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Burpees Hesistance

  • 15-05-2014 12:28PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭


    I have been given a gym based program which includes weights but also exercises like burpee's etc. I have to say im worried about coming across as the fool doing burpees in the corner! I havent seen anyone doing similar before. Have people seen anyone doing similar in their gyms?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,873 ✭✭✭heroics


    it is quite common to see people doing burpies and similar exercises in the gym that I go to. You wont come across as a fool :)

    I do a number of excercises that I am fairly sure make me look ridiculous but the thing to remember is everyone looks the same doing burpies (Usually red faced and out of breath)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    I don't think people will give a monkeys as long as you aren't doing them in an area that would obstruct other people i.e right beside a db rack or in a squat rack or something :). Otherwise crack on and don't worry if people are looking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    No one will be looking at you.

    If you do them properly, you might even be a trendsetter... :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,221 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Don't worry about it! There are far stranger, less common exercises.

    For example, I was doing floor presses in the rack the other week and someone was giving me absolute filthies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    I was doing Turkish get-ups once and I started to realise a bunch of people were basically staring at me. I felt pretty self-conscious at the time, but I kept going because I figured it would look worse to look like I quit. Any way I finished up, and while I was catching my breath, one of the people watching me comes up and starts asking me about the exercise because he wants to try it himself. I'm 90% sure he wasn't taking the piss out of me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Sangre wrote: »
    I was doing floor presses in the rack the other week and someone was giving me absolute filthies.

    Don't mind him. He's only a kult, inallinanyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,873 ✭✭✭heroics


    Sangre wrote: »
    For example, I was doing floor presses in the rack the other week and someone was giving me absolute filthies.

    I'm telling tiddlypeeps


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Sangre wrote: »
    Don't worry about it! There are far stranger, less common exercises.

    Euro style baby.



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