Comments on: Catching Up http://www.thedenora.com/2008/01/catching-up/ The One. The Only. The Denora. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allie http://www.thedenora.com/2008/01/catching-up/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Allie Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:35:01 +0000 http://www.thedenora.com/blog/?p=129#comment-157 Oh man, skinny people at the gym. Hate.it. I try to ignore them as best I can, but when on the treadmill what else do I have to do? They make me feel SO insecure and self conscious. That's one reason why I refuse to work out outside, ALLTHEPEOPLEOMG? Looking at me? Fuck, no. So yeah, I feel your pain. Oh man, skinny people at the gym. Hate.it. I try to ignore them as best I can, but when on the treadmill what else do I have to do? They make me feel SO insecure and self conscious. That’s one reason why I refuse to work out outside, ALLTHEPEOPLEOMG? Looking at me? Fuck, no.

So yeah, I feel your pain.

]]> By: NGS http://www.thedenora.com/2008/01/catching-up/comment-page-1/#comment-158 NGS Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:29:05 +0000 http://www.thedenora.com/blog/?p=129#comment-158 In my (maybe not so vast) experience, people at the gym are too caught up in their own working out to pay attention to other people. I can handle skinny girls at the gym because even though they are skinny, they usually aren't in good shape. Did you ever watch that America's Next Top Model episode when half the models couldn't push their bodies up from a sitting position against the wall? (And if no, it may say more about me that I watch that show compulsively than it says about you.) So when I see the skinny people, I ignore them and assume that I am in better shape than they are. And the hot, in-shape girls (and guys, I guess) are so busy making themselves hot and in-shape that they never even glance in my direction. And since I like to think that someday I can be one of them (ha!), I don't feel intimidated, but inspired instead. Additionally, it really helped me to feel a lot less intimidated by the gym by having a couple of sessions with someone who really knew what they were doing. Since you're with a trainer (who sounds awesome), hopefully you'll get some confidence from that, as well. In my (maybe not so vast) experience, people at the gym are too caught up in their own working out to pay attention to other people.

I can handle skinny girls at the gym because even though they are skinny, they usually aren’t in good shape. Did you ever watch that America’s Next Top Model episode when half the models couldn’t push their bodies up from a sitting position against the wall? (And if no, it may say more about me that I watch that show compulsively than it says about you.) So when I see the skinny people, I ignore them and assume that I am in better shape than they are.

And the hot, in-shape girls (and guys, I guess) are so busy making themselves hot and in-shape that they never even glance in my direction. And since I like to think that someday I can be one of them (ha!), I don’t feel intimidated, but inspired instead.

Additionally, it really helped me to feel a lot less intimidated by the gym by having a couple of sessions with someone who really knew what they were doing. Since you’re with a trainer (who sounds awesome), hopefully you’ll get some confidence from that, as well.

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