Gym - Feeling Awkward in the Locker Room

Yeah, I feel a little awkward at the gym as well. I'm a self-conscious person. I avoid looking at anyone changing and try to change as quickly as possible. I don't think there's anything wrong with my body, I just don't like being undressed in front of anyone. So it's my inner insecurities and shyness that I have to deal with. If it makes you feel better, no one's perfect and many women there don't have a perfect body either.

 

This might seem bad but I just enjoy the occasional sneaky look

 

I know what you mean. Whenever I go into a locker room I always look at the floor because I don't want anyone to think I'm staring. :icon_redf Sometimes I even run into people because I'm not looking where I'm going! And whenever I accidentally look up, I find myself looking up for much too long...

 

I feel like a creeper looking around, but fortunately, I haven't been in a gym since before I came out.

Anyway, if you're more uncomfortable than the benefits of the gym can outweigh, there's always the option of working out at home. I recommend you watch Abs of Steel, if only because it's an old tape and the moves don't feel as stupid.

 

I was a bit awkward in the locker room at first, but I overcame that. I am a regular at my gym and have made a few 'gym friends' I have gotten to the point where I no longer feel awkward... Most of the time. If one of those friends happen to be in the locker room while I am, I can hold a short conversation and feel perfectly normal while doing it. I'm not to embarrassed to get undressed either.

I've will even go into the sauna (not coed), and the whirlpool (coed)

 

I feel ya, going into the locker room always felt weird for me, too. Though, honestly, I think a cursory glance is passable, as long as you're not leering. Try not to worry yourself.

 

Doesn't your gym have private showers and cubicles? :O I think it's totally normal not to want to be naked in front of a bunch of people...

 

I think I feel awkward not because of my orientation but just because...a lot of the time I just don't really want to see some strangers naked and then also be naked....think of it this way, I seriously doubt you're the only women who likes other women who goes to that gym

I also promise you that any one who decides to openly undress like that at a gym setting is likely aware that others will see...so it's not like you're invading their privacy if you accidentally see them...they are fully aware that if they change then others are bound to maybe see them naked. They probably just really comfortable with the idea and don't care. I think also, there is a stigma against men going to locker rooms whereas I feel like women tend to mind less when there are lesbians present...I don't know...that seems to be a common trend with me....there's almost like this sense of trust from women to women since I guess we tend to assume that the other knows how it feels like to be looked at inappropriately, so we expect that she wouldn't do that

 

Sure. The first time I went into the changing room at an all-female gym, I felt like an imposter/fraud and that everyone would know what I was (trans) and I'd be chased out with pitchforks and flaming torches.

But it turns out that most people in there are just as insecure about their bodies, nakedness and changing rooms, so I stopped worrying after the second time.

 

And now we found another good thing about having glasses, because in there u just put them off and u won't see anything yay

 

Change before you go? Or set it up to have time to change after. If dwimming leaves extra towels to cover your seat.

 

Some people just like showing off in a safe setting...so I can get what you're saying

 

Wow that's really *interesting* that they don't give you any privacy. I'm pretty sure that would be unthinkable in North America. Mind you some pools have public showers, but people usually stay dressed (at most, they pull down the top part if their swimsuit). Most newer pools have private showers. I remember as a teen in swim team, girls would freak out if some uninhibited old lady stripped in the showers.

As for privacy when changing, what I sometimes do is bring a mid-calf length jersey skirt with an elastic waist. I can pull it up or down as needed to cover myself, but it's loose enough to let me move so I can dress myself. Works pretty well.

 

Not at all, I go to the gym regularly, other than the very rare guy who makes me swoon, I feel comfortable.

 

I'm so lucky I have a weight set at my house -- I'm so bashful around others, and the only way I think I could go to the gym is with a buddy.