How does one get over gym anxiety? I feel so out of place next

Isn't SS just three sets of 5?

What the fuck takes so long?

Had gym anxiety for a while.

Honestly you have to force yourself to go. Fake it till you make it - act like you don't give a fuck and pretty soon you won't

>>41741077
just stare at the floor like the rest of us autists

>>41742250

Really this is the only option outside of a home gym or bw regiment. It sucks but what else are you going to do.

>>41741077
honestly nobody else cares, just keep doing you. You'll get there eventually.

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>>41741077
Uni Chad here.

Don't be scared man, just relax and do your thing. We're all gonna make it (except the PL manlets, fuck em)

>>41742250
This. I was like that too and I went until I was confident the only way to beat it is by getting bigger

I was like this too. You'll never make it until you realize that lifting is both a physical and mental exercise. You have to accept that you're smaller and weaker, and go anyways despite the fact that you feel uncomfortable as fuck

>>41741077
>go to gym one time
>linebacker for football team is working out there for some reason other than the football gym?
>he is doing one armed curls with a 100lb dumbell while like 10 people watch him in a semicircle

nigga got drafted and played a few years too. how the fuck. do you curl 100 lb. with one arm. the guys that actually make it to the nfl are fucking genetic freaks

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Honestly, don't use or bring your phone. It helped out my anxiety huge. It helps you relax a lot more, and if you need to time yourself then you can just use a watch or look at the clock.

>>41745747

Chad doesn't know what a 4chan is.

if you have gym anxiety you will NEVER\ make it

I started as a skinny with crippling anxiety, only way for me to go to the gym was to go during the night or dawn when it was empty. I think progressively as I got fitter and more confident about what I was doing I stopped caring about it and started going during the day more often. Most people view the gym has a place for physical gains only but it single handedly cured my anxiety problems in the process.

Go at 1am when no one is there.

>>41741352
if you squat for 3 heavy sets of 5, and then press for 3 heavy sets of 5, you could easily kill that amount of time.
5 min warm up for squats, 3-4 mins between sets, ~15 minutes. once you account for long breaks, changing weight, talking, refilling water bottles, it's easy to kill another few minutes without noticing. not very unreasonable for someone to take 30-40 minutes to do most of their workout

>>41749341
>3-4 mins between sets
unless you're powerlifting heavy triplets, there's no need for such a long rest. particularly not as an SS beginner.

>>41749579
when you're an early beginner, it's important to milk every pound out of linear progression. when i was on SS, i waited as long as possible to deload and it worked well for me. also, some people just have shit work capacity and need longer breaks in between high RPE sets.
a lot of people don't realize their GPP is fucking shite until they're already past noobie gains.

>>41749620
This