Pussy-itis, Do You Have It?

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Who cares if you wear a wife beater?

I do wonder how someone can train and not sweat, but I guess if you live in Iceland or Alaska, it makes sense.[/quote]

Hey X great post!!! But don’t let the Northern boys off the hook. I’m a proud born and raised Alaskan and I never sweat more than when I do squats. The most “fun” was when I did a high intensity routine. I hit 10x5 with with 360 with 30-45 sec rest intervals in between each set, back when I weighed 190. After number ten I just layed down on the floor and twitched.

This guy couldn’t understand why I was smiling afterwards as I dragged myself to the locker room. I told him if you don’t understand, I can’t explain it to you.

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No, but I do have a yeast infection.

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[quote]Barachiel wrote:

This guy couldn’t understand why I was smiling afterwards as I dragged myself to the locker room. I told him if you don’t understand, I can’t explain it to you.[/quote]

Ahhhhh that’s the best feeling in the world. Well one of em at least.

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
beachguy498 wrote:
Designer shirts my ass. Mine are largely sleeveless shirts with chlorine stains on them from working on my pool. I also grimace at spending more than $10 on any given pair of sweat pants or shorts. I cruise the clearance racks at Bobs or Kohls when I feel extravagant.

BG

yeah you’re fucking badass. i love seeing those guns of yours.

so maybe i work out in a shirt that some people would only wear out, at least have the decency to wear something that looks clean at a PUBLIC gym.

i’m not asking you to put in hair gel and spray cologne. but it pisses me off when i see these sloppy, usually fat, dudes in stained sleeveless shirt walking around thinking their badass b/c they’re wearing their 1970’s ‘golds gym’ shirt with pit/food/animal/sex/blood stains all over it.

next time you’re feeling ‘extravagent’, how about buy a shirt that comes with sleeves?[/quote]

You’ve just described me to a ‘T’. Except I don’t think I’m a badass because of the shabby clothes. It’s because I’m deluded.

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:
No, but I do have a yeast infection.[/quote]

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
beachguy498 wrote:
Designer shirts my ass. Mine are largely sleeveless shirts with chlorine stains on them from working on my pool. I also grimace at spending more than $10 on any given pair of sweat pants or shorts. I cruise the clearance racks at Bobs or Kohls when I feel extravagant.

BG

yeah you’re fucking badass. i love seeing those guns of yours.

so maybe i work out in a shirt that some people would only wear out, at least have the decency to wear something that looks clean at a PUBLIC gym.

i’m not asking you to put in hair gel and spray cologne. but it pisses me off when i see these sloppy, usually fat, dudes in stained sleeveless shirt walking around thinking their badass b/c they’re wearing their 1970’s ‘golds gym’ shirt with pit/food/animal/sex/blood stains all over it.

next time you’re feeling ‘extravagent’, how about buy a shirt that comes with sleeves?[/quote]

Congratulations! You are in the running for “d-bag” of the week, but the week has just started.

BG

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[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
Congratulations! You are in the running for “d-bag” of the week, but the week has just started.

BG
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This coming from the guy who intentionally dons ratty, stained nasty clothing.

Way to be a fuckin’ hero, Indy Rock Pete.

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ARRRGH … the 67 year old flabby naked guys in the locker room!!

Just to throw in my pennies, personally i don’t give a shit about anyone else while I’m lifting … I used to but not anymore.

Now I barely notice anyone while I lift unless they interrupt my set by asking me a question or some shit, then I just give them the shortest, most concise answer I can muster through my huffing and puffing, put my ear buds back in and proceed to exercise my anti-social behavior … God I hate how people try to socialize at the gym … it’s ok to say what up but keep it short … i’m there for a fucking reason and it ain’t to talk to you!

/rant

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
BradTGIF wrote:

Don’t mean you have to wear it. That stuff is ridiculous.

they are comfortable shirts that are free for me. that’s why i wear them.

lol yes, some of them are rediculous. that’s why i wear them at the gym. i’m not trying to get a date out of you brad.

i’ll wear my polo shirts on the weekend when i’m trying to impress you.[/quote]

Just as long as they’re not Mossy Oak or Realtree or some shit.

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[quote]polo77j wrote:
ARRRGH … the 67 year old flabby naked guys in the locker room!!

Just to throw in my pennies, personally i don’t give a shit about anyone else while I’m lifting … I used to but not anymore.

