For context, I recently started going to the gym every day this past month. I’ve been feeling good about it and I honestly like going. I enjoy it.
Today, while doing leg presses, a woman comes up to me and very matter-of-factly tells me that I am doing them wrong, tells me how to do them, and asks me to get up so she can show me.
I was doing them right. My boyfriend was with me we were going back and forth, and I had just finished my set. You have to lift press past the locking mechanism to get off, so I have to stretch a little further because i’m short. I’m assuming she saw this and thought this is how I was doing my whole set. But she won’t leave. She’s insisting I let her show me. I tell her no thanks and after a few seconds of hard staring as I look straight ahead she leaves.
This has always been the biggest fear of mine for the gym. I’m out of my comfort zone and anxious already just being there. So now i’m crying in my car from embarrassment and anxiety and trying to convince myself it’s no big deal
I’m so afraid of looking stupid at the gym or feeling like people are watching the big girl work out. I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb and my anxiety wins everytime and is winning currently.
If this isn’t the place for this i’m sorry I just needed to get it out
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