[quote]Professor X wrote:
Sharp4850 wrote:
I hate comments like that. Especially the “you’re going to fail like I did” comments.
I love those.
“all of that muscle will turn to fat”
“I used to be big like that…but you’ll see as you get older you will lose it”
and
“Why do you want to be that big and strong?”
I really do think people who stand out physically just make normal people feel bad.[/quote]
Its because were fuckin better than them its a sore subject for me,My whole fuckin family is fat and they hit on my training/diet all the time saying ‘it aint good for you’ ;but stuffing shit down your face all day every day is???
I’m going to have bad dreams about the split machine now.
I’ve gotten the same thing. Several years ago the man I was dating had an over weight daughter. He once told her I was lucky because I could eat whatever I liked and still be slim. I tore him a new one. All he was doing was setting his daughter to not even try to be anything other than over weight. After all, why should she try you’re either naturally slim or you aren’t. Mind you, he didn’t know what an acronym was either. I had to cut him loose.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I’m going to have bad dreams about the split machine now.
I’ve gotten the same thing. Several years ago the man I was dating had an over weight daughter. He once told her I was lucky because I could eat whatever I liked and still be slim. I tore him a new one. All he was doing was setting his daughter to not even try to be anything other than over weight. After all, why should she try you’re either naturally slim or you aren’t. Mind you, he didn’t know what an acronym was either. I had to cut him loose.[/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
I’m going to have bad dreams about the split machine now.
I’ve gotten the same thing. Several years ago the man I was dating had an over weight daughter. He once told her I was lucky because I could eat whatever I liked and still be slim. I tore him a new one. All he was doing was setting his daughter to not even try to be anything other than over weight. After all, why should she try you’re either naturally slim or you aren’t. Mind you, he didn’t know what an acronym was either. I had to cut him loose.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Professor X wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
I’m going to have bad dreams about the split machine now.
I’ve gotten the same thing. Several years ago the man I was dating had an over weight daughter. He once told her I was lucky because I could eat whatever I liked and still be slim. I tore him a new one. All he was doing was setting his daughter to not even try to be anything other than over weight. After all, why should she try you’re either naturally slim or you aren’t. Mind you, he didn’t know what an acronym was either. I had to cut him loose.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
assuming your from America…
Because American’s are lazy .
shut the fuck up
I live down the street from you dude…
Be honest man, you are one of the few because you don’t sit on your ass all day getting fatter.
They typical American is a lazy pile. No escaping the truth, I was just pointing it out. Don’t get offened, you are not one of them.[/quote]
Dude, the typical PERSON is a lazy shit. America is far from lazy son, we work more hours and more days than any other industrial Western country. Americans are workaholics. I don’t like when anyone outside of the U.S. talks shit about the U.S.
Fucking foreigners act like somehow they live in some world where no one stops moving, no one stops working. fucking bullshit.
just because majority of americans are overweight doesn’t mean they still don’t work hard in general it just means they’re fucking overweight.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
Professor X wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
I’m going to have bad dreams about the split machine now.
I’ve gotten the same thing. Several years ago the man I was dating had an over weight daughter. He once told her I was lucky because I could eat whatever I liked and still be slim. I tore him a new one. All he was doing was setting his daughter to not even try to be anything other than over weight. After all, why should she try you’re either naturally slim or you aren’t. Mind you, he didn’t know what an acronym was either. I had to cut him loose.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Dude, the typical PERSON is a lazy shit. America is far from lazy son, we work more hours and more days than any other industrial Western country. Americans are workaholics. I don’t like when anyone outside of the U.S. talks shit about the U.S.
Fucking foreigners act like somehow they live in some world where no one stops moving, no one stops working. fucking bullshit.
just because majority of americans are overweight doesn’t mean they still don’t work hard in general it just means they’re fucking overweight. [/quote]
Fair enough… I see where you are coming from.
But again, I’m not foreign. I live down the street from you.
Dude, the typical PERSON is a lazy shit. America is far from lazy son, we work more hours and more days than any other industrial Western country. Americans are workaholics. I don’t like when anyone outside of the U.S. talks shit about the U.S.
Fucking foreigners act like somehow they live in some world where no one stops moving, no one stops working. fucking bullshit.
just because majority of americans are overweight doesn’t mean they still don’t work hard in general it just means they’re fucking overweight.
Fair enough… I see where you are coming from.
But again, I’m not foreign. I live down the street from you.
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High St? Judson St? Ashland?
i’ve never the gym in any of your videos
and btw when you pull you need to get your hips down and chest up.
lol, little further along 128… I’m not getting anymore public with my location…
And yes god I know the form sucked on my max pulls, but I don’t mind the ball busting.[/quote]
you can tell people what city you live in, sheesh.
i wasn’t busting your balls about the lift, i was serious. granted it was a max pull, but holy shit dude that was ugly. im just trying to give you some pointers since we’re neighbors and all.
Re. the topic of the original post: People can be intimidated when you show some ability/accomplishment in an area. As often, though, I think the sort of frustrating reactions you’re talking about stem from a mental shortcut that they’re taking.
If what you’ve managed to do, in lifting, athletics, art, math, music, science, finance, your personal life, whatever is due to some trick gene or innate talent, solely, then they don’t have to worry about it. Why sweat what’s not in the cards for you, anyway? If, on the other hand, what you’ve done is something they themselves could do, you’ve suddenly made things inconvenient for them.
If they are confronted with the possibility of their ability in an area, then they have to face that they are choosing to exercise it or to let it lie fallow. You might remind them of something, but ultimately the thing they are scared of is their own potential.
I’m not saying that everyone has the same potential in every area, or that people aren’t sometimes just plain scared of other people. I don’t think, for that matter, that all fat people are mentally weak or that all muscular guys are paragons of mental fortitude. I do believe that the circumstances you’re born into exert a powerful influence over your life.
But I think that, generally, people want to classify as many things as possible as being beyond their control. What’s in your control, you have to answer for – to yourself, if no one else – and that is a hard pill to swallow.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Sharp4850 wrote:
I hate comments like that. Especially the “you’re going to fail like I did” comments.
I love those.
“all of that muscle will turn to fat”
“I used to be big like that…but you’ll see as you get older you will lose it”
and
“Why do you want to be that big and strong?”
I really do think people who stand out physically just make normal people feel bad.[/quote]
Someone needs to make a shirt that says “I look like this to make normal people feel bad”
Back to topic, most folks are ignorant and to lazy to educate themselves, this was me 2 years ago.
First Post - just joined up this week after spectating for months…
This topic really gets me worked up because it just happened to me. 6 months ago I was approaching 210 lbs. of fat laziness. After staring at myself in the mirror and being disgusted with myself for the 1000th time, I decided to take my health and fitness goals seriously.
I started with Rippetoe’s Starting Strength book and cleaned up my diet. To date I’ve lost 15 lbs. of fat and have increased my max lifts considerably (still pretty lame by many of the standards set here, but I’ll get there). The other day I was eating lunch with some collegues - Steak and Veggies with a chaser of Whole Milk - and a coworker says that I’m really lucky that I have good genetics.
He complained that nothing he does has ever worked, while eating a bag of Doritos and drinking Diet Mountain Dew. I told him that it wasn’t easy, but I’ve changed my diet and starting lifting heavy, but he insisted that it was luck. Everyone else at the table agreed with him.
That or you get “Oh he’s just on juice” comment, another belittling injustice done to those who pour their entirety into what they do at the gym. Why Is it always something WE are doing that is wrong to the chubby little penguin, waddling his way around the gym, making almost NO effort to actually lift something. Is it because I’m DB flying what you BB curl? =(