Now I barely notice anyone while I lift unless they interrupt my set by asking me a question or some shit, then I just give them the shortest, most concise answer I can muster through my huffing and puffing, put my ear buds back in and proceed to exercise my anti-social behavior … God I hate how people try to socialize at the gym … it’s ok to say what up but keep it short … i’m there for a fucking reason and it ain’t to talk to you!

/rant[/quote]

It isn’t about noticing other people, it is about THE PEOPLE HERE, on this site who apparently work out with the intensity of a 3 year old yet wonder why they aren’t gaining much muscle.

These are the types who make posts about how they gained 5lbs but all of it was fat.

Clearly people like that don’t even know what hard work is and they think their specific rep range is what will put muscle on them despite not even straining at all.

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Interesting thread.

I do find it distressing that just about everyone half-asses it in the gym. Sure, not everyone wants to be hyooge. I can understand that; it’s not for them, fine. But does that give people an excuse to not even try? I don’t give a shit if someone is training for cross country, a powerlifting meet, or soccer. Effort comes through motivation of working towards a goal.

It’s easy for BB’ers/PL’ers to get in and bust their ass (theoretically,) because they’ve got the goal of: I’m going to move more weight, get more reps, destroy my log book from last week… or some variable of the goal.

I see the high school kids (who I know play sports) come in, but they’re doing most of the things listed already through the thread.

Now here’s where I get stumped: Would be engaging in the same behavior during a football game? During a soccer match? In a wrestling meet?

Nope.

They’d be giving it their 100% - At least the good athletes would - and wouldn’t think twice about it. I don’t get when the correlation between training hard and playing hard was lost, for whatever it’s worth.

And another thought - Is the new Abercrombie and Fitch forums? Goddamn, I haven’t heard so many whiney pussies discussing their fucking CLOTHES since the last time I walked by a sorority house.

If someone wants to wear nice clothes to the gym - Who fucking cares? If someone wants to wear ratty, dirty old-ass clothes to the gym - WHO FUCKING CARES?

These forums depress me more and more every time I log on.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Tex Ag wrote:
For some reason my forearms feel better when I have something on them. Plus, it is damn cold in my gym most of the year. This morning at 5 a.m. the thermometer read 48 F-- indoors. I had to wear sweat tops and bottoms. They absorbed my sweat nicely.

I am not counting me in this, but nearly all the big guys at my gym start in sweats/long sleeves/etc. whereas there smaller guys tend to wear tanks or cut off sleeves.

I wonder if there is something to that…

There is. If I am going to be stared at, I would rather it be when I am hitting it hard and not upon walking into the gym and setting up to lift heavy.

I’ve seen pros do this before. Dexter Jackson does it. He starts in a full shirt or sweats and then removes it once he gets a pump going. I think it just helps with focus.

Once you get to a certain size, you expect someone is going to stare at you. It isn’t that it bothers you, but I would rather have my mind on what I am doing alone.[/quote]

I actually just randomly started doing this in the past year. I think it is beneficial. It allows me to stay warm and build up a nice sweat much faster, getting me ready for my heavy sets. When that time comes, the baggy shirt comes off. It’s second nature for me now.

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-I realize that, most likely, you and I will never be in a life and death situation that requires us to physically save ourselves, however should we have to pull ourselves up and out the window of a building that’s on fire…I win…should we have to lift a car off a loved one…I win…should we have to push a rock out of the way to escape…I win.

I guess if we ever get chased for 26.2 miles by prey moving no faster than 3.5 miles an hour…you win.

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[quote]NeelyDan wrote:
beachguy498 wrote:
Congratulations! You are in the running for “d-bag” of the week, but the week has just started.

BG

This coming from the guy who intentionally dons ratty, stained nasty clothing.

Way to be a fuckin’ hero, Indy Rock Pete.[/quote]

It’s simply not a fashion show for some of us. If I pull out my Yucko the Clown t-shirt with cut off sleeves (done by me) then that’s what I wear. I don’t care if I match, don’t care if it’s “cool” looking. I’m not there to impress, I’m there to lift.

Strangely enough when I wear my ratty clothes I get left alone much more than when I wear my UA stuff. For some reason Ipod on high and headphones in still invites conversation for some people.

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[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
-When I am done I will ring out my shirt before getting on my sweats to leave.

After your workout, you:
A) dry your nuts with the community hair drier
B) primp in the mirror in the weights section
C) strut around aimlessly
D) talk up the cardio ladyz who be wantin’ yo fine asz.

