Why are these people talking about the subject at all?
I mean, do they walk up to you and start talking to you for no reason at all, or are you engaging in a conversation that leads in that direction?
Young people can have a lot of annoying blather and know-it-all attitude as well when they don’t actually have any life experiences yet.
Maybe find a different subject to talk about if this one upsets you so much.
[quote]TDog305 wrote:
Sampling of quotes from out of shape fatties at my office:
-Those protein shakes are really going to fuck up your metabolism in the long term
-Fish Oil? Why would I supplement with that? I eat fish and chips at least 3 times a week.
-You shouldn’t eat those walnuts and almonds so much, its going to come back at bite you in the ass. (I’m not even quite sure what that one meant)
-How can you eat plain chicken and spinach so much? That’s disgusting![/quote]
Bastards…
[quote]sasquatch wrote:
aussie486 wrote:
sasquatch wrote:
aussie486 wrote:
I find it a a pain in the arse as well naughtybox, i don’t give a stuff what you where 10 years ago, its about what you are now!
The next time you see your dad and grandpa, I hope you can withstand the pain in the arse it must be to talk to them about their experiences.
One thing i have always done is to listen to other people's experience of life outside of the gym , that is a different matter but i am not going to listen to some bastard who reakons he/she used to be something 20/15/10/5/2 years ago, you know the ex pro athletes and such like.
Have a look at the picture of Louy Simmons in one of the other threads, 1973 and 5 plate squat and still going hard, thats what i respect, not some one who had their time in the sun and learnt nothing from that experince and has a gut and looks like shit. Generally they stay away from me and tell their war stories to the kids, where they are king of the kids. I don't give respect easy, you have to earn it.
garbage. But it’s good to know that your parents and grandparents EARNED your respect.[/quote]
Exactly?So if you meet someone on the street,you automatically show them no respect because they haven’t earned your respect yet?If so what a sad life you must lead.
I think respect should be given freely and lost but does not need to be earned.
[quote]naughtybox wrote:
You guys all band together to think I’m some like phsyco agressive person about this issue?
The fact is that it’s annoying. You’ve never seen someone spit bullshit before? I know some people that actually were good in their day but for them to bring it up EVERY time they see me gets old.
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No. You take stupid BS way too personally. You’re probably the kind of person who got shit on all the time when you were scrawny and so now use your over-inflated ego to put other people down. I bet every time something bad happens to you, you blame it on someone else…it’s never YOUR fault. Do us all a favor a quit whining…it’s not why this site exists.
No matter how old I am, I will always hate Guys older then me when it comes to “workout talk”.
When I was 20, 30 year olds would say “I was like you when I was 20, just wait till you hit 30 you wont be lifting and looking like that!”
When I was 30, 40 year olds would say “I was like you when I was 30, just wait till you hit 40 you wont be lifting and looking like that!”
Now I’m 40 and 50 year olds say “I was like you when I was 40, just wait till you hit 50 you wont be lifting and looking like that!”
SCREW THEM ALL! Keep lifting and never give up!
[quote]naughtybox wrote:
You guys all band together to think I’m some like phsyco agressive person about this issue?
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I dont think you are.
I remember talking shop with a bunch of guys that I had met through mutual friends. They look like they worked out, but were claiming crazy bench, squat and deadlift numbers. At the time I was gullible and believed them. Long story short, I went to train with them and no one came close to lifting what they had told me.
To say they quarter squated would be an insult to all the noobs that quarter squat.
And all of a sudden - they were completely unfamiliar with the deadlift - though they did know for a fact, after I described the exercice, that they are bad for your back.
Most ppl are egotistical and have skewed self perception. This could be seen in all aspects of life, not just in sports.
Not to digress, but I could go on and on about people who pratice bjj think that they are mma fighters, but I’ll save that for another time. 
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
naughtybox wrote:
You guys all band together to think I’m some like phsyco agressive person about this issue?
The fact is that it’s annoying. You’ve never seen someone spit bullshit before? I know some people that actually were good in their day but for them to bring it up EVERY time they see me gets old.
No. You take stupid BS way too personally. You’re probably the kind of person who got shit on all the time when you were scrawny and so now use your over-inflated ego to put other people down. I bet every time something bad happens to you, you blame it on someone else…it’s never YOUR fault. Do us all a favor a quit whining…it’s not why this site exists.[/quote]
You’ve got everything you just said there wrong. Nice try though Sherlock.
[quote]naughtybox wrote:
You guys all band together to think I’m some like phsyco agressive person about this issue?
The fact is that it’s annoying. You’ve never seen someone spit bullshit before? I know some people that actually were good in their day but for them to bring it up EVERY time they see me gets old.[/quote]
Sure I’ve seen someone spit bullshit before. Biff in “Back to the Future”. Ran into a manure truck. Nasty stuff.
But you should have been here back in the day when we had to walk to the gym, in the snow, uphill both ways. None of this pussy riding around in a car crap, no sir. And we had to hunt our PWO meal on the way home. MMMM, nothing like raw beef fresh from the kill. And these cows were much harder to stalk than todays cows are. They’ve bred all the fight right out of them. Bastards.
[quote]K-Narf wrote:
sasquatch wrote:
aussie486 wrote:
sasquatch wrote:
aussie486 wrote:
I find it a a pain in the arse as well naughtybox, i don’t give a stuff what you where 10 years ago, its about what you are now!
The next time you see your dad and grandpa, I hope you can withstand the pain in the arse it must be to talk to them about their experiences.
