I think Sluicy is female, no? We call our female friends girlfriends.
I stopped showing my girlfriends photos of figure athletes I admire, too. They’re always horrified that I admire these women.
Oop, Sluicy beat me to it.
Thanks girlfrieeeend 
[quote]Alffi wrote:
Cool. Another “We’re awesome” thread.[/quote]
If the shoe fits…
The thing I don’t get is how people can’t understand that I actually ENJOY working out and training. Most people look at it as a chore and something that gets in the way of everyday life, they don’t see the fun factor and how self satisfying it is to have a great work out.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Alffi wrote:
Cool. Another “We’re awesome” thread.
If the shoe fits…[/quote]
Hold it up, take a pic, and post.
[quote]sluicy wrote:
polo77j wrote:
Alffi wrote:
Cool. Another “We’re awesome” thread.
If the shoe fits…
Hold it up, take a pic, and post.[/quote]
I would’ve already had a pic up if I weren’t at work … I’m thoughtful like that…
[quote]strangec wrote:
The thing I don’t get is how people can’t understand that I actually ENJOY working out and training. Most people look at it as a chore and something that gets in the way of everyday life, they don’t see the fun factor and how self satisfying it is to have a great work out.[/quote]
My biggest problem, people look at me like a nutcase. But it’s hard for me to leave the gym, I just enjoy it more than anything else. I practically can’t understand how people like to sit down and watch tv all day.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
strangec wrote:
I practically can’t understand how people like to sit down and watch tv all day.[/quote]
I know that’s right!
[quote]Alffi wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Alffi wrote:
Cool. Another “We’re awesome” thread.
Well, it’s better than your “let’s be average!” posts.
Actually 220 pounds is a ‘healthy’ weight BMI wise for a two meter tall (6’7?) person. People on here can develop warped views about size. Best to compare yourself to the average population,which puts on pounds of fat annually. Also try to derive faith from your gym numbers,if you have any. It will make you feel better about ‘average’ size.
Yeah…that was classic.
But it’s true. Funny spin though. You should not argue with that,it will only make you look better by your criteria.
And you don’t know how hard it is to be average. It takes a lot of dedication and hard work to remain average,being happy without dying to look like someone else,inhibiting the temptation to feed one’s narcissism. [/quote]
Yeah…that does sound like hard work. It’s a good thing I don’t desire to look just like anyone else and that all of the hard work to make changes makes me happy as well.
By the way, you seem to be feeding your own “narcissism” just fine.
People with extreme musculature and those who feel compelled to make snide comments about them are two sides of the same coin. If they weren’t insecure about your muscles, they wouldn’t say stupid shit about it. If you weren’t insecure about whatever, you wouldn’t build an extreme amount of muscle and then get bent out of shape when some dipshit made negative comments about it. Therefore, you are both retarded.
Oh, and about half the fitness models featured on the side are hot. The other half look like men in drag.
[quote]Styfus wrote:
People with extreme musculature and those who feel compelled to make snide comments about them are two sides of the same coin. If they weren’t insecure about your muscles, they wouldn’t say stupid shit about it. If you weren’t insecure about whatever, you wouldn’t build an extreme amount of muscle and then get bent out of shape when some dipshit made negative comments about it. Therefore, you are both retarded.
Oh, and about half the fitness models featured on the side are hot. The other half look like men in drag.
[/quote]
Sometimes, mentioning that something gets irritating does not mean “insecurity”. If EVERY SINGLE TIME you left the house some comment was made, I would bet you would eventually get tired of it no matter how secure you were with yourself.
I personally don’t have that problem as most of the comments get are positive. However, I also cover up more now because the way people act lately is different than it used to be. The media and society as a whole is to blame for that.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Styfus wrote:
People with extreme musculature and those who feel compelled to make snide comments about them are two sides of the same coin. If they weren’t insecure about your muscles, they wouldn’t say stupid shit about it. If you weren’t insecure about whatever, you wouldn’t build an extreme amount of muscle and then get bent out of shape when some dipshit made negative comments about it. Therefore, you are both retarded.
Oh, and about half the fitness models featured on the side are hot. The other half look like men in drag.
Sometimes, mentioning that something gets irritating does not mean “insecurity”. If EVERY SINGLE TIME you left the house some comment was made, I would bet you would eventually get tired of it no matter how secure you were with yourself.
I personally don’t have that problem as most of the comments get are positive. However, I also cover up more now because the way people act lately is different than it used to be. The media and society as a whole is to blame for that.[/quote]
You obviuosly didn’t read the memo. Your not allowed to speak up for yourself in America.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Styfus wrote:
People with extreme musculature and those who feel compelled to make snide comments about them are two sides of the same coin. If they weren’t insecure about your muscles, they wouldn’t say stupid shit about it. If you weren’t insecure about whatever, you wouldn’t build an extreme amount of muscle and then get bent out of shape when some dipshit made negative comments about it. Therefore, you are both retarded.
