what annoying questions or comments do people who you see day to day make (lifting re

sara · 05-05-2007, 04:45 PM

what annoying questions or comments do people who you see day to day make (lifting related)

I hate it when they say:
"thats not normal" , "how much do you bench"

what do people say to you that you dont have any idea how to respond with or just dont want to

NordicNacho · 05-05-2007, 04:48 PM

Im 6'7'

Do you know how many times people have asked me If i play basketball?

How tall are you?

Witchblade · 05-05-2007, 06:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NordicNacho

Do you know how many times people have asked me If i play basketball?

Well, do you?

People always ask me "Why do you work out?" Like, Duh.

THEUNIT(XXL) · 05-06-2007, 04:34 AM

Well, I always know how to respond, but I don't want to most of the time, becauce it's always the same questions, "what do you do for chest?" "What do you do for arms" And then the same with almost every musclegroup, they whant to be like me, but then when I tell them what I do for those groups, they start asking about how much I bench, squat, all of that bullshit, it's always the same fucking questions, and they always end with, "well, I think that you use same extra stuff to grow", then I'm like, if you don't feel like my training and diet are the reason for my growth, then why the fuck did you ask about it, then why the fuck am I telling you all of this shit for?!

Little Wing · 05-06-2007, 02:34 PM

when you come in my apt the 1st room you see is my lr which is not a lr but a gym. i have a heavy bag, speed bag, weight bench, lat machine, stair stepper, crunch bench..... i hate when people say "i'll have to come work out with you"

Pylon · 05-06-2007, 03:22 PM

My least favorite is "Are you going to work out today?" If I say yes, I get "Oh, we were going to invite you to lunch." If I say no, I get "Oh, taking some time off, huh?" like I'm a quitter (even though they wouldn't even know where the gym is).

I hate my co-workers.

TopAdams314 · 05-06-2007, 08:47 PM

I always get asked how tall I am...I'm 6'4 with a half to go along with it. And I get asked what that weird thing on my ear is, which is a cochlear implant. I just want to throw a 45-pound plate at them when they ask nosy questions when I just want them to feck off.

Yanick · 05-06-2007, 09:10 PM

Are you on steroids? Even though I"m not even remotely big enough to be asked that (i'm the lightest i've been in years, 5'9-10'' 205lbs maybe around 13%). I laugh and take it as a compliment, but its annoying.

When are you gonna train me/work out a diet for me? Whenever i actually take time out to do either of these, i'll follow through a week or two down the line and inevitably get the same response "oh it wasn't working out, i'm gonna do [insert shitty fad diet/aerobics class]" This is why i rarely talk about lifting/dieting around regular folk, they just don't understand.

So i have to eat [insert w/e clean food i'm eating in front of them @ the moment] to lose weight? Then i tell them its not that simple, cals in vs out, consistency, insulin, G Index, lifestyle change etc. Which leads to a half hour seminar on clean eating, only to find out they will never put that to good use..."Well my friend lost 20lbs on Atkins, i think i'll just do that"

When do you find the time? Or the classic comment, "I don't have time for the gym/diet." YEAH BECAUSE I SIT HOME ALL DAY, EAT, SLEEP AND TRAIN. I MAKE TIME TO TRAIN MOTHERFUCKER! I have literally yelled at people for those comments. Its insulting to me as i wake up at 4am and pay a 10 dollar daily fee to the 24hour gym occasionally to get in a morning workout if i know i'll be jam packed with stuff to do and won't get it in at any other time. I lift if i'm tired or lazy, i lift if my training partner is bitching out on me, i lift when its raining or snowing, on holidays or through a hangover. Don't fuckin tell me my life is any easier than yours if i make time for myself to workout.

Dumby · 05-06-2007, 09:14 PM

How tall are you? 6'4.
How much do you bench? More then you.
Are you on drugs? ...

DOMS · 05-06-2007, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yanick

When do you find the time? Or the classic comment, "I don't have time for the gym/diet." YEAH BECAUSE I SIT HOME ALL DAY, EAT, SLEEP AND TRAIN. I MAKE TIME TO TRAIN MOTHERFUCKER! I have literally yelled at people for those comments. Its insulting to me as i wake up at 4am and pay a 10 dollar daily fee to the 24hour gym occasionally to get in a morning workout if i know i'll be jam packed with stuff to do and won't get it in at any other time. I lift if i'm tired or lazy, i lift if my training partner is bitching out on me, i lift when its raining or snowing, on holidays or through a hangover. Don't fuckin tell me my life is any easier than yours if i make time for myself to workout.

