Woman too ashamed to stay at gym today
on 11/1/16 12:31 pm
A new woman joined our gym and tried to participate in the most difficult class of the week. I struggle but get it done. She kept saying I don't belong here, I'm too out of shape. I offered to work with her. " I can't keep up with you, yes you can I said" and she completed 30 of 60 Min of class. HIIT and bar lifting. I love it!
I tried to help make her feel like part of the group. Could she do what I do for years ....no. But she started. You gotta take that 1 st step kudos to her.
Keep encouraging her! We all need each others encouragement, here, and out in the real world!
"...This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing..."
Rachel, PMHNP-BC
HW-271 SW-260 LW(2009)-144 ~ Retread: HW-241 CW-190 GW-150
Doesn't seem she was "ashamed" --- she apparently bit off more than she could chew by starting with a difficult class. Not everyone does things the Jillian Michaels way where you end up vomiting because you're making yourself sick by overdoing it. I would have encouraged her to take it slow and steady. Hopefully she'll return and take an easier class to begin with.
HW: 380 SW: 324 GW: 175
You need to be careful not to push people beyond what they can do. Someone can get really hurt. And it will be your fault.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
