I personally find it repulsive when anyone sports massive bush. I’m always thinking to myself “how does anyone get up the motivation to go down on that?!” I’ve been told by guys that I’m trying to look like a little girl, but these same guys don’t seem to mind.
Waxing is too much work. I just shave regularly, even when single. Maybe it’s a pet peeve.
I so a Caffein Ephedra combo MiMs… but again maybe not good for you til you get your thyroid stuff ironed out. The adrenals tend to get compromised when then thyrlid is off so I wouldnt recommend it for you.
Thanks N&Hall!
No, I won’t be using any of that stuff until I get sorted out.
Stuff sounds cool and I look forward to trying it one day! Isn’t Power Drive,( Biotest ) the kind of product I’m thinking of?
There is no option to see supplement facts anymore as far as I can tell.
I have an unusual question for you ladies. Over the years that I have been training, I am always telling girls they should come to the gym with me. They start out for a few days and then find some reason not to do it anymore. I complain, make fun of them, yadda yadda but then there’s one or two girls that have stuck with it and are at the same strength level as me, teetering on being stronger. Now my best friend wants to compete with me in November. We’re in the same weight class and I’m pissed and hoping she doesn’t want to do it lol I really hate that about myself, but I find it really distracting and awkward to compete against a friend. Even if it’s just everyday training or in meets and I think the only reason is because I don’t want them to be stronger than me. Any of you ever get immature feelings like this? I asked my boyfriend if he ever experiences this and he said it was a woman thing ::rolls eyes::
[quote]DiscoDani wrote:
I have an unusual question for you ladies. Over the years that I have been training, I am always telling girls they should come to the gym with me. They start out for a few days and then find some reason not to do it anymore. I complain, make fun of them, yadda yadda but then there’s one or two girls that have stuck with it and are at the same strength level as me, teetering on being stronger. Now my best friend wants to compete with me in November. We’re in the same weight class and I’m pissed and hoping she doesn’t want to do it lol I really hate that about myself, but I find it really distracting and awkward to compete against a friend. Even if it’s just everyday training or in meets and I think the only reason is because I don’t want them to be stronger than me. Any of you ever get immature feelings like this? I asked my boyfriend if he ever experiences this and he said it was a woman thing ::rolls eyes::[/quote]
Only ALL THE TIME. I’d like to claim that I’m super evolved and mature but in this area I’m not. I think we all have things that we claim as our own and when someone wanders onto our territory, we don’t like it. I was never the ‘pretty’ girl or the popular one so if someone is prettier of more popular, it doesn’t affect me at all because that’s not my territory. However, I was the smart one and now the strong one so if someone wanders into that, I’m not super zen.
I don’t know if it’s a female thing. Has your boyfriend experienced something similar and been cool with it? I don’t mean a friend beating him at something but beating him at something that your boyfriend was previously always better at. There’s a big difference.
Pfew, I feel better now and know exactly what you mean.
I mean, my boyfriend does say things like, “oh man that guys stronger than me and he’s smaller” but I don’t think it really occupies too much of his thoughts. I think he’d be really happy to have a friend compete with him but I am hoping that my friend flakes. I think that’s really shitty of me!
Totes. A couple of years ago, one of my friends decided to jump into a bikini contest I was doing. We are the same height but she is a blonde haired, blue eyed skinny girl with HUGE tits. Training for the bikini division isnt rocket science, but she kept asking me for advice and what I was doing and I kept biting my tongue from giving her bad advice. In the end, the competition was good for me. She wound up having pretty bad posture and posing, so her otherwise perfect body didnt fare very well.
Powerlifting is a little different for me, though. I dont get too caught up in who I am competing with and never really go to win. Perhaps because PL isnt what I am known for whereas at the time, figure/bikini shit was a bigger part of who I was to outsiders. Now-a-days, people are very surprised to hear that I do a bit of powerlifting. I am also fully aware that Im not nor will I ever be the best at it.
Oof, I can imagine it being WAYYYY more awkward in a bikini contest. How do they judge those competitions anyway? Seems like there is a lot of gray area in judging. Whereas in powerlifting, the outcome is pretty clear.
Dani@ I totally agree too and don’t think you’re out of line a bit!
I always find that my heart is too big and generous and I always let others in to do things with me but then when it turns to a negative (such as in this case) I regret ever opening my mouth!
You can’t except your BF to get it because they just don’t! 
Let her compete with you and just turn these feeling into the extra motivation to kill it in the gym!
Best of luck!
Dani—
The thing you said about it being pretty grey is dead on. Ya never know.
To expand on my previous post: it’s different with the friends I’ve made by competing. Most of them have been around as long or longer than I have; some are better and others aren’t. It’s different because it’s their thing too and that was the venue in which the friendships were made. The envy is more towards those who feel like interlopers.
[quote]DiscoDani wrote:
I have an unusual question for you ladies. Over the years that I have been training, I am always telling girls they should come to the gym with me. They start out for a few days and then find some reason not to do it anymore. I complain, make fun of them, yadda yadda but then there’s one or two girls that have stuck with it and are at the same strength level as me, teetering on being stronger. Now my best friend wants to compete with me in November. We’re in the same weight class and I’m pissed and hoping she doesn’t want to do it lol I really hate that about myself, but I find it really distracting and awkward to compete against a friend. Even if it’s just everyday training or in meets and I think the only reason is because I don’t want them to be stronger than me. Any of you ever get immature feelings like this? I asked my boyfriend if he ever experiences this and he said it was a woman thing ::rolls eyes::[/quote]
The most motivation I’ve ever received from one girl was being beaten by her and knowing we started training at the same time. It’s a pride-eater, but you can’t pay money for the amount of motivation you’ll have afterwards. Same thing goes for a really bad day in the gym.
All good points! Thanks gals.
We all want to have a “niche”…to be known for something, the pretty girl, the smart girl, the strong girl, etc when someone in our circle inches into our territory, we feel like our identity is threatened. There was a girl at my gym who was the “hot girl” and the “fitness guru” of the gym. When she got into bodybuilding, I felt really threatened, especially when she was going to compete against me. Even though she wasn’t as big, she looked good. She ended up not competing due to sleeping around and having her husband find out about it, I was so relieved, especially since she may have beaten me! Not because she was bigger or more cut (I was), but because she was more attractive…you never know what’s going to influence a judge.
Helllllllllooooooooooooooooo, Brute and I compete at the same competitions, sometimes in the same weight class. That’s pretty much the only reason I stay in equipment…so I don’t have to lose to her.
oh man…I would hate to compete against you and Brute!
Ok, dumb question: Which are better? High top Chucks or low top Chucks?
mine are low
High tops for sure, I like the ankle support.
Wearing my beat up old chucks at the beach, I heard a girl tell her friend while pointing at my feet, see those shoes, I want those shoes.
LOL.
Mine are high tops. Custom ones actually. And they’re totally awesome. I’ve never really seen anyone train in the low ones