I just want to encourage you too. MFP threads notwithstanding, most people are into themselves at the gym, i personally don't notice anything that doesn't WANT to be noticed, if you know what I mean. Everyone's ideas here are sound and I hope u take certain one's to heart like just use treadmills for awhile until you feel acclimated. Then also try the trainer showing you around and/or hubby showing you stuff or going with you one or a few times if it helps then on your own if that's more comfortable for you. I personally could not stand my hubby to see me, I'd die. Seriously, today I got sick after trying a gross home remedy and the look of dissappointment on his face nearly killed me, so I totally get you.

    Finally, my all time favorite blahs buster is to lure myself step by step. I'll let myself have a yummy healthy snack if I at least get dressed in the gym clothes. Then if i at least step in the gym even to just weigh myself or use the spa, another reward. Then while I"m there i might as well check out the buttons on the treadmill & just see how it works. then since I'm at it might as well just walk on it for 5 minutes on low, just to say I did treadmill. then when 5 minutes goes by it feels like i could double it...and so on. YOU CAN DO IT.
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  • Justjamie0418
    Justjamie0418 Posts: 1,065 Member
    I have not read the previous replies so I am sorry if I am out of line in anyway.. but I know it's hard to hear those things sometimes but I think its great he wants to support you... even if he isn't the best at it sometimes.

    Mine discourages me because he is too lazy to do something himself and wants to sabotage me. he encourages me to NOT workout and shoves pizza in my face every other day!

    Hang in there! you can do it!
  • leopardjunkie
    leopardjunkie Posts: 149
    You will probably have more people looking at you if you continue to put off your health :) My experience at the gym is that everyone is pretty much their for themselves and will either help you out or ignore you :)

    When you go in for your first workout ask the manager if they have someone that can show you the proper way to use the equipment for free. Alot of time they will show you how to set up the machines so they are set for you, and can answer questions about ediqute too. I know at our gym there is also instructions with pictures on most of the machines that tells you how to use and shows what muscles you should feel being worked. and you can allways ask someone if you see them doing somthing you want to learn, just don"t expect them to drop and stop what they are doing, they will probably want to finish :)

    people may look and stare but get up dust yourself off and get your butt back in there. If it makes you feel better I have done many embarassing things thus far and so far they have not chased me out with torches and pitch forks!! LOL One of which is when I got home I realized that I had been doing my yoga stretches the whole time I had a hole in the butt of my workout pants and(black with white underwear!) ha ha I have also almost fell of the treadmill becuase I was engrossed in my tv showed which someone unexpected got killed off and I lost my balance.

    and if after all the well wishes on here you still can"t bring yourself to do it. check your contract. I know in our state you have 3 days to cancel with no fees or penelties per state law :) so you might have an out :)
  • AdrieneJ
    AdrieneJ Posts: 141 Member
    I have also almost fell of the treadmill becuase I was engrossed in my tv showed which someone unexpected got killed off and I lost my balance.

    I fell off once watching the Winter Olympics speedstaking event. I was leaning into the turns for them. :P
  • Kttyler87
    Kttyler87 Posts: 141 Member
    I have not read the previous replies so I am sorry if I am out of line in anyway.. but I know it's hard to hear those things sometimes but I think its great he wants to support you... even if he isn't the best at it sometimes.

    Mine discourages me because he is too lazy to do something himself and wants to sabotage me. he encourages me to NOT workout and shoves pizza in my face every other day!

    Hang in there! you can do it!
    Think we married twins!
    haha
  • kathyl05
    kathyl05 Posts: 67 Member
    Hi Jessica,
    It sounds like your husband wants company. I do know the gym can be overwhelming..between the machines, the grunting and the spandex, it is not my favorite place either. Unfortunately, it can be a necessary evil and you can handle it a few ways. As others have suggested, you can have an employee show you the ropes, have your husband teach you the machines or you can do as I do...just not give a crap. I pick a cardio machine which is as far away from anyone else as possible, pull out my pad and pop on The New Adventures of Old Christine. I laugh like a moron and probably snort at times, but I just don't care...I'm doing it for me and no one else. You would be amazed at the number of calories you can burn during Downton Abbey. My suggestion is take care of yourself and forget about everyone else.:wink:

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