If you can phrase it to make it clear that you want them to go to help YOU, and you ask people who are clearly both in better shape than you and not, then I think it'd go over okay.

I've gone to yoga classes with friends.

Anonymous wrote:I would send an email and say "I want to try this boot camp but I'm afraid of doing it alone! I could use the moral support and accountability. Anyone care to join me?"

+2. Or just mention it next time you're hanging out and ask the question with more or less the same phrasing above. I had a friend ask me this recently and it didn't occur to me to be offended. (But I still declined since it was at 5:30 am and I don't do mornings!)

I wouldn't be offended at all. (And while I am fit, I am a bit overweight)

Anonymous wrote:I would send an email and say "I want to try this boot camp but I'm afraid of doing it alone! I could use the moral support and accountability. Anyone care to join me?"

This! I also post the link on Facebook and say you want to go and need some friends for motivation. You never know who might be willing to join you.

I recruited some friends for a bootcamp class. Didn't think twice about it and hope they weren't offended!!!!

My parents once offered to get me a gym membership for Christmas.

I was kind of offended.

(But I took them up on it - generous gift! Chose one with a pool.)

I would send an email and say "I want to try this boot camp but I'm afraid of doing it alone! I could use the moral support and accountability. Anyone care to join me?"

I would totally not be offended if someone mentioned it to me and I don't think many people would.

I would say that you want to try the boot camp class but know that your motivation might wane and you need an incentive. Doing it with a friend would get you to go regularly if you knew that people were depending on your. Phrase it in a way that you want these friends to join you for the fitness but also for your motivation.

Several years ago I lost a lot of weight (73 lbs in about 8 months) and I've kept it off. I know that I "look good" and I get lots of compliments on my body, yet I still have a lot of insecurity about it. I think if someone invited me to a fitness class I *might* take it the wrong way--depending on how it was asked, and just my mood of the day.

One way to phrase it that might help is "Janet, you are so fit and look like you enjoy working out a lot. Have you ever tried the XYZ bootcamp class? They're going to start a class in our neighborhood and I was wondering if you want to join me" or something like that.

You're overthinking it.

There is a ladies' boot camp starting in my neighborhood this summer. I'd really like to sign up but also know that I'll be more motivated to actually go if a friend will be there as well. I have a couple of new neighbor friends that I'd like to invite but I'm afraid they might take it the wrong way. They are not overweight at all but I just don't know them that well and I'm concerned they will be offended. Am I overthinking this? What do you think?