anyone else dreading the influx of newbies at the gym

[ElizabethHoover]

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?>

[Pagwatch]

There are some really weird views on here about who use gyms

Do the people posting about shiny kit and challenges and advanced posers actually use a gym?

It's not like that at all.

[Bartlebee]

Yes, my friend and I were discussing this at spinning yesterday. We'll have a month of bun fights to get a bike & no spaces in the car park, then it will be back to normal.

You can't book classes but have to put your name down 15 minutes beforehand.

[ElizabethHoover]

I agree - most people at gym are 30 plus.
there is a handful of be eyelashed and made up tiny girls who hang out near their boyfriends at the weight area

the rest look fricken awful like me

[DustInTheWind]

If they aren't running classes for beginners, that might explain why some of them drop out then. I go to an advanced German class, who in their right mind would expect s beginner to leap in and cope?

[Pagwatch]

Yep. I look scary.
I have to do some of my exercises in front of a mirror. It makes me want to cry a bit.

[ElizabethHoover]

i think most classes are differentiated - certainly in pump or spin the instructor will give options to make things easier or harder

[Pagwatch]

Dustinthewind

Most classes are just classes, a few are advanced.
You do a class to the best of your ability with things built in to help you make it harder or modify it depending on your level.
The instructor will ask at the start if anyone is new and will help with extra advice.

[DustInTheWind]

'Do the people posting about shiny kit and challenges and advanced posers actually use a gym?'

No, but as I said, I have relatives and friends who do and are happy to talk about it. We have a large number of runners and cyclists round here too who take things very seriously. It's first-hand observation rather than participation, and second-hand accounts.
All OP has to do is be patient for a couple of months and the problem will sort itself out.

[Pagwatch]

It makes it more of a problem for me because my back injury means. I'm currently in all the basic classes.
I suspect I will not get a class for the next month.

[DustInTheWind]

'The instructor will ask at the start if anyone is new and will help with extra advice.'

Which probably slows down the rest of the class. Plus they use the equipment and don't know how to do it properly, and the regulars have less time on certain kit because they have to share with more people.

[ilovepowerhoop]

There are normally options given in the classes to make them easier or harder depending on whether you are new or a regular eg use lower weights to start with in body pump, use lower impact options in body attack, don't do the leg/arm moves in powerhoop (as you can see I go to classes rather than the gym itself)

[ElizabethHoover]

i dont want to be patient

[Knottyknitter]

They aren't advanced classes either dust, more multilevel where there are different options for every exercise and you choose your poison. Different times for different abilities is trouble too, and you will often end up with people doing both or the one they want time wise to fit around life anyway.

Enthusiastic starters (including me a few years ago) tend to overestimate what they can do and go in too hard.

In a normal class the instructor can notice this and correct posture etc before you hurt yourself, but in a packed New year class it's much harder for them to pick out the struggled amongst a room full of New people rather than one or two new people in a room full of regulars who can be left a bit more to their own devices.

Regulars will generally not even notice the instructor doing this btw, unless they are trainers or gym class teachers themselves, as its all usually very subtle. Demos in January are very unlikely to show the additional difficulty level esp at the start of the class though!

[ElizabethHoover]

do you LOVE power hoop, ilovepowerhoop?

[DustInTheWind]

It's part of being a grown-up that most of us find hard.

[Tiredemma]

I vomited in 'BodyPump' (first class)

Never went back again. My friend who was in the class with me pissed herself (properly wet herself).

[ilovepowerhoop]

och it's not too bad

[Pagwatch]

Dustinthewind

'Do the people posting about shiny kit and challenges and advanced posers actually use a gym?'

"No, but as I said, I have relatives and friends who do and are happy to talk about it. We have a large number of runners and cyclists round here too who take things very seriously. It's first-hand observation rather than participation, and second-hand accounts."

So that's a no then?

[ElizabethHoover]

how much weight did you put on?!!!!
I think first Body pump I just put on the lightest weight all through. Still couldn't stand for days. I got REALLY into it at one point and was lifting two houses on each side
I haven't been for ages and the memory is there slightly but it gets your thighs like a fecker

[HolgerDanske]

Heheheh I'm going to be that person this year

I am slightly concerned at being viewed with disdain by the regulars, but I console myself with the fact that I used to be one of those regulars and I will be again before too long!

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

I don't go to the gym but have 3 near me. One is absolutely full of posers - both male and female. Why do you need fake lashes at the gym?! I'd love to go after I give birth though

[DustInTheWind]

Just checking that my first post hadn't been deleted Pag:

'It's one of the many reasons I avoid gyms at all times'

[ElizabethHoover]

holger you come and KEEP COMING and we will adore you! I am always smiley and kind to newbies as I want them to love the class as much as I do. Like an evangelist, 'cept no God and stuff

[GoodKingQuintless]

I think many of you should have your own gym, and gym instructor!

It beats sharing the gym, I am sure....

[Quiero]

Tiredemma you and your friend sound much more of a worry than the gym bunnies