[quote]science wrote:
“Damn your are too big you really look ugly its way too much,paint yourself green and you look like HULK”-you then cross the street,2 children pass by and they begin to cry…then you are really JACKED.[/quote]
A day in the life of the Prof…
I don’t consider myself “big” at 5-10 and 220#, 9-10%BF (and dropping).
Dudes: “What are you on?”
Ladies: “Those veins are kinda gross”
Oh well, what can you do.
It’s been my experience that some girls will say something like “You look great now. Don’t get too big”
…and then the next year when I’m bigger, they say “You look great now. Don’t get too big”
On the other hand, I really don’t care what most of these broads (or anyone else) thinks.
COntrary to popular belief, many of the huge guys I know aren’t out there to impress you (the generic “you”).
Also I’m not huge.
[quote]Stuey wrote:
I once got asked if I was on steroids, which was hysterical because I weighed about 180@5’9" at the time. I’m around 205 now but haven’t had the steroid comment since I was 180.
I regularly get asked if I play rugby, or people assume that I do, it seems that the only reson for anyone being bigger than average in this country (England) is if they play rugby…
The other week some girl in a bar spent all night going on and on about my shoulders, I’ve got a gf so wasn’t interested but it was funny because my mate thinks he is the dogs danglies and was trying to pull her.
I find at the moment that I am big enough for people to notice but not so big that they automatically assume I am a meathead.[/quote]
I rarely ever post anymore outside our thread but I about fell out of my chair when I read -“my mate thinks he is the dogs danglies” I love it!! I’m going to use that one.
And to the OP. yeah, yeah I’m big people think I’m some monster that will eat their children…what else is new.
meat
I started college at 138 pounds, having worked on a farm all my life and never lifted a barbell. My senior year I weighed about 165 with little noticable difference. This past year I started training like a powerlifter and my muscle mass shot up.
I now weigh 200 with most of it in my back, legs and shoulders. My mom and my grandma both think its great, they always talk about how much better i look now as opposed to in high school. My dad always jokes that he’ll lift with me when i get to his level (he’s still quite a bit bigger than me).
I think the best reaction i received was from an old high school friend. we had dinner with two other friends and the first thing he said to me was, “man you look great”. later on he said that i was “looking pretty big”. that made my day.
[quote]Mowgli wrote:
It’s been my experience that some girls will say something like “You look great now. Don’t get too big”
…and then the next year when I’m bigger, they say “You look great now. Don’t get too big”
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I have heard this too. The gil who says that- wants to fuck you. Really
Hehe I have funny story.
One night I was out with my friends and was talking to this girl and she was like: “Dude, your arms are too big and your head is too small for your body and those shoulders are too wide. You should stop lifting for some time and than begin again.”
Than after few beers when I met her in other club I kinda grabbed her and played with her a little.
Next weekend she said: “You remember what I said last weekend about you being big? Forget it! When u grabbed me last weekend it actually felt like a man grabbing me. I like it.”
Go figure ><
[quote]john w wrote:
I started college at 138 pounds, having worked on a farm all my life and never lifted a barbell. My senior year I weighed about 165 with little noticable difference. This past year I started training like a powerlifter and my muscle mass shot up.
I now weigh 200 with most of it in my back, legs and shoulders. My mom and my grandma both think its great, they always talk about how much better i look now as opposed to in high school. My dad always jokes that he’ll lift with me when i get to his level (he’s still quite a bit bigger than me).
I think the best reaction i received was from an old high school friend. we had dinner with two other friends and the first thing he said to me was, “man you look great”. later on he said that i was “looking pretty big”. that made my day.[/quote]
BrokeBack Mountain Moment?
J/K
In high school i was 185-195 at 5’10". after I graduated I started getting big up to 220 naturally. people would always ask me to lift heavy shit for them. or have there back if they were in a fight. very annoying.
my whole family said I was too big. my little nephews were afraid of me.now when I go out all i here is “big guy” or “muscles”. I actually dont mind the attention. funny thing is I dont see myself as big.