Oh, and about half the fitness models featured on the side are hot. The other half look like men in drag.
Sometimes, mentioning that something gets irritating does not mean “insecurity”. If EVERY SINGLE TIME you left the house some comment was made, I would bet you would eventually get tired of it no matter how secure you were with yourself.
I personally don’t have that problem as most of the comments get are positive. However, I also cover up more now because the way people act lately is different than it used to be. The media and society as a whole is to blame for that.
You obviuosly didn’t read the memo. Your not allowed to speak up for yourself in America.
[/quote]
Apparently so. People throw this “insecure” term around way too loosely as if any care at all about how you are treated makes you insecure. That’s retarded. If some nerd gets picked on every single day in high school, fighting back does not make him “insecure”. Speaking of it does not make him “insecure”. Yet, somehow, every bodybuilder is insecure if he even looks at himself in a mirror or asks someone else how a body part is coming along. I would think the person judging others like that would be the insecure one.
[quote]Styfus wrote:
People with extreme musculature and those who feel compelled to make snide comments about them are two sides of the same coin. If they weren’t insecure about your muscles, they wouldn’t say stupid shit about it. If you weren’t insecure about whatever, you wouldn’t build an extreme amount of muscle and then get bent out of shape when some dipshit made negative comments about it. Therefore, you are both retarded.
Oh, and about half the fitness models featured on the side are hot. The other half look like men in drag.
[/quote]
Shut up midget.
I don’t let people see me read T-Nation at work; mainly b/c I’m supposed to be working.
But I have gotten all sorts of negative comments from friends and family about my life style.
My family thinks that the gym is a chore and if they want to see me on the weekend they wonder why I can’t “skip it” for once. I see it as a job; one that I want to go to. When I bring my own food to family outings, they don’t get it. We are Italian and eating food is a major component of what we do. My father laughed when he helped me move and saw I had a digital scale that I use on a daily basis. I’ve gotten a slew of comments from my mother about supplements, gaining weight, lifting heavy weights…I give up on her. We don’t even talk about that shit at all anymore.
Some of my friends (obv. ones that don’t train or even attempt to be healthy) don’t see me that much anymore because all they do is drink all night until 4am. The others are all weightlifters and are supportive if I leave the bar for 10 min to go to my car to eat.
All in all, I take what people think of me (out of my fam/friend) with a grain of salt and I continue on my path.
One major component to keeping me on point is my girlfriend whom I live with. She is 100% supportive with my training and eating habits. Not once has she rolled her eyes, asked questions or been annoyed when I get up at 2am to eat, get home late from the gym, pause the movie to pee or make another meal. It’s great to have someone with you at all times who is on your side.
That’s my two cents on the subject.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Yet, somehow, every bodybuilder is insecure if he even looks at himself in a mirror or asks someone else how a body part is coming along. [/quote]
i had that argument years ago with a friend, whne i asked if i looked noticably different than when i had started working out. he made some comments about ego, being gay for asking that, etc. yet he would record his guitar playing all the time and ask for opinions on it. i still dont see what the difference is.
I agree with Prof X on the media and society as a whole is to blame for some of the negative sterotypes that go with being healthy and looking like a bodybuilder. Most shows have the husband being lazy and usually stupid, not caring about doing much except watching football, drinking beer and eating pizza, and to top it all off the wife is usually pretty hot! Then when you have someone on the show who works out they are usually a “health nut” to the extreme and mostly irritating to everyone around them. Or they are the “psycho” one who does Martial Arts and lift weights.
[quote]B rocK wrote:
One major component to keeping me on point is my girlfriend whom I live with. She is 100% supportive with my training and eating habits. Not once has she rolled her eyes, asked questions or been annoyed when I get up at 2am to eat, get home late from the gym, pause the movie to pee or make another meal. It’s great to have someone with you at all times who is on your side.
[/quote]
Gotta love having the right girl man! My gf is the same, she never tells me anything negative about my goals or what I do on a daily basis to achieve them. She tells me all the time that I’m her “Big, sexy, muscle man” - I think she does that one mostly just because she knows I love it lol.
If I get stuck working through my lunch at work she will bring me a 4x4 from in n out so I can run downstairs and eat it b4 the boss even notices I got up from my desk.
However, as great and supportive as she is - I would be doing this with or without her. I love her comments and support that she gives me, but at the same time I do this for me and no one else and she knows that.
[quote]hypnotoad wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Yet, somehow, every bodybuilder is insecure if he even looks at himself in a mirror or asks someone else how a body part is coming along.
i had that argument years ago with a friend, whne i asked if i looked noticably different than when i had started working out. he made some comments about ego, being gay for asking that, etc. yet he would record his guitar playing all the time and ask for opinions on it. i still dont see what the difference is.
[/quote]
Excellant point and comparison!