Hi friends, so this week we're talking about gym anxiety and I'm gonna tell you all my tips and tricks

And I'm gonna give you a couple mindset shifts and perspectives to take on so that you feel less anxious at the gym

Because I remember what it's like to be new and I struggle with it for so fucking long

So the way that I actually started getting into fitness was I was 14 and I was a fat little shit

Like I was just a little porky and I was too embarrassed and like shy to go to a gym

So I begged my dad to buy me the little workout program that you do at home called P90X

It's not the best thing there is but it's what got me started so for like six months

I just did P90X at home and just worked out from my fucking living room

I put on my little CD and fucking do what they did on the TV and I had some weights and I just did my shit

After a while of doing that after getting comfortable with my body and the way that I looked and

After getting comfortable with doing certain exercises and getting the form right then I felt comfortable enough to go to a gym

But there's so much anxiety around that shit like it just seems like that's a big task to do and

I'm gonna tell you all the things that have helped me so the way I kind of have this episode laid out is we're gonna talk about

All my like general confidence tips like just random shit

You need to know and like shift in your mind so you feel more confident and then I'm gonna go through what to do if you're a beginner

So like my main steps that I would tell someone that's a beginner like newbie to the gym and newbie to working out

I'm gonna give you like a rundown for that

But I'm gonna hit like the applicable things to everybody at the beginning and then we'll get to the beginners

But everything for the beginners is also applicable to every Josh Mel

So let's just jump into this shit cuz I have a lot to say so the first thing

It's like a general tip and kind of like thing you need to realize about going to the gym is the gym is the expected place for you to go

To work on your body and to want to improve yourself like that is very much the obvious place to go to do that

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