Landon, Bass guy, that is a trip I have lifted in one of the centers you guys spoke of, man it was full of pansy’s. There were lots of women though, I was out in Iowa visiting my brother in Boone, and wanted a change of scenery so I went to go check out the campus. I was supposed to go to Byer Hall, but instead ended up at a different complex, I remember there were requet ball courts downstairs, and the weight room was upstairs. I would like to note that there were some hot women out there though and the part scene in Aimes is not half bad.
LMAO
To ArcaneCocaine: Thanks for the edumacation man! So that’s vAin and not vEin! Oops! Just want to say, “J-bird started it!” 
TO ScrubMD2B: “Don’t hate me because I’m a vein” LOL Soo funny! The imagery was great!
Picturing your gf’s 16 bro carrying a 7lb tub in the gym is also halarious!
Thanks for the laughs!
No wonder I was getting wierd looks… people thought I looked like a “vEin”… 
I was eating lunch with a friend of mine just a couple of days ago and a guy overheard us talking about this big and muscular a guy we saw. He thought we were bad-mouthing him and decided to chime in with, ?t’s probably from all that protein stuff… really bad for you…" and something about giving you a heart attack if you eat too much protein. Thank God my lunch break was almost over. I reacted well, though, and told him he was absolutely right as I watched him dig into his nasty cup-o-noodles lunch. I stopped preaching long ago… let them all burn in E-hell.
wait wait wait, you said SMS, ILS, what about ISS (imaginary strength syndrome)???
You know the guy that goes to squat rack loads up 2-3 more 45 per side than he can handle, tightens up his belt and proceeds to do (I guess) lock-outs, 1/16ths, or what ever you want to call them…and no he’s not doing partial isometrics!
Or my favorite…I saw this one yesterday. I look over and see a guy incline benching some decent weight for reps. I say hey, “not bad.” But subequently have to run to the bathroom from laughing so hard when I see that the only part of his body on the bench was head and neck, and upper traps I shit you not!! Most people raise their ass, his entire back, ass, and legs were all off the bench. Amazing how people lie to themselves. It was the single most display of stupidity I’ve seen in the gym I almost called him on it.
OK… I’m done ranting.
Then the other day I was maxing out, and had this guy spot me. Big mistake. “So you try to see how much you can lift one time?” “Yup, its called maxing out.” “Cool, I have to try that some time”
Or what about the guy that wants to spot you and you have to say over and over again “Look, I came to lift weights, not me watch you lift them for me.” I swear one day I had to tell this guy literally “Don’t touch the bar unless it drops on my chest.”
Ok…now I’m really done…I promise.
janderstein,
Jeez, I can so relate with you about finding a woman who understands our lifestyle. You are a lucky bastard to have found one. As much as I loved my ex to death (still do)…she was never really “into” my lifestyle. I felt bad in a way, cause she would like to go out and drink or go to Friendly’s (which has NOTHING I would eat)…so I refused to go there most of the time. Now she is with a guy whom will go out and eat french fries and ice cream with her and will go out to the bars and drink. Stuff I would never do. Sometimes I regret not doing more of those kind of things with her. I guess it all comes down to compromise. Hopefully, I will find someone who understands. I would be so happy if I could find a girl who would go to the gym with me and workout and down a post-workout drink with me afterwards…haha.
The courts are not carpeted anymore at the rec. they just have the 50 yd turf football field downstairs.
The rec center’s weight room upstairs has some good scenery if you pay attention, but once you start heading over to the free wieght area, things begin to get ugly. All the frat kids staring you down with their blue crypt bandanas and their cut off sleeve abercrombie and fitch shirts. And whats the worst part is most of them tan more than the women.
Also, another good thing is about the upstairs rec center at ISU is that everyone thinks they know how to properly lift. You should SEE the number of people stopping by when I do good-morning squats, and most will comment with something like, “Hey bud, you should sit back more with your back more upright” And this is where I proceed to laugh. It’s VERY obvious what I’m doing too, but so many people think I’m trying to do this bent over squat thing. WTF. Oh well, everyone upstairs must be a ACE or something 
All I can say is, “Oh well, and fuck the dumb.”
I dont think they hate us,its just that they are jealous.
I think its rather like the example of a guy driving down the road in a brand new Ferarri.Some people will look at him and say “good luck to him he must of worked hard for it” whilst others will just say “wanker”.
Most people want all the rewards but without the hard work,and the great thing about training is,you get exactly back what you put in.
I didn’t read this entire thread so you’ll have to forgive me if I’m parroting. I don’t understand why so many people get upset if someone makes fun of what their healthy eating habits or hates on their physique. Don’t sweat the small shit. If you give someone the power to offend you, it’s your problem, not theirs. Those of you who don’t recognize this will find it difficult to live a fulfilling life.
Secondly, it’s important to care about your body. I certainly do and would never condemn someone for their dedication, but when your goals get in the way of having a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, it’s time to take a step back. Furthermore, perhaps I’m a freak, but I can achieve a commendable physique and still eat more than the occasional P+F+C, F+C, or fucking X+Y meal. However, I’m not one to tell you how to live your life. I don’t care how you live your life. I only make observations.