This one bugs the shit out me.

Some asshat will go on and one about how isn't as easy for them to get into shape as it is for me. I'm say, "Easy?", usually in a loud voice. I ask them what they ate for lunch, with the standard reply of some fast food junk. I tell them I ate a home-made grilled chicken salad. Diet is my weakest link in weight training, but I still put in a lot of effort to eat clean. It's psychologically brutal for me.

I ask them what's the most strenuous physical thing they've in the past 24 hours. I get some half-assed reply like "I went for a walk". And the person is usually some fat fuck who's idea of "a walk" is walking from the car to their home. I do fucking short, intense, workouts that make some people puke, but it's easy for me?!

I just want to stab those fuckers in the face!

Not that it really bothers me...

Blooming Lotus · 05-07-2007, 12:18 AM

lol

yeah. that one's fun. It reminds me of the " oh, I don't have good gentics like you do" comment. as opposed to " I can't be bothered finding a reason to work out and not stuff my face with craap every cpl of meals like you do so I choose to hate youu for it and kill myself with bad habits and lifestyle instead... and pretend anything else is abnormal "..

Usually Ii get things like.. "oh come on.. i saw you just break your back!!!" ... translation.. " how tf do you lift more and work harder than me when you're tiny and fml???.. is my job in jeopardy here?"..

i also get " god.. do you just not eat or something"?? .. but I dooo .. lots.. I'm just dying of a screwed liver and cant eat many complex carbs and have to live mostly on fruit and leavey stuffs and real easy bioavailable proteins

...bastards!.. I hAve a grown appetite and nourish it!

Ohh. and how fun is it when it comes from fat ppl!.. who spend theeir lives conditioning otherrs to be like that ! .. @). I haate that!

No really it hurts. there's no talking sense or even explaining to ppl like that sometimes. Usually i just try to not cross paths with them.. even iif I have to change my entire career and world to do it. WEirdos!.

**Gazhole** · 05-07-2007, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DOMS

This one bugs the shit out me.

Some asshat will go on and one about how isn't as easy for them to get into shape as it is for me. I'm say, "Easy?", usually in a loud voice. I ask them what they ate for lunch, with the standard reply of some fast food junk. I tell them I ate a home-made grilled chicken salad. Diet is my weakest link in weight training, but I still put in a lot of effort to eat clean. It's psychologically brutal for me.

I ask them what's the most strenuous physical thing they've in the past 24 hours. I get some half-assed reply like "I went for a walk". And the person is usually some fat fuck who's idea of "a walk" is walking from the car to their home. I do fucking short, intense, workouts that make some people puke, but it's easy for me?!

I just want to stab those fuckers in the face!

Not that it really bothers me...

Damn, that touched a nerve with me too.

Not really a question, but the comment ive gotten along the lines of the "its not easy for me..." is the totally enraging:

"Wow, you're so lucky to look like that."

WHAT THE FUCK!!?!?!? MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU THINK I WAS BORN LIKE THIS?!?!?!

Jesus. And this from some people who've known me since BEFORE i started lifting. As if my gains in the last 3 years have been totally genetic. Just because im not with them every hour of everyday they cant see the time, effort, and pain that goes into doing this.

They dont see all the eating, they dont see the hour 3x a week intense training, they dont see the almost endless reading and experimenting with program design that goes into it.

And the funniest thing is - im nowhere near the biggest, strongest, most conditioned, or knowledgable person on here.

If they think im LUCKY, theyd be worshipping some of you guys as the FUCKING MESSIAH.

BoneCrusher · 05-07-2007, 07:32 AM

Once or twice a year at the gym some asshat I don't know asks "Can you help me get some steroids ... you use them would you hook me up?" or some derivative there of. I've not used gear yet, but of course the only way a guy built like me can get decent power is with gear

Plateau_Max · 05-07-2007, 07:42 AM

It's annoying but really when you think about it, this just shows how lost they are. I can always tell before I get into a long helpful explanation whether or not they're going to let it fly right out the other ear. Part of sitting there and talking out a clean diet, cardio, and lifting plan with someone helps me to reinforce my own motivation on a subconscious level.

