Hey y'all,
I'm back at the gym for the first time in three or four years and while I'm definitely getting acclimated, I'm still feeling a little bit awkward.
There have been a couple of times I've gone to the gym with a plan and I've had to pivot because the machines that I've wanted to use have been busy, which is not a problem. Still getting a workout in. But yesterday, two of the machines I wanted to use were being held up by dudes on their phones. I figured, that's fine, maybe they're resting between sets. I just hung around and waited. After 5 minutes, neither of them had looked up from their phones. I wanted to ask if they were finished so that I could use the machine, but I felt so weird and kind of embarrassed, so I kind of just gave up and went to do my cool down. How do I approach these situations as someone who's a little anxious and still feeling a little bit of imposter syndrome even being there?
Thanks in advance ✌️