By Morgan Oakes<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t go to Fitrec, it\u2019s too scary.\u201d is a sentence I\u2019ve heard too many times to count. When I counter this by saying that I work out there all the time and feel completely confident, I am often met with confusion. Adding the fact that I am a woman claiming to be unintimidated by FitRec confuses some of my friends even more. I believe this confusion is misplaced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Before I came to college, I never worked out, mainly because my high school schedule didn\u2019t allow me to. A secondary reason, though, was that I was scared to step foot in a gym and unsure how to use any of the equipment. I was afraid of even trying, out of concern that people working out around me would judge me for my inability.<\/span><\/p>\n However, when I arrived at BU and stepped into the multi-floor, ginormous gym for the first time, I immediately decided I had to at least give working out a shot. At first, I felt overwhelmed by FitRec, but during the fall of my sophomore year I took a PDP class on the foundations of weightlifting, where I gradually became more familiar with all that the gym had to offer. Now, I work out multiple times a week, and can\u2019t remember the last time I felt uncomfortable. Additionally, I have never felt at all judged by anyone around me, and I find the environment to be warm and welcoming. I advise any student at BU, new or old, to give working out at FitRec a chance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Morgan Oakes \u201cI can\u2019t go to Fitrec, it\u2019s too scary.\u201d is a sentence I\u2019ve heard too many times to count. When I counter this by saying that I work out there all the time and feel completely confident, I am often met with confusion. Adding the fact that I am a woman claiming to … Continue reading Morgan: Don’t Be Afraid of FitRec<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44303],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}