How to work with gym intimidation without avoiding the gym

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This winter I got reminded of feeling intimidated when I picked up rollerblading.

Imagine going down a busy road, a helmet on, tripping, moving as slow as a turtle, and the wind blowing so hard that you pick up some speed but can’t stop. That’s me. Feeling intimidated, sure, and doing it anyway.

Gyms can get tricky, too, I know. These tricks and mindset shifts help my most intimidated clients get comfortable with working out and with being seen at their sweatiest session.

1. Gym is a strange place by definition. Where else can a group of people get together to sweat, grunt, look weird, and make themselves feel uncomfortable. Accept it.

2. What areas of your life do you feel confident about? Bring that feeling to a workout with you.

3. Wear your most comfortable and well fitting workout clothes.

4. Hire a trainer even for just a few initial sessions. Pick her or his brain. Have them teach you how to set up machines and how to use free weights.

5. Have a trainer teach you the workout lingo.

6. Tell the trainer about any exercise, place, weight, or machine that make you feel really awkward. We’re here to make the gym your safe playground.

7. Keep showing up. Knowledge + practice = confidence.

8. Make mistakes. Being new is the best spot to make mistakes, just don’t drop a dumbbell on your toe. A trainer, especially in the beginning, will save you from many injuries.

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How long will it take to tone up?

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I know we’re all impatient. Now more impatient than ever because our lives have been put on a year long pause and we want to get results yesterday. 

How fast you get noticeable results from exercising and dieting depends on a few factors: how dramatic of a change you want to see, how far you are from it, and the effort you’re willing to put in. The effort being the most valuable factor. 

It will take a beginner to intermediate trainee 8-12 weeks to drop about 10-15 lbs of fat. That will result in looking leaner, tighter and more athletic. 

If you are already lean and want to build, it can take 24 and more weeks to put on significant amount of muscle on. 

For some it might be all of the results they need to see. So they will get into the program and out into a maintenance phase. While it’ll be only a beginning of their fitness journey for others.


So many individual factors go into determining success of a client’s journey. How much time can you make for training? How consistent can you get with your nutrition? Will you put in effort into the bonus steps that speed up your results? How patient are you willing to become? This is why training is, in fact, PERSONAL. Even one consultation will show what you can do better. 


In general, no matter your goal, 8 weeks will show if you’re on the right path. If nothing is happening in that time, something needs to change.

Bring on those post pandemic gains! Click here to schedule your initial consultation.