[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Bauber wrote:
This same trainer comes up to me today while doing arms and tells me I need to lay off the synthol in my arms… I was speechless. [/quote]
Sweet Jesus… It’s a good thing I’m not as big and strong as you. That guy would have gotten his arms ripped off and then beaten to death with them.
I don’t know how you can restrain yourself. I’ve heard that about a lot of enormous guys though actually. You hear people describe Brian Shaw and Mike Jenkins and Koklyaev and Svend Karlsen and all those monsters as the nicest, most patient people ever lol.
What’s going on Bauber? Once you get so huge does your brain just start saying things like “Well it already takes like 6000 calories just to keep this behemoth of a body alive, and we have to do a set of 20 deadlifts with 600lbs later. I don’t think we can spare the energy to crush this guy.”[/quote]
That’s not 100% true, Captain Kirk is a VERY intense dude, and he’s a strong/ripped guy, even today. I met him at a seminar and he spent some time talking about how intense he got before lifting, said he almost killed someone one time for using HIS squat rack (I guess he came in same time every day and some jackoff started to use it while his bag was sitting there), apparently he threw him out the door of the gym… literally.
Bigger dudes don’t get pissed because they don’t need to and have nothing to prove. They prove it by lifting the weights and showing the results. Only insecure people get pissed.
Bauber all joking aside, don’t give in to this douche by getting pissed, that’s exactly what he’s trying to do. And if you did get pissed, he’d claim roid rage. If he pulls shit again 1) laugh in his face and go back to lifting, 2) thank him for the compliments (because anyone who makes wild claims obviously believes what you’re doing is nigh impossible), or 3) tell him he can stop with the pick-up lines you aren’t into guys - and go about your business.
If he pushes further, report him to the owner - who you apparently know - and go from there. In this economy, people can’t afford to lose business. And people will notice if you stop showing up - everyone knows who the “big dawgs” are at the gym.[/quote]
I have gotten used to people making stupid comments, so it isn’t really a huge deal. But, this was a first on the comments from this particular doorail. I am generally known around the few gyms I frequent as approachable by anyone and amiable. I won’t lose my temper because in the long run it just hurts my image.
And I think I have found the root of the problem. He was showing two clients around while I was working out. He was showing them the team training area where people train in a group. All of them look terrible and pay an extra 180 dollars a month for 3 classes a week on top of their gym membership. Some folks have been doing it for 2+ years and are consistently there and look worse or the same as when they started. Anyways long story short a friend of mine there was right next to them as he was explaining the team training while a class was in session. One of the guys looked at the trainer and said, I want to hire you to look like that pointing to me and not like you pointing to the trainer.