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anyone else dreading the influx of newbies at the gym

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ElizabethHoover · 01/01/2015 10:02

i love them COMING -just hate the effects on classes.

Last year I reckon most of them give up by half term or March - what do you think?>

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Pagwatch · 01/01/2015 10:40

I Went to a Zumba taster class and there was a woman behind me in wedge sandals.

I loved her! I wish she'd signed up. She was singing along to music with no words.

MrsMcRuff · 01/01/2015 10:41

If gym overcrowding is such a problem (who knew?), why not have an advanced class where all the super-fit can move to, thus leaving plenty of room for 'newbies' in a beginners class? Is that not how it works?

Pagwatch · 01/01/2015 10:41

The nice thing at this time of the year is the Christmas present kit.

ivykaty44 · 01/01/2015 10:42

Quint my gym is putting the price up and up for new members - not to keep the price down for other members but because they know they can as people will pay it seems....

TheFourthLobster · 01/01/2015 10:42

Yes, it means we can't park when taking my DCs for swimming training because the car park is full to overflowing.

Pagwatch · 01/01/2015 10:42

Christ people are pissy.

I'm 53 with a bad back that I've just had to have an MRI on. It's nothing to do with the super fit.

Jeez.

DustInTheWind · 01/01/2015 10:46

It's one of the many reasons I avoid gyms at all times, too much like an extended PE lesson at secondary school, complete with arrogant judginess.
Rather walk, sail, shoot and dig to get fit, very few lycra gymbunnies to be found.

DustInTheWind · 01/01/2015 10:48

'Christ people are pissy.'

Perhaps some of them are summoning up the courage to do something about their weight and fitness levels and are already anticipating facing attitudes like the OP's?

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ElizabethHoover · 01/01/2015 10:48

i got new shoes Paggy!
it makes me realise how truly terrible my other 5 year old ones were

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Pagwatch · 01/01/2015 10:48

There are very few gym bunnies at my gym.regulars are not gym bunnies. That's pretty judgy itself.

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ElizabethHoover · 01/01/2015 10:49

the ops attitude is that she hates the fly by night gym arrivals in January
I am not advocating wholesale slaughter of kittens

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Quiero · 01/01/2015 10:49

It's interesting how people interpret posts to be about whatever their insecurity is.

I see the same thing at Slimming World, hardly any of the Jan joiners are still there in March.

I don't think I've ever finished anything I started in January. It's really not the best time. Some of my best diet attempts have started in November.

GoodKingQuintless · 01/01/2015 10:49

True, you find a much friendlier crowd at the common, along the river, etc.

ilovepowerhoop · 01/01/2015 10:50

I don't think I could be described as a lycra gym bunny (now that would scare people away!)

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ElizabethHoover · 01/01/2015 10:52

aw

anyone else dreading the influx of newbies at the gym
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Pagwatch · 01/01/2015 10:52

It's not an attitude toward new people joining the gym.

It's voicing an irritation that loads of people will turn up, make life a bit harder for a few weeks, and then disappear.

It's pretty hard for me to get to the gym. I often struggle to book in advance. So for the next few weeks getting to the sessions which help my bad gets to be really hard. That's annoying - especially when I know from experience they just disappear.

It's nothing to do with judging people committing properly to a life change.

MorrisZapp · 01/01/2015 10:52

Totally Yanbu. They all vanish when they don't turn into Jennifer Aniston after three classes.

ilovepowerhoop · 01/01/2015 10:53

I first started going to classes on my birthday in November. It took a long time to make going to the gym part of my routine. Now I get annoyed if things get in the way of going.

MrsMcRuff · 01/01/2015 10:53

But I genuinely thought that there were beginner and advanced classes to separate the, well, beginners from the more experienced gym-goers?

DustInTheWind · 01/01/2015 10:53

Yup, I'm not denying that I'm judgy. Grin
I have several serious fitness enthusiasts amongs friends and relatives and some of them manage to be fit and encouraging to others at the same time. Some don't.
Enjoy your shiny new kit and Christmas gadgets for measuring and setting challenges and perhaps suggest to your gym that they have separate short-term classes for the influx of hopeful and doomed temporary enthusiasts.

ilovepowerhoop · 01/01/2015 10:53

Have now booked 4 classes so far for next week

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ElizabethHoover · 01/01/2015 10:53

powerhoop - specially kids or work - FGS Wink

there was no mention of weight or clothing in this - but yes, interpret away!

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Pagwatch · 01/01/2015 10:54

It's interesting how people interpret posts to be about whatever their insecurity is.

I see the same thing at Slimming World, hardly any of the Jan joiners are still there in March.

I don't think I've ever finished anything I started in January. It's really not the best time. Some of my best diet attempts have started in November.

Yes. Exactly.

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ElizabethHoover · 01/01/2015 10:54

mcruff - great idea, that would work in jan I think. Gyms don't seem to do this though, Our starter or beginner things rarely are for beginners

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ilovepowerhoop · 01/01/2015 10:55

No there aren't separate classes for newbies. My first ever class was body pump - could barely walk down stairs or get off the toilet for about a week afterwards! still go back though