im ok going to elite weightrooms and lifting peanuts weights, 0 insecurity or fear of looking like an idiot and taking up too much space. now i want to leanmaxx and have unexpectedly found i am kind of afraid of running outside, i dont really know how to do it. what if i run into someone. what have i become
I get the feeling. Best thing I can say is that once you are running and feeling good (i.e. fluid movements, no stiffness, pain or difficulty breathing) you don't give as much of a fuck if people see you. So just take a walk until you are in a more or less empty part of wherever you can run and then start to run. If you feel extra awkward, get a dog from someone you know to take on a walk and only run intermittently when the dog isn't busy taking a dump on the sidewalk. If dog turds are illegal where you live, you have extra incentive to start running away, too.
I used to go out at 3 am and run up and down a 50 meter stretch of parkI was autistic and gay. You have nothing to fear
>>77343599imagine if you're confronted by the neighbor saying you keep triggering their ring doorbells at 3AM>>77343552Strangers used to say hi or nod their head when I jog past. post covid people just keep to themselves now, looking straight ahead and not at me when they walk past. Often times they even cross the street before I get there. I don't know if it was covid that did it but the sense of community has diminished over the past 5 years
>>77343614The neighbor who lives... on the highway?
>>77343552Starting on concrete can be hard on your joints anyway. Make the investment to start off on grass for a month or two before transitioning to concrete. You’ll see fewer people and you’re less likely to run straight into shin splints.
>>77343620If you're gonna start on grass go barefoot
>>77343552In the gym you are in the same space with people for the whole duration you are there whereas running outdoors you only are seen for maybe 5 seconds.
>>77343623i dont want to step on a needlei think ill just start on a treadmill but idk what im doing
>>77343552the other day I saw this fat dude jogging with the craziest sweat stains, looked like a rosharch test, in the next 30 seconds after he rounded the corner I was already moving on thinking about what bbws ill jack off to that nightno one cares op, go roon
>>77343552Buy a handgun and a holster, learn to shoot, get an LTC if you need one in your state, start carrying it. This is the method.
