Gyms can be intimidating places.
Even when you’ve been working out for some time, the thought of trying a new machine or move and getting it wrong in front of everyone is enough to spend even the fittest person into meltdown.
Obviously, you shouldn’t care – in 99.9% of cases, people are too busy getting their own gains to be paying attention to your mistakes. But still, it can be a worry.
So imagine having never used a gym before.
Imagine you were at the very, very beginning of your fitness journey where you’d never run for anything more than the bus and hadn’t lifted anything heavier than a bag of shopping before.
It’s one thing being intimated to use gyms when you’re already fit and you’re just shy about technique or learning how to use equipment, and it’s quite another when you are a complete novice.
What can gyms do about that?
The easiest and most obvious answer would be to really push personal trainers onto… Read the full story