Become Your Own Personal Trainer ; Fitness Novices Are Often Intimidated by the Thought of Being Trapped Inside a Gym Full of Men and Women with Great Physiques and Perfect-Form Exercises, and Are Embarrassed About How They May Look Like the Weaklings, Who Know Little or Nothing About How to Keep Fit.

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Fitness novices are often intimidated by the thought of being trapped inside a gym full of men and women with great physiques and perfect-form exercises, and are embarrassed about how they may look like the weaklings, who know little or nothing about how to keep fit. Yashwin Srinivas, a Men's Health reader who dropped 25 kgs to become a cover guy in September 2008, admits that for the first few weeks at the gym, he'd head straight to the one machine he knew how to operate the treadmill!

I was intimidated by the testosteronecharged weights section, so I went to the machines with soft mouldingsI think they were meant for women,he confesses.

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Become Your Own Personal Trainer ; Fitness Novices Are Often Intimidated by the Thought of Being Trapped Inside a Gym Full of Men and Women with Great Physiques and Perfect-Form Exercises, and Are Embarrassed About How They May Look Like the Weaklings, Who Know Little or Nothing About How to Keep Fit.

The good news first-time gymmers needn't worry any more! Besides magazines like Men's Health, every other newspaper and periodical (including Business Today) is ac...

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