One that I get from a lot of people is "If I have to run like you to look like you then I'm doomed" First of all, you can run like me if you train like me, second, I'd have to give up running as much as I do if I want to lose more body fat because I need to maintain around 10-14% to be viable when running for 2 or more hours. If you see the plans I make for my trainees, they don't look anything like my own. Well except one guy but he runs with me.

I do what I do because I like running. I like my medals, my awards, the pile of free T-shirts, certificates, and other accolades I've racked up just for competing and nothing else. Distance running gives me a lot of time to think, work things out, relieve the stress of the day. HIIT is amazing because when you push yourself to absolute 100% and completely destroy yourself (so to speak) the high you get afterwards is awesome.

Haha one time I was running a 6k put on by the air force, then afterwards (I got 2nd place) a couple guys asked me what I was doing afterward and I told them I needed to get to the gym. They couldn't believe I was going to the gym after a 6k but I told them "hey I'm not gonna change my whole routine just 'cause they decided to have this 6k on a wednesday" (which was push day back then).

Witmaster · 05-07-2007, 09:03 AM

I used to wear my Army PT uniform to the gym. Everyone would ask me if I was "in the military".

Once you say yes they all want to thank you for your service and get into deep question/answer sessions about the War.

Now that I wear Civillian gym clothes I don't get interrupted nearly as much.

DOMS · 05-07-2007, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Witmaster

Once you say yes they all want to thank you for your service and get into deep question/answer sessions about the War.

The timing was bad, but at least the respect was there.

Plateau_Max · 05-07-2007, 09:14 AM

I guess working out in an Air Force gym cancels that question out

forum9351 · 05-07-2007, 09:31 AM

I hate the: "yo dude, what are you taking"? questions

fufu · 05-07-2007, 09:44 AM

You work out everyday, right?

You must workout for atleast a couple hours, I don't have time for that.

Once some skinny little motherfucker(must have been 5' 8" 110-120 lbs) told me that there is no way you can get a good workout in 30 minutes. He was trying to tell me how to train.

Hmm, come back to me when you can squat more than I can overhead press.
....

Plateau_Max · 05-07-2007, 09:44 AM

Yeah, fat guys who can't lift for crap asking me what supplements I take just gives me that "you are so far from the taking supplements stage it's not even funny" look.

DOMS · 05-07-2007, 09:51 AM

It's like I've said before:

Quote:

Originally Posted by JordanMang

When people who don't know anything about working out don't take your advice just because you're fat.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DOMS

I wouldn't take sex advice from a virgin.

Plateau_Max · 05-07-2007, 09:57 AM

I did a comedy routine that involved tribulations at the gym. Part of it was about the guys who'll read the tips and tricks section of one issue of a bodybuilding magazine and hang out in the gym acting like an expert.

"this guy will hover around the bench press and any time someone comes near it he'll run over and try to spray his fad knowledge filth all over you. It's like 'hey buddy, if I wanted to take advice from someone it wouldn't be the fat guy wearing a faded budweiser shirt with the orb of sweat around his taint' "

KelJu · 05-07-2007, 10:04 AM

People don't bother me too much. When I have my Ipod on, I ignore everyone, even if I see them talking right to me. While I am in the changing room, I do often get a lot of how did I get so think or what does my training look like. I tell most people to visit ironmagazine if they really are interested. I doubt any of them ever came here to check up on my advice.

danzik17 · 05-07-2007, 01:30 PM

Don't really get comments since I'm not exactly in good shape (yet

) but it fucking pisses me off when I see people in the gym giving advice who have no business doing it.

Like this one black dude who likes to bench more than he should. He loads up the bar, proceeds to quickly drop and bounce it off his chest, then gets spotted back up. Repeat x5. Then he comes over and tries to give advice while I'm doing pullups with a very slow and controlled eccentric saying that I shouldn't go so slow and that I could do more if I didn't. Just sort of laughed at him and kept going.

