I confess that I’ve been drinking 2 diet ginger ales a day and that it takes an ungodly amount of willpower not to drink more.
I know there’s nothing wrong with diet soda. The issue is that I’ll have to go “cold Turkey” in 10 days and I’m not sure if I’m ready for that
I’ve known it for a while, since you’ve mentioned it before, but I respect that you lived (and trained, haha) in N.D. I take great pride in living through Dakota winters.
Hell yeah dude! The Dakotas breed hearty folks. Everyone needs to endure a few of their winters to put things in perspective.
My local football team just lost a game up in North Dakota.
Those dudes played football inside.
I confess that hearing all this talk about snow and frozen things makes me glad I made the call to move to Australia 16 years ago. Other than for work where it is required, I haven’t worn long pants or a coat for 16 years.
Your not an Aussie native? I’ve been bamboozled this entire time?!
I hate the cold and although it might “build toughness” or “boost immunity” or “build brown fat” to train in it, I refuse to do so
I much prefer bundling up to sweating the second I step outside.
I’ve never lived in a place that got more than 2 in of snow. My school is in pgh, but the one winter I was there was unusually warm and I missed the coldest parts bc I was in Shanghai for winter break, then FL for the following year bc covid.
Training outside is only fun when it’s like 50-60 F
Otherwise it sucks.
Coldest weather I ever trained in was 19 degrees (sunny) and 22 degrees while it was raining hard and windy (was deadlifting with my brother that day).
It does make you mentally stronger though.
agreed, but that’s the point of my confession.
I don’t care if not being willing to train in the cold makes me a wimp. I’m not doing it
note: I did walk nearly 2km in the middle of a typhoon to go to the gym and got stuck on my way home bc large branches were being blown off trees
…training is fun?
Not all the time, it depends on how I feel that day. Training can be mentally stimulating for me if it’s a challenge. There’s also those days where it feels like a chore because you got other stuff going on.
I confess you people confuse me.
I’m with Punisher on this. How many people on here are actually training vs. working out?
Root word of working out is work. I lament work right now. I only am doing this because being fat and weak sucks more than work. Just like being poor and homeless (from experience) is worse than trading time for money.
No mate born in England.
In the rain or in the snow, I generate the joules.
I think it’s safe to say that a lot of the regulars here actually train instead of just work out?
There are two doofuses in the gym who are
I confess that I wish I could bitch slap both of them
fixed it for you
I too saw an influx of moronic behavior at my gym (Jan 1st induced) and had to skip quad extensions because a Peter Pan-esque character spend at least 20 minutes doing his 2 sets 
I posted a while back on here that I dutifully attempt to dishearten these types of people so this type of situation no longer occurs. I got a lot of kickback for it at the time, but I imagine that would not be the case today given the current climate of resolutioner-laden gyms