For funny stories, I got this one. I drink a gallon of water in like an hour at work, since I train in the morning and get thirsty. I usually do this by myself at my work station, but had a meeting I had to go to 1 day. Brought my gallon jug (so you already know I’m a meathead) and just drank it through out the whole time. The person leading the meeting gets increasingly more distressed watching this, asking me if I need a bathroom break like every 10 minutes. Finally, after I finish the gallon they ask me again and I tell them that I’ll go just to get them to stop asking me.
I forgot that what I was doing wasn’t normal for a second there, haha.
I get the usual, “do you just eat protein?” , “Those protein drinks are making you an angry person” “are yoi on creatine? It’s good shit right?” .
I’m a powerlifter, but always get mistaken for a bodybuilder, but if I tell people I powerlift, they have no idea what that is.
Some nurse at work asked if i did CrossFit, I said I just eat McDonald’s and sit on the couch all day. She walked away. I’m an asshole :).
I’m 205, 5 foot 8 , so I always catch slack or some bro asking me “do you even lift?” Whenever I go to places that aren’t the gym. Tis the life we live.
I’m eating my pre-workout meal, which is 3/4 cup cooked jasmine rice, and 4 oz chicken (roughly). I work at a software development firm, so one of the pale, sickly-looking developers walks by my desk, sees I’m eating (again), and says, verbatim:
Developer: “How do you eat that everyday? I mean, isn’t rice nothing but calories?” pause (i’m luckily chewing, so I don’t respond right away)
Developer: “Like, rice has absolutely no nutrients in it, right?” I keep chewing (Luckily, another co-worker takes over the conversation, allowing me to remain silent, and not say anything rude)
I do something similar, except with a gallon of milk. I sat down in a side room for a minute, and one of the company’s owners walks by.
He pokes his head in, says “hey look, it’s the milkman. Do you really drink one of those a day?”
After my affirmative reaponse, he replies, “well, it’s probably better than smoking.” I didn’t really know how to respond.
So I’m a little kid and I see a couple security guys in person. XL guys with XS shirts on at a concert. I didn’t think real people looked like that, just in movies. So naturally I’m like 6yo doing all the pushups and situps I can do for a week. When my grandpa finds out (ungodly strong human btw farmer and riverboat captian) he says: “you don’t want to look like that, those muscle-bound guys get so big they cramp up and can’t move, they aren’t useful for anything.”
Fast forward to adulthood my friend and I borrow my dad’s truck to pick up a tire for flipping. We get the damn thing loaded and on the way home we stop at a beer distributor to buy an empty keg. I go up to the manager and ask if I can purchase an empty, damaged keg at a discount. He asks “why” and I reply “for lifting” he goes “okay follow me.”
So he gets it, but the hourly guy working for him goes “wait so you want to lift a keg… why?” “Don’t they have gyms for this sort of shit?” He proceeds to follow us and keeps asking various versions of “why?” no joke at least 5 more times. He seemed legit mystified that I would pay $25 for an empty keg. This starts to annoy the manager so he makes the hourly guy carry the empty keg to the truck, where there’s a giant tire waiting in the bed. He goes
“what’s the tire for?”
“Flipping”
“For excercise? Damn, how strong do you guys want to get?”
My friend responds “all the way strong” and we leave.
Easy answer for me. I’m a cop. I want to look like the type of person that you don’t want to fuck with. I’m extremely nice to people and stay pretty calm most of the time. Those three things have given me 6 years of law enforcement without a single fight.
And in spite of my best efforts I’m not very muscular. 230lbs spread over a 6’5" frame. I’d describe me as athletic.
I carry a 6 Pack Fitness Innovator 500 for a lunch box and you should see the looks I get from co-workers. “Jeez, what do you have in that thing!?”
Chicken, potatoes, beans & rice, raw vegetables, maybe even a cheeseburger. Seems simple to me. We work 10 hours shifts so I need about three meals. Cheaper and better than the drive-thru.
I rode with another guy who trains seriously and at the end of the day someone asked, “What’d you guys talk about all day–deadlifts?”
I said “What the fuck do you care what we talked about?” End of conversation. The funny part is that he has 10+ years of seniority on me and I’m not supposed to talk like that to him.
Apparently it looks like a tool box LOL! I love it. The 300 is just a smaller version. I started with that. Great investment if you take your meals with you.
If you’re a REAL bodybuilder, they always taste like a milkshake because you haven’t had a milkshake in SO LONG that you don’t remember what they actually taste like.
@Lonnie123, this just proves you’re not hardcore enough!
