Don’t buy the January lie. No way can a newbie look cool at the gym | Zoe Williams

You’re in pyjamas in a zumba class, or is it pump? The regulars snigger at all your moves. This is the hell of new year, new-you get-fit

There’s a droll Twitter account named Very British Problems that is mainly about over-apologising. It just summed up winter: “December: A lot of people doing the pub wrong. January: A lot of people doing the gym wrong. February: Pancakes.” Amateurs ruin everything until pancakes, in which we are all amateurs.

It’s too late for a discourse on pub etiquette, which is moot, anyway. The main way to do the pub wrong is to get too drunk and sloppy. But the seasoned drinker only pretends to mind: really, we see you as learner drivers, a darned nuisance but necessary, if we want to bring up the next generation of binge drinkers.

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