Women are scary! Blog Discussion

MSE_Jenny

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's "Women are scary!" blog. Please read the blog first, as the discussion follows it.

Read Martin's "Women are scary!" Blog

love_lifer

most women arent too scary....but i do think any group of another gender/race/age can be intimidating though. maybe get there a bit earlier and join in the melee? or perhaps you arent as desperate as the housewives.
i think when ive been in a simiilar situation at the gym i feel fine getting on with it but i reckon id struggle if it was opp sex crowd too. actually, just forget it and go to the bar, much more civilized

Scarlett1

see you men know your place, get in the way of a woman and she will take you out

nearlyrich

Give it a few weeks and most of them will be on the sofa with a glass of wine and a chocolate bar watching the tv again, January in a gym is not for the fainthearted LOL.

MSE_Martin

I actually went yesterday - will blog it soon - can hardly walk!

jezebel

My sister is a part-time gym instructor (in good MSE fashion using it to pay her way through Post Grad). She regularly teaches classes of Body Combat, Boxercise and Aerobics and quite often takes 2 or 3 classes in a row. Definitely think that classes are a good way to work out and meet some friendly people, even if I don't go to the Gym myself

Caparn

A bit of a sexist article. I think your fear of women made you stand back a bit too much.

Crabman

Caparn wrote:

A bit of a sexist article. I think your fear of women made you stand back a bit too much.

Bah, if you'd watched the Wright Stuff this morning you'd have seen the discussion about how angry and violent hormonal women can be :rotfl:

Kim141179

I did Body Pump, couldn't walk for three days (and I'm fairly fit!) -so don;t do it! I do Body Combat, which is great, though I can't even get a place this month because of the January Joiners, grrr!

loumac

Stick with it Martin body pump is a really good class! You soon learn to push your way in with the rest of them, in fact it's all part of the warm up. :rolleyes:

I personally enjoy body attack if your gym offer it. Good luck though!

And well done you for trying to keep fit. :j :j :j

mini

we call January joiners Turkey burners, it is entertaining to see the newbies turn up eveyday for a week never to be seen again.

I question the first come first served type class? We book in & there is a reserve list, how do you plan your training otherwise? Personally though I'd be fighting for a place at the back!