05-05-2007, 04:45 PM	#1
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05-05-2007, 04:48 PM	#2
NordicNacho Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,415 Photos: 18	Im 6'7' Do you know how many times people have asked me If i play basketball? How tall are you?
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05-06-2007, 03:22 PM	#6
Pylon Squishy Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Missing...presumed having a good time Posts: 6,386 Photos: 3	My least favorite is "Are you going to work out today?" If I say yes, I get "Oh, we were going to invite you to lunch." If I say no, I get "Oh, taking some time off, huh?" like I'm a quitter (even though they wouldn't even know where the gym is). I hate my co-workers.
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05-06-2007, 09:10 PM	#8
Yanick Amor Fati Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,798	Are you on steroids? Even though I"m not even remotely big enough to be asked that (i'm the lightest i've been in years, 5'9-10'' 205lbs maybe around 13%). I laugh and take it as a compliment, but its annoying. When are you gonna train me/work out a diet for me? Whenever i actually take time out to do either of these, i'll follow through a week or two down the line and inevitably get the same response "oh it wasn't working out, i'm gonna do [insert shitty fad diet/aerobics class]" This is why i rarely talk about lifting/dieting around regular folk, they just don't understand. So i have to eat [insert w/e clean food i'm eating in front of them @ the moment] to lose weight? Then i tell them its not that simple, cals in vs out, consistency, insulin, G Index, lifestyle change etc. Which leads to a half hour seminar on clean eating, only to find out they will never put that to good use..."Well my friend lost 20lbs on Atkins, i think i'll just do that" When do you find the time? Or the classic comment, "I don't have time for the gym/diet." YEAH BECAUSE I SIT HOME ALL DAY, EAT, SLEEP AND TRAIN. I MAKE TIME TO TRAIN MOTHERFUCKER! I have literally yelled at people for those comments. Its insulting to me as i wake up at 4am and pay a 10 dollar daily fee to the 24hour gym occasionally to get in a morning workout if i know i'll be jam packed with stuff to do and won't get it in at any other time. I lift if i'm tired or lazy, i lift if my training partner is bitching out on me, i lift when its raining or snowing, on holidays or through a hangover. Don't fuckin tell me my life is any easier than yours if i make time for myself to workout.
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05-06-2007, 09:14 PM	#9
Dumby Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 113	How tall are you? 6'4. How much do you bench? More then you. Are you on drugs? ...
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05-06-2007, 02:34 PM	#5
Little Wing SEMPER~FIDELIS Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 21,044 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 191	when you come in my apt the 1st room you see is my lr which is not a lr but a gym. i have a heavy bag, speed bag, weight bench, lat machine, stair stepper, crunch bench..... i hate when people say "i'll have to come work out with you"

05-06-2007, 08:47 PM	#7
TopAdams314 ROFLCopter Trainee Pilot Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 88	I always get asked how tall I am...I'm 6'4 with a half to go along with it. And I get asked what that weird thing on my ear is, which is a cochlear implant. I just want to throw a 45-pound plate at them when they ask nosy questions when I just want them to feck off.

05-07-2007, 12:18 AM	#11
Blooming Lotus Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 896	lol yeah. that one's fun. It reminds me of the " oh, I don't have good gentics like you do" comment. as opposed to " I can't be bothered finding a reason to work out and not stuff my face with craap every cpl of meals like you do so I choose to hate youu for it and kill myself with bad habits and lifestyle instead... and pretend anything else is abnormal ".. Usually Ii get things like.. "oh come on.. i saw you just break your back!!!" ... translation.. " how tf do you lift more and work harder than me when you're tiny and fml???.. is my job in jeopardy here?".. i also get " god.. do you just not eat or something"?? .. but I dooo .. lots.. I'm just dying of a screwed liver and cant eat many complex carbs and have to live mostly on fruit and leavey stuffs and real easy bioavailable proteins ...bastards!.. I hAve a grown appetite and nourish it! Ohh. and how fun is it when it comes from fat ppl!.. who spend theeir lives conditioning otherrs to be like that ! .. @). I haate that! No really it hurts. there's no talking sense or even explaining to ppl like that sometimes. Usually i just try to not cross paths with them.. even iif I have to change my entire career and world to do it. WEirdos!.
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05-07-2007, 07:32 AM	#13
BoneCrusher Lift or Die Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Austin Texas Posts: 8,492	Once or twice a year at the gym some asshat I don't know asks "Can you help me get some steroids ... you use them would you hook me up?" or some derivative there of. I've not used gear yet, but of course the only way a guy built like me can get decent power is with gear

