My name is Uliana I'm a personal trader, Personal Trainer...
My name is Uliana I work for Nuffield Health
in Shoreditch. Hi I'm Dave, I'm a Wellbeing Personal Trainer at Leatherhead. Hi my name
is Rupi I'm from Leeds (The Light) club. Can't remember that far back. I was fourteen the first
time I ever set foot in the gym. I remember my rugby coach telling me "you have to get
bigger". You know people wearing the nice lycra and there's guys working in the weights area
and there's kettlebells being used and I had no idea what I was doing and I was scared.
Difficult initially, trying to learn different movements, trying to understand how all this
technology worked and how it was going to help me. My body was sore for about two to
three days. Ah this is really cool, I have no idea what I'm doing and I put all the weight
down to the top and couldn't move any of it. Overall, after all the soreness was finished,
I did actually feel quite good. I found that I loved it, I got some really good advice
from a trainer at the gym, showed me how to use everything and from then on felt a bit more
comfortable, made me come back more and helped me long-term. One time I was running on a
treadmill. I was instructing a class. Playing around with a friend in the gym. I looked,
turned to the side and as I've looked I started to drift. I literally shuffled forward and
as I went back I slammed right back into the mirror and knocked my head and fell flat on
my face and it was on camera. Decides to try and pull my trousers down. Unfortunately boxers
come down at the same point, ummm... My foot's obviously caught the stead bit on the side
and luckily as I've gone down, I managed to catch on to the bars. Probably one of the
most embarrassing points of being in the gym but, I can look back and laugh at it. At the
end of the day it's just a little bit of fun. Yeah, that wasn't, that wasn't funny at all. When you're
having that feeling of like there's a big label on you saying 'this is my first time', just
try and remember that everyone had their first time some time, so everyone understands how
it feels and probably felt like that at some point themselves. There's no easy answer for
people who are taking their first step into the gym. Never feel self-conscious about being
in the gym. It's just your own self-conscious amplifying a lot of things that aren't really
there. Speak to people. If you're really nervous don't try and go it alone. I was petrified of the
gym floor myself. It was only from the help of a Personal Trainer that got me comfortable
on the gym floor that I managed to transition. Best thing to do would be try things, just
try things. Always seek help, if you find it so nerve wracking going into the gym, a
class or whatever, seek help. Just try and do it with people because if you are nervous,
doing it alone doesn't always work. Talk to one of the staff, straight away. They're there
to help, they're there to advise, give you the best knowledge you can get to get you
where you need to be. You can start getting motivation and tips of them and it makes it
a lot more enjoyable experience at that point. Don't be scared to ask people, people will
always be happy to help. You'd probably be surprised that the ones that look the stoniest
faced, if you actually went up to them and said "do you mind showing me how to use this
machine because it's my first time?" That they would probably be more than happy to
because they are probably remembering their first time when they didn't know how to use
the machine and how awful it was. The more advice you get, the better off you are. Knowledge
is power. In reality all you're trying to do is better yourself, so you shouldn't be
nervous about trying to improve your own wellbeing at the end of the day. Don't be afraid to
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