thescholarlystrumpetHi folks!

Not fandom related so feel free to skip over.

I started a fitness side blog (@cokebottlethunderthighs) but didn’t make much use of it when I was working. As of next week, I’ll be a full time student and part time intern. So without the 40 hour week, I feel I have no excuses.

Does anyone have any suggestions for realistic fitspo blogs? Like, not all muscles all the time, gym or death stuff. Just motivation, community, and preferably cheap, healthy recipes.

Also, if anyone wants to get fit with me, that would be cool 😋

emospriteletI’ll get fit with you! I’ve just started running again after being a lazy bitch for years, so it would be good to have a fitness buddy!

Ditto on the blog recs, guys!

endangeredslug*glares at the versaclimber behind me*
*barely raises hand*

*grudgingly whispers* me

emospriteletOh, you have a versaclimber? I used to love that at the gym, I remember thinking I was really fit, and then trying it for the first time and thinking I was gonna die after 3 minutes. Great workout, once I got used to it

endangeredslugYes! Which is why I hate the thing. But I am also massively out of shape.

emospriteletIt gets easier. I could pound that bad boy for 40 minutes on a good day

endangeredslugYeah, I know. I’m just… really… lazy.

thescholarlystrumpet@emospritelet – wait… are you still talking about fitness? ::raises eyebrow::

@endangeredslug – meeeee toooooo. Which is why I need everyone to kick me in my expanding behind 😝

Ladies! Let’s do this thing! @maplesyrupao3 has also agreed to join. It could be a #RumbelleFitnessClub! 😋

emospriteletYAY! I love that idea! I’m in!

endangeredslug*grunts acceptance*

You can count me in for the fitness club as well! I’ve recently started back up at the gym after a year out, aiming to go around 3x a week. I’m incredibly unfit, my fast pace is like other peoples warm up pace (in my defense I am short, so my stride isn’t all that big) but we all have to start somewhere I guess 🙂

worryinglyinnocent:

How do people exercise? I mean, seriously, how do you do it? What kind of strange magic do you possess and can I have some?

I’m a chubby ducky and need to trim down, but I have this complete mental block whereby I can’t join a gym because I have never been to one before and I’m so incredibly scared of looking like an idiot. How do you make that first step and go in and ask how to work a machine-that-I-don’t-even-know-what-it-is-called-and-looks-like-it-could-strangle-me? How do you deal with all the super-toned super-thin gym bunnies looking at you and laughing at you because you’re on the lowest setting of this unnamed-and-terrifying-machine? How do you deal with the epic fear of crushing public humiliation?

Same thing applies to running (because other people will see me and therefore laugh at me) and joining exercise classes (because ditto). 

I feel like I need to lose a stone before I even start exercising just to save face. I have much respect for not-stick-thin people who go to the gym and I offer you many high fives. 

I am very unfit and I’m also very short. In the past when I went to the gym and went on the treadmill, I would have it set on speed 6, and I could only keep that up at first for about 20 seconds and I would be gasping for breath and have to take it down to speed 2 or 3. Then someone would come next to me and speed 6 would be their walking pace and speed 11 or something would be their running pace. So I get it.

Basically go when the gym is quiet and when it’s only the “serious” people because they don’t give a damn what anyone else does. When I went I got up at 7am and went for when it opened. Everyone was too busy getting on with their workout before they went to work, to look twice at me. I know that sounds strange, to go when it’s the “fit people” time but trust me I did go later in the day once and that’s when the “housewives” were there and they are the ones that look at you, and giggle and gossip.

When you originally sign up, they give you a tour of the gym and explain stuff. Though to be honest the machines all have instructions and it’s not that hard to figure out, especially if you don’t use the fancy programs. I could never use the fancy programs because I wasn’t fit enough. I had to adjust the speed etc. manually.

Take an MP3 player, headphones and work out an exercise plan before you go. Keep records of everything you do, and incrementally increase it after a couple of weeks. Rinse and repeat. Basically move with purpose and everyone will ignore you.

I would stay clear of the classes until you feel more confident. Exercising alone means no judgement, you are only competing against yourself. There’s no concern for embarrassment because only you know what you are attempting to do that day. I could never have gone to the gym with anyone else, it’s something I could only do solo. Just following my plan, keeping my head down, getting on with it and yeah ignoring everyone.

You can do it!