05-07-2007, 07:42 AM	#14
Plateau_Max I enjoy SkyDiving Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 865	It's annoying but really when you think about it, this just shows how lost they are. I can always tell before I get into a long helpful explanation whether or not they're going to let it fly right out the other ear. Part of sitting there and talking out a clean diet, cardio, and lifting plan with someone helps me to reinforce my own motivation on a subconscious level. One that I get from a lot of people is "If I have to run like you to look like you then I'm doomed" First of all, you can run like me if you train like me, second, I'd have to give up running as much as I do if I want to lose more body fat because I need to maintain around 10-14% to be viable when running for 2 or more hours. If you see the plans I make for my trainees, they don't look anything like my own. Well except one guy but he runs with me. I do what I do because I like running. I like my medals, my awards, the pile of free T-shirts, certificates, and other accolades I've racked up just for competing and nothing else. Distance running gives me a lot of time to think, work things out, relieve the stress of the day. HIIT is amazing because when you push yourself to absolute 100% and completely destroy yourself (so to speak) the high you get afterwards is awesome. Haha one time I was running a 6k put on by the air force, then afterwards (I got 2nd place) a couple guys asked me what I was doing afterward and I told them I needed to get to the gym. They couldn't believe I was going to the gym after a 6k but I told them "hey I'm not gonna change my whole routine just 'cause they decided to have this 6k on a wednesday" (which was push day back then).
	"Years of hard work for only a single moment of perfection is a worthy trade." - Myself

05-07-2007, 09:03 AM	#15
Witmaster Esprit de Corps Elite Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,848 Photos: 6	I used to wear my Army PT uniform to the gym. Everyone would ask me if I was "in the military". Once you say yes they all want to thank you for your service and get into deep question/answer sessions about the War. Now that I wear Civillian gym clothes I don't get interrupted nearly as much.
	NEVER write a check with your mouth that you can't cash with your ASS!! I can run faster mad than you can scared "All right brain... I don't like you and you don't like me. So let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer" ~ Homer Simpson

05-07-2007, 09:14 AM	#17
Plateau_Max I enjoy SkyDiving Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 865	I guess working out in an Air Force gym cancels that question out
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05-07-2007, 09:31 AM	#18
forum9351 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 295	I hate the: "yo dude, what are you taking"? questions
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05-07-2007, 09:44 AM	#19
fufu fiendish thingy Elite Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 15,966 Photos: 4	You work out everyday, right? You must workout for atleast a couple hours, I don't have time for that. Once some skinny little motherfucker(must have been 5' 8" 110-120 lbs) told me that there is no way you can get a good workout in 30 minutes. He was trying to tell me how to train. Hmm, come back to me when you can squat more than I can overhead press. ....
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05-07-2007, 09:57 AM	#22
Plateau_Max I enjoy SkyDiving Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 865	I did a comedy routine that involved tribulations at the gym. Part of it was about the guys who'll read the tips and tricks section of one issue of a bodybuilding magazine and hang out in the gym acting like an expert. "this guy will hover around the bench press and any time someone comes near it he'll run over and try to spray his fad knowledge filth all over you. It's like 'hey buddy, if I wanted to take advice from someone it wouldn't be the fat guy wearing a faded budweiser shirt with the orb of sweat around his taint' "
	"Years of hard work for only a single moment of perfection is a worthy trade." - Myself

05-07-2007, 01:30 PM	#24
danzik17 Gender: MALE Elite Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,897 Blog Entries: 5	Don't really get comments since I'm not exactly in good shape (yet ) but it fucking pisses me off when I see people in the gym giving advice who have no business doing it. Like this one black dude who likes to bench more than he should. He loads up the bar, proceeds to quickly drop and bounce it off his chest, then gets spotted back up. Repeat x5. Then he comes over and tries to give advice while I'm doing pullups with a very slow and controlled eccentric saying that I shouldn't go so slow and that I could do more if I didn't. Just sort of laughed at him and kept going.