I have bad anxiety about starting stronglifts. Considering joining a program with a trainer.t

I have bad anxiety about starting stronglifts. Considering joining a program with a trainer.tI was in decent shape in high school, regularly lifting weights and playing on multiple hockey teams. It's been ten years since then and I'm currently 160lb at 5'8" with a solid beer belly and general dissatisfaction with my body and health. I started biking to work and now I'm almost ready to join a gym but I have really bad anxiety In life and I'm scared shitless at the thought of those first few weeks at a new gym. Its not my lack of strength that makes me anxious but simply gym etiquette and looking like a fool and those first few days where I'm lifting just the bar and figuring out my starting weights. I live in the Bay Area, CA where all gyms seem to very packed and busy and I'd like to give the SL 5x5 program a shot so I'd be fighting for time on a bench or power rack. I also work 9-5 and will have to go at the busy hours. It seems a more realistic option for me would be to start with a program lead by a trainer. I found a fundamentals weight lifting program near my work that centers around a half dozen lifts, four of which are in the SL 5x5 routine. Is this a common means of easing into working out on your own? A few months in a program or one on one with a trainer? Or would it be a waste of time/money for such a beginner looking to start a basic routine? submitted by /u/buresrollerskates [link] [comments]

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