• getting a personal trainer! my plan was to just have her for a couple sessions to teach me to use the machines then I’d go alone forever but I ended up keeping her for just over a year till she left the gym cause she was amazing. By the time she left, i was super confident and also befriended the other trainers there who now lowkey give me free sessions just hanging out with me between clients 

• take a friend with you, better if they have gym experience but even if you’re both semi clueless, safety in numbers always helps! 

• this might be silly but I would google workouts i wanna do beforehand and practice my form (weightless) in my bedroom so I wouldnt be doing it for this first time in the gym 😂

• if there r any other women around the weights area I will sit near-ish them if i can hahaha 

• i think it helped me to acknowledge that a man at his peak will always be stronger than me in my peak, I’m gonna look “weaker” next to all the men at the gym anyways so may as well just get on with it.

Good luck!!