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or E) rub vaseline on your nipples in a circular motion.

Not sure if this was pre or post workout but I saw a guy in the locker room doing this last night and I almost spit up my Surge.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
polo77j wrote:
ARRRGH … the 67 year old flabby naked guys in the locker room!!

Just to throw in my pennies, personally i don’t give a shit about anyone else while I’m lifting … I used to but not anymore.

Now I barely notice anyone while I lift unless they interrupt my set by asking me a question or some shit, then I just give them the shortest, most concise answer I can muster through my huffing and puffing, put my ear buds back in and proceed to exercise my anti-social behavior … God I hate how people try to socialize at the gym … it’s ok to say what up but keep it short … i’m there for a fucking reason and it ain’t to talk to you!

/rant

It isn’t about noticing other people, it is about THE PEOPLE HERE, on this site who apparently work out with the intensity of a 3 year old yet wonder why they aren’t gaining much muscle.

These are the types who make posts about how they gained 5lbs but all of it was fat.

Clearly people like that don’t even know what hard work is and they think their specific rep range is what will put muscle on them despite not even straining at all.[/quote]

I think there are two main types of people in the gym: over reachers and under achievers. Over-reachers are the type who don’t know when to pull back, go all out all the time and need to be told to pull it back occasionally for recovery’s sake. I think gymgoers used to primarily be this type and that’s why we originally got writers talking about “Active recovery” and planned “Deloads”.

Now we have a shift to under achievers being the bulk of people in the weight room. They don’t know how to push themselves, how to apply effort when they’re uncomfortable. They’re chronically undertrained and never build up impressive levels of any physical quality since they probably also never played a sport or did anything physical.

The problem is, the people from the second list have no business using fancy shit like “deloads” and recovery and complicated programs since they can’t push hard enough. What they need is to learn how to not be a pussbag. Sometimes writing out a plan on paper is good, since as long as you follow it you know you’re progressing. Training in teams with a partner/partners who aren’t pussbags will help. Competing in a sport or at least involving yourself with those who do is also good.

I am one of the second group, and I’m always looking for ways to make myself train harder. I never got any results to speak of until I started training for powerlifting with a strong-ass lightweight powerlifter.

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I’m with you on the Affliction shirts… period. Anybody that wears a $75 designer t-shirt is a fuckup in my opinion… let alone to the gym.

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d) Stop in between each set to shadow box 6 inches in front of the mirror and 1 inch in front of the dumbbell rack.

You don’t work out at 24 hours on Westhiemer do you?

I see a lot of this crap there.

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[quote]JN7844 wrote:
Tex Ag wrote:
-When I am done I will ring out my shirt before getting on my sweats to leave.

After your workout, you:
A) dry your nuts with the community hair drier
B) primp in the mirror in the weights section
C) strut around aimlessly
D) talk up the cardio ladyz who be wantin’ yo fine asz.

or E) rub vaseline on your nipples in a circular motion.

Not sure if this was pre or post workout but I saw a guy in the locker room doing this last night and I almost spit up my Surge.[/quote]

I used to be disgusted by the locker room scene but I’m startin to get a kick out of it.

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I’m by no means big yet, I’m damn sure not going to waste these younger years not achieving a lot of mass though.

I do squats until my legs shake uncontrollably and then try to do my leg stretch (dc guys know what I’m talkin about) I just want to collapse at 50 secs yet I hang on as long as I can. sometimes even laying for a minute or two on my back.

I love straining and feeling every vein blow up with blood and I clench as everything is just pulsating and I’m grinding as many reps as I can.

I tell myself I’m not going to fucking leave this gym wondering about if I gave it my all.

Some I’ve seen will do bench and curls everytime and do the same weight, whilst wearing a hollister or ambercrombie small or medium sized shirt. (ex gym partner actually, emphasis on EX)

I push it more reps when most people quit when it’s to much good “pain”, others will stop many reps short cause they don’t want to “overtrain”.

anyways I have to go fuckin eat something right now.

edit:surprisingly my powerhouse gym doesn’t seem to have to much shit classified as “pussy-itis” going on, I see a couple guys that are up around prof x size them and some of the powerlifters I think scared most of them away.

for reference this is the actual powerhouse I workout at (where steve and justin harris did their dc training)
"Project Superheavyweight" Trailer - YouTube and this pushes me even more.