I had a guy hit on me in the steamroom once. I was reading the paper butt-ass naked and he asked if I were gay and if I’d like to go for a drink. I declined and left.
Four yrs ago I was ill an weighed 113lbs. Friends that have known me that long; say “WOW! you must feel great now” an compliment me how good I look an must feel now compared to then.An I tell them yes, I feel great an if someone ; close friend asks me about training I’ll help.I weigh roughly 205-210lbs now @ 5’4"
I don’t work out in a gym but rather @ home so I don’t get asked much from strangers about training/diet etc. etc.
But given the chance I would help out a fellow lifter if sincere.
I have however been asked what sort of juice I use an if I can give soemone the hook-up…which I shrug off an tell’m all I use is my knowledge of what I have learned over the last 10 yrs of lifting. Not that I dissaprove of steroids but rather i’ve never used them so I can’t testify to their use and give soemone the hook-up b/c I don’t know where to get’m; which is most undoubtedly followed by “YOU JUST DON’T WANT COMPETITION” which i find funny cause as I tell’m “I don’t compete; so what competition is there.”
I do know guys that use an sell; but rather than send them lil pain in the ass guys like that I just don’t cause personally if I did I wouldn’t want ignorant ppl that think it’s all about the juice you use, bothering me. I know it still takes training & proper nutrition.
As for the ladies, it depends where/how I meet them. I usually wear loose fitting clothes so my body doesn’t come into question, rather than I’m a big fellow…which is almost hysterically funny to a few close ladies that are friens w/ me.
Some I recently re-aquainted myself w/ through myspace which i have not seen sicne I was a teen an back then I was known throughout all my friends as Byron;(thats me) as the skinny sickly friend that always had health problems. Some are impressed while others are a big more than shocked as to the transformation.
Now as to the most important ppl in my life,my family. My parents worry cause @ times my weight does effect my transplanted lungs. Occasionally I will have a slight drop in my PFT’s (pulmonary function test)…which just means I need to work @ my cardio a lil harder.
My docs have gotten on my case about being 60+lbs heavier for someone in my condition. Ideally I am not supposed to be over 147lbs. for my height an bone structure; but after so many yrs. of being ill & frail I enjoy this weight. My niece & nephew remember when I was too ill an couldn’t play w/ them…now I am their big strong uncle that can do almost anything for them.
My two favorites were fairly similar. I played in a rock band around the time I had lost some fat, and on cold outdoor gigs I’d sometimes wear a shiny, silver long sleeved Under Armor shirt. At one of those gigs some girl commented that I “looked like a superhero.”
Just the other day I was having lunch at a donut shop (cheat meal, of course), and I was wearing a fairly small, bright green t-shirt. A kind of spaced-out old guy came up to me on my way back to my car and told me that I looked like Superman.
This is going to sound stupid…I get women touching my chest ALOT. Doesn’t seem like it’d be that bad, but they’re usually not my type, you know…the fat and/or ugly ones. Most good looking women I’ve known didn’t have to be so forward.
Another funny one was just a couple weeks ago I was setup to go out with some girl I’d never met before. Later she told me she had thought I was going to be boring because I looked like the kind of guy who would just talk about the gym.ahaha. She also thought I weighed alot more than I do which I took as a compliment.
[quote]Outrage247 wrote:
I started out around 300lbs a little over a year ago, right now im at 210. I still have around 30lbs to lose though. I worked at a video store where people wouldnt come in for a month or two and ask if I was a new person. After I told them I had been there two years they would freak out and ask wtf happened to me.[/quote]
Nice work Outrage247. How did you lose all the weight?
I had that happen to me at a previous job. I had lost 30lbs, and regular customers would come and not even recognize me, and assume I didn’t know anything, even though I had helped them out before lol.