Tell the truth not only do you like the attention you get, you crave the attention you get. Hate me, despise me, but just keep on staring at me. Yeah baby I’m different than you, you want to be me, children love me, women want me, men fear me. All up until that REALLY REALLY big bastard comes in and I fade into the background, damm I hate him. (*That was a joke and not the real opinion of the poster, set phasers back to stun please)
Also how come everyone you talk to has a friend or coworker who says “This guy is huge, his (insert body part here) are twice as big as yours” My usual comeback is to tell them he failed the steroid test, if he is bigger than I am he is on steroids. Plain and simple he fails.
Tony, let me reiterate the fact that I had found a girl, but we no longer are together, and its all good bud, casue there are plenty more fish in the sea. I cant say that I ate as good as I do now when I was with here though, as I cared so much for her that I would break my strictness and the thing that made it fun was the fact that she too would be breaking also, so it wasnt like she did not appreciat our sessions at the steak buffet as much as I did. Good luck in finding that one.
Lets all hold hands. On a personal note, I found out the other day that this loser in the gym called me weird. Now this guy curls in the rack, talks on his cell phone, and wears gloves. And he called me weird. I thought it was hilarious and i cant wait to see him again. He messed up and told my sisters boyfriend. He didnt realize that was who he was. I cant wait to see him again. hehe. I love fuckin with people. People are so sensitive.
Goldberg… Keep us posted. I would love to see his reaction when he realizes that you know. I can see the retards jaw drop now. He’ll be the one who’s wierd, when you have to help him pick it up.
Kick his ass Goldberg !
G-Berg, I here you on that guy in the gym. Personally I get a lot of mean looks in the gym and am sure people talk about me, not that I am peranoid or anything, but I pay no attention to them as I am there to get a job done, and have no time to deal with others insecurity’s. Instead I use there dumb remarks and rude glairs as fuel to my fire, and train with an intensity that they could never dream of matching. g-berg, I have seen your pics, and you are a stout cat, I would hate to here of you going nutso on this turd in the gym, instead use his stupidity against hm and ignore him as people like him dont deserve our attention. On a side note you powerlift right? I have a good friend who has competed nationally, maybe you have heard of him, his name is Sean Gearnhardt, he has one several big meets. ring a bell?
GREAT TOPIC~!~
A couple years ago I was focused on my career and didn’t give much thought to fitness. I’d go to work, come home drink beer, eat burritos and study. I promptly gained about 15lbs right above my beltline. I started looking at fit people as the enemy!
I’m convinced I was jealous, my girl started checking out other guys with less abandon and yeah I got pissed at them as much as at her.
Rediculous I know! The problem wasn’t with them or her, it was with ME!
Now that I’ve turned that fat into muscle (figuratively speaking) I feel much better and notice others condeming me. I’ll be out with some buddies and they will stop at a fast food joint and I’ll walk over to the supermarket and get an apple and some cottage cheese or something. The abuse I take from their ignorance is unbelievable!
However I’ve also noticed people saying oh my god, you look so good, how come you don’t age or how do you stay in such good shape with a deskjob? I laugh and say “It’s for the same reason you bag on me” I watch and calculate what I eat, workout and generally listen to my body. For some reason it just doesn’t sink into their thick Lazy skulls.?!
F- EM!
Good success story bro, you have a good mind set my man and that is very admirable. I think that it is important not to get PO’d at people for being nieve sp? Just let them be that way, and do what you do best. Right on bro:)
Here is something more.
I sent this thread to my friend that works at a fitness club in Northern Indiana. (I won’t say the name I don’t want to get sued :-).
So she showed it to the trainers there.
She and they said we are all full of shit, that there are never insults directed at the fit or strong. That people only insult out of shape people, and you are all imagining it and are crazy. Apparently, my friend also went on and on about how these people have certifications, and somehow makes them qualified to say that.
It’s funny, when I was really fat, no one ever called me that (I was tall too so it helped hide it). But if someone told me they were insulted by a stranger or friend who called them fat, I would not say to them “That never happened to me so it can’t possibly have happened to you”.
Anyway, I guess that just proves the point you all are making.
I was also told “fit people have to hold themselves to a higher standard” I don’t know what the hell that means. I thought I was fit because I ALREADY held myself to a higher standard, that’s how I got back in shape…
Maybe out of shape people should start holding themselves to a higher standard, esp. when considering the latest reports on the $93 Billion that obesity related disease costs, half of which are paid by tax dollars of other people (and more than half once the baby boomers get on medicare).
What a great post CB!
I fucking hear you loud and clear.
As I said, one should be in peace with himself to achieve the state where he can appreciate other people, It is sure as hell not happening yet with your “friend”.
“A higher standard”
thats actualy funny haha.
They are jealous.
I just think it is funny when the girls at the office comment about how cute and little I am when they eat McDonalds for breakfast, second breakfast, 11sies, lunch, etc.
I am going to the lunchroom to make my shake/heat up my chicken and ask if anyone needs anything. I get handed 18 quarters. Everyone needs a coke. Right, well I am sorry that you don’t like your butt… stop looking at mine.
Props to you polar… I have just started seriously training, and isn’t it amazing what weight-lifting can do for us women to reduce the fat. I never knew… yes I was one of those crazies who thought if I lifted weights I would be ugly and big, and if I curled 3lbs for four hours straight I would be “toned”.
And the funny thing is the girls at work who DO work out make fun of me for lifting heavy and yet ask me for advice almost weekly on how to improve certain body parts. That would be because I am seeing results and they are not. Not that I don’t love my girls at work, they just crack me up… but I’m with that Bob Dylan quote, I don’t really need to argue with them, my body (changes in it) is argument enough.