am i the only person embarrassed to exercise!

I used to be just like that, I HAD to work out at home and NO ONE could be home. It didn't even matter if the door was closed and they were on a different floor :laugh: I've gotten a bit better, I'm okay as long as no one lingers in the room or talks to me. Why do family members INSIST that when I'm working out is the best time for chit chat? :noway:

I felt this way back when I first started working out but as I started to feel more comfortable with the workouts and with my body, I eventually stopped caring and now I can do anything in front my SO and I don't feel embarassed at all.

I don't exercise with mine around...he is a huge distraction!! He wouldn't laugh, but he would distract me in other ways!!! I have a room at home that I can shut the door too...and it felt awkward at first, but I totally got used to it. I much prefer to hit the gym and he is not going to follow me there LOL...I have begged him to work out in the gym with me...not yet LOL

I only exercise at the gym and my husband is there so I don't really care who sees me. It seems if you're at a gym everyone is too concerned about themselves to pay attention to you and if you are exercising at home, just ask your husband to take the kids in the other room to play or watch TV. Don't be embarrassed; maybe you should have your husband join you :happy:

I look like I need medical attention when I do the jumping jacks. I am really uncoordinated. My 30 DS happens at 5 am. If your husband laughs at you, just laugh, too. At least you are working out and taking care of yourself.

nah I won't do the 30 DS around the other half, but I do it front of the seven year old daughter, she laughed at first but now she joins me in for some of it, cuteness xx

Not only do I not do my 30DS video when anyone is around, they don't know that I do a DVD. You're not alone.

OMG!!! I can't totally relate to this. I have the 30DS, treadmill, and other DVDs and just can't seem to do it when the kids are awake or the husband. I have known my husband for 12 years and married 6 years but still can't seem to want to exercise in front of him. I know that he'll support me and all but I just can't seem to show my flab (aka the tummy) bouncing up and down LOL!!!

Yes! There is pretty much nothing else I get embarrassed about in front of my husband, but I do not enjoy doing work out DVD's in front of him (anything else is fine for some reason). Maybe it's because I have no rythym and cannot dance, so I also feel awkward doing aerobics.

im the same way its why i wont have a gym membership lol instead we have a tiny gym in our apartment complex i go to, but i drive to it now & will only go if its dark out so if the light is on in there i wait till the person leaves...ive been doing this for 5 months now and i havent gotten over it yet. i also did the 30ds and would only do it while hubby was at work

I don't mind working out or even stretching around people at the gym, but I hate doing my stretching DVD with my husband around. It feels weird. We live in a small apartment, so I wait until he's at work (the one good thing about working on different schedules).

When I first started working out, I felt weird going to the gym. Like everyone must be looking at me thinking, why is there a fat girl at the gym (it didn't help that I was going to my campus gym that was full of mostly thin undergrad females). Even then, I knew it was irrational, but it still took me a while to get over.

I joined a gym a couple weeks ago. Right now, I can only work out for about 20 minutes (and that's slow walking on the treadmill-like slower than everyone else). Sometimes, when I'm walking into the gym and see all the people there, or sometimes when I'm adjusting the speed of my treadmill to only 2.0 or 2.5, I feel an Intense amount of embarassment. I feel like I should be able to do more and that it shouldn't be so hard for me to do the little that I do. I feel like everyone is looking at me and judging me because I can't do as much as they're doing. When I get this feeling, I remind myself over and over that I'm doing this for myself and that those people don't matter. I didn't know them when I walked in and I won't know them when I walk out, so it doesn't matter. And if they are judging me, then that's on them because I can always lose this weight, but they'll never stop being a jerk. I realize that this method may not work with your SO, but just wanted to let you know that you're not alone in feeling embarassed. I would think that your SO would actually be happy for you to be doing this for yourself, but, if he isn't then that's on him not you. You deserve to do this for yourself, so get it girl!

I'm the same way lol. I always feel silly doing my exercise videos and if he walks in, I'll take a water break haha. There have been times where he was sitting in the same room, but on the laptop reading news or something...so I'd do it anyway thinking he wasn't watching.....then I'd hear him tell me to keep going or work harder lol

I don't do my Zumba DVDs when/where other are around. It's not so much embarrassment though, I just find it distracting to have others in the room, and my husband tends to make lude comments (there is a lot of booty shaking in Zumba).

But we hike and sometimes bike together and I don't mind working with my dumbells in front of him. Also I sometimes do the Wii Fit thing where it counts off a step aerobic beat while you watch TV when we're watching together.

I don't know why it feels lame to do it at home, but it totally does. No problem at the gym, but I feel stupid doing any kind of exercise in my house. Of course in my sister's case, it WAS lame. She was doing Booty Burlesque Ballet or something to that effect. I've never laughed so hard in my life.