Not everyone has room at home. I have a barbell, a few dumbbells, a pull-up bar, and my own body weight, and go everywhere on my bicycle, but I also go to the gym because there are exercises I want to do that I can’t do at home.
Gyms can also provide training (of variable quality, but everything on the market is of variable quality), and communal activities like Cross-Fit. A gym is a resource to be used.
The guys lifting big weights are seeing to their own business. They are not thinking about you, and you need not think about them, except as an inspiration to become them.
I see a lot of people at the gym much stronger than me, and and a lot much less strong. But we are all doing the same thing: what we can.
There are people for whom communal activities are valuable. When it however comes to people who feel uncomfortable with company while exercising I don’t see why they would go.
If being fat is a problem for this hypothetical person, that makes embarrassment about using a gym also a problem. Maybe they can work around that problem instead of solving it, but it still would be valuable to them to solve it.
Not everyone has room at home. I have a barbell, a few dumbbells, a pull-up bar, and my own body weight, and go everywhere on my bicycle, but I also go to the gym because there are exercises I want to do that I can’t do at home.
Gyms can also provide training (of variable quality, but everything on the market is of variable quality), and communal activities like Cross-Fit. A gym is a resource to be used.
The guys lifting big weights are seeing to their own business. They are not thinking about you, and you need not think about them, except as an inspiration to become them.
I see a lot of people at the gym much stronger than me, and and a lot much less strong. But we are all doing the same thing: what we can.
There are people for whom communal activities are valuable. When it however comes to people who feel uncomfortable with company while exercising I don’t see why they would go.
If being fat is a problem for this hypothetical person, that makes embarrassment about using a gym also a problem. Maybe they can work around that problem instead of solving it, but it still would be valuable to them to solve it.
They usually don’t, which is sort of the thrust of the OP.