When i started college i was 144lbs and reasonably in shape… then a combination of change in lifestyle, diet and habits resulted in me gaining 50lbs within a year. gradually over the next few years i somehow managed to change everything that was wrong and began losing weight.
now i am about 190lbs and most of it is muscle though my fat percentage is still at a high 24percent and i am anything but fit… but its a significant improvement over the telatubby i was not too long ago. As a result since the change has been gradual and my weight gain so sudden and significant i have not quite had the luck some of you other blokes have cherished.
People seem to have formed the stereotype that i am a fat slob and sort of tread upon me with that assumption. it used to get to me, especially when a friend tried to set me up with this chick who herself was quite overweight. i was more offended for her rather than for myself at how judgmental people can be at times. but now that sort of behavior is just sheer motivation.
i work out and run with more purpose and since the change is gradual and not quite noticeable to people i am in contact on a day to day basis, i promise to myself that i will not be quite as judgmental of other obese or unfit people once i regain better fitness.
[quote]allNatural wrote:
King of Kings wrote:
Good post
Being a very lanky 80pounder back in the day i get a lot of WOW dude u sure have bulked up.
Being 70 pounds heavier does that 
When i was skinny = No girls
Put on all my size and the woman come out in packs.
The comment i get most is what are those things on top of your shoulders.I say traps,they say what are…traps? 
How tall are you? did you mean you used to be 180?
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Hahaha yeah sorry my bad.
I meant 180 pounds
6 feet 4 and 80 pounds would be a sight to see.
Over the past year I have gone from 150 pounds skinny (at a guess), to about 190 with a bit of fat, a hell of lot more strength and some funky looking stretch marks. I looked up my Body Mass Index yesterday, for my height that rates me as obese, I found that quite funny.
I’ve had my mother telling me she is worried about my health, asking me if I “know what i’m doing” and saying I might hurt myself. Took me a while to explain what was going on.
I had one guy today saying I had man boobs, and that I might lactate on him. Jive talking bastard.
I also find that random morons as less likely to start some aggro now that I look more likely to break them in two.
When people see me they are like…
DAMN, your a fattie we dont like fatties go back to fattie island.
Even T-men can cry…
But realy tho I stoped seeing a group of friends and since then dwarfed them all by about another 3" in height and close to 100lbs. And I started out taller than them to begin with.
They usualy comment about me gettin big and that kind of thing.
Interesting responses. Living in a college house, my diet is by far the healthiest out of anyone. Most people’s diet consists of fast food, restaurant food, pasta, and frozen food like burritos.
Then they look at me funny when I come out with a big plate of broccoli (cooked in a wok with olive oil = amazing).
Also, one time I brought an MRP to a party since I knew I wouldn’t be eating anything other than miller high life. Kinda snuck it in so I didn’t get any reactions.
I’m always coming up with new ways to prepare beans too. Gotta experiment a few times, but a mixture of black beans/corn/shredded turkey is great despite its odd looks.
After going from 175 to 215 in about a year, I noticed the assholes who used to walk in to me on a busy city sidewalk would gladly get out of the way. That’s a nice perk.
After a hockey game a defenseman from the opposing team asked one of my buddies, “How much does that guy weigh? Nobody could move him from the front of the net!” I was only about 220-225 at the time.
A girl once told me that her friend who is a gymnast wants to “climb you like a jungle gym”. She later got the chance.
A girlfriend once said that many people find me “intimidating”. I think that had as much to do with overall demeanor, as it did size.
You’re always expected to lift anything over 10 pounds if you’re in the vicinity. When helping people move, you always get stuck with the refrigerator and the 60" tv.
Of course, the occasional steroid comment, which I can take as an insult and a complement. It’s funny when you get a little bit of size, you may not think you’re big but most of the general population will.
If you’re ever in a bar fight, all the bouncers all grab you at the same time to get you out of there before they even touch anyone else. This even happens when you’re just trying to break it up.