One thing i have always done is to listen to other people's experience of life outside of the gym , that is a different matter but i am not going to listen to some bastard who reakons he/she used to be something 20/15/10/5/2 years ago, you know the ex pro athletes and such like.
Have a look at the picture of Louy Simmons in one of the other threads, 1973 and 5 plate squat and still going hard, thats what i respect, not some one who had their time in the sun and learnt nothing from that experince and has a gut and looks like shit. Generally they stay away from me and tell their war stories to the kids, where they are king of the kids. I don't give respect easy, you have to earn it.
garbage. But it’s good to know that your parents and grandparents EARNED your respect.
Exactly?So if you meet someone on the street,you automatically show them no respect because they haven’t earned your respect yet?If so what a sad life you must lead.
I think respect should be given freely and lost but does not need to be earned.[/quote]
pardon me, i thought this thread was about individuals who came up to u and started bullshitting on about how they were stronger/bigger/faster than you, not what philosophy i follow outside of this specific context.
[quote]sasquatch wrote:
aussie486 wrote:
sasquatch wrote:
aussie486 wrote:
I find it a a pain in the arse as well naughtybox, i don’t give a stuff what you where 10 years ago, its about what you are now!
The next time you see your dad and grandpa, I hope you can withstand the pain in the arse it must be to talk to them about their experiences.
One thing i have always done is to listen to other people's experience of life outside of the gym , that is a different matter but i am not going to listen to some bastard who reakons he/she used to be something 20/15/10/5/2 years ago, you know the ex pro athletes and such like.
Have a look at the picture of Louy Simmons in one of the other threads, 1973 and 5 plate squat and still going hard, thats what i respect, not some one who had their time in the sun and learnt nothing from that experince and has a gut and looks like shit. Generally they stay away from me and tell their war stories to the kids, where they are king of the kids. I don't give respect easy, you have to earn it.
garbage. But it’s good to know that your parents and grandparents EARNED your respect.[/quote]
Why do you insist on bringing my family into thread in re to the specific issue of people approaching you and telling you how good they use to be, from the start you have taken my comments out of this specific context.
[quote]naughtybox wrote:
I have recently been noticing people around the age of 30-45 years of age telling me their past stories about weight lifting.[/quote]
I’m in the 30-45 age group…
I only hope that one day I will be as big and as strong as you are…
I mean, at 6’ and 175 lbs you are massive!
one day…one day…I will catch up to where you are now…then I will consider myself big and strong…
until then I’ll just lift my little puny weights and dream…someday…someday…
They probably see that you’re hot shit. They want to be like you so they say… yeah I USED to do that. So at one point I WAS good enough (lie), but now I’m a lazy sack of crap with no real goals.
[quote]sasquatch wrote:
decaf is great
decaf is shit
You can’t judge what someone may have done 10 years ago by looking at them now.
sad isn’t it
Shit, look at some of the competitive athletes that are out of their sport for only a year.
states a lot about their level of committment.
I don’t understand your ‘anger’.
do you understand frustration?
Why would anything someone else claims to have done or is doing have any bearing on you?
when they come up invade your personal space and bullshit to u.
Why not just congratulate them and move on.
Do you congratulate everyone, you must be one subservant man
Either they really can do it or could do it,
If they could do it they would.
or they are embellishing a tad to make conversation or live vicariously through you.
otherwise definned as bullshitting but then again you have a certain talent for embellishment youself.
Get mad about the lack of respect the younger generation shows its elders.
why should i respect someone because they are older than me?, don’t know about you but i have meet plenty of people who are older than me who i would never respect for good reason
Get mad about our overtaxation.
agree
Get mad about guys not wiping their sweaty shit off the bench when they walk away.
garbage, you must be mad 24 hours a day then, if this winds u up.
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naughty,
reach between your legs. are they there?
Law
Didn't intend to make the above post difficult to read, just getting use to replying and thanks vroom for the advice.
[quote]DPH wrote:
I’m in the 30-45 age group…
I only hope that one day I will be as big and as strong as you are…
I mean, at 6’ and 175 lbs you are massive!
one day…one day…I will catch up to where you are now…then I will consider myself big and strong…
until then I’ll just lift my little puny weights and dream…someday…someday…[/quote]
I never said I was big. I’m at a decent % body fat though and I look bigger than the average kid my age which is why I get commented on by these older folks that say they used to look like me.
I was also in a motorcycle accident, bruising my shoulder bone and bursting the bursa in my left shoulder therefore extremely heavy weight isn’t alowed for a while and huge gains are tough but thanks. By the looks of your avitar you look like your in good shape for being in this range, I congratulate you for not being talk and actually being fit.
[quote]thelaw12186 wrote:
naughty,
reach between your legs. are they there?
Law[/quote]
I don’t really see why this question is relevent, I’m confused. Maybe you could explain?
I agree with you Naughtybox (just not quite so passionately).
If someone has walked the walk, but got old, decrepid, and weak, then I’ll listen to their stories all day.
It’s those that are obviously full of shit that do my head in. It’s amazing how many older people (who no longer even train) have been 220lb and 4-5% BF in their time, or lifted “more than you”.
Just use it as an exercise in self-restraint. I’m sure they don’t mean to belittle your achievement by doing this, more likely just make themselves feel better.
Wheels.
[quote]lostinthought wrote:
serenity now…serenity now…[/quote]
insanity later
Learn to ignore most people, youre life will be more rewarding that way. Besides, we’re all fed bullshit every day of the week by people we know or people we work with…just learn to ignore.