haha!! yep - 230
overweight people kind of leave me out of conversations, if it is in a service industry, they will treat me different than another obese person.
you dont notice this?
Can you give me an example? This is a little vague and hard for me to understand.
Like, I get left out of conversations, but it’s many times because I have no interest in the conversation. Be guys talking about baseball or boating, for example.
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People who don’t know me often perceive me as being ‘scary’…that’s about the only downside I can think of, most of the other downsides are quite minor tbf.
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One of my daughter’s soccer teammates saw me walking into the park, from a distance, and said, “Wow, who’s that?”
My daughter couldn’t figure out who she was talking about. The teammate said, said that jacked guy in the hat with your mom."
My daughter was creeped out.
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Had something like that once. My son was told by his team mates that I looked like a gorilla had breed with a grizzly.
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That sounds like a nice and dangerous combination.
Nothing improved my football and basketball like track (minus weights of course.)
The 800 is tough as nails. It’s the perfect mix of what’s essentially a distance “sprint.”
Honestly after I’d ran the 800 a few times I could cruise the 400. I wasn’t blazing fast in the 400 but could hold my own because I could motor the whole thing because of being used to running the half.
I guess its hard to be specific. Think it may be all in my imagination?
It’s possible.
I DO have people make presumptions about my nutritional habits. They tend to assume I’ve VERY health conscious, so when they see me drinking an energy drink, they’ll say “That’s not healthy: why are you drinking it?” Or ask if it’s a cheat day or something, but I figure it’s just banter.
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I guess it depends on your view point.
Ditto. 400 & 800 were my best races in track. I sucked at the real sprints, and though I could run 10+ miles with no problem, just lacked the speed past a couple miles in. 800 meters though I simply had a better combination of speed and endurance, though I was the best at neither, than my opponents.
Been here before. It’s crazy what brining protein shakes into the office does or at least did years ago. People look at you like you brought a crack pipe in. When you don’t have chips and a Dr Pepper at the break room because you have chicken people also look weird at you. “Maybe this white dude is from some weird European country that’s never heard of Doritos?”
Also everybody assumes you’re on steroids. Honestly even when I was my most jacked I don’t think I looked jacked really just jacked compared to the average fatass. Which doesn’t take much.
I’ve never done a cycle (not that I care if anyone does I’ve just never done one personally) but I have been asked about it often at the gym especially. It’s like damn go ask the guys over there who may or may not be on but make me look dinky.
You don’t say.
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I don’t: I write.
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Second this one. I have gotten this one since I started lifting over a decade ago in high school. People don’t believe you can bring about rapid change to your body without steroids.
I also can’t tell you the number of times I get “Do take creatine?”, “Well, thats a steroid and cheating”…Ignorant fools.
I’ll parrot the “I used to bench x”
This was actually one of my bosses first conversations with me 2 years ago. I just laughed and didnt have a response. He asked me what was funny, and I just asked why it was only “used to”, and proceeded to tell him to watch every single customer that had a moderate build come in the door. They all say the same fucking thing, like clockwork.
Also, being the mule at any job. People just assume that I can bend over and pick up all the heavy shit just because I’m bigger. Like… my 6’4" 240lb ass doesnt want to get any closer to the floor than you do.
I will say I tend to miss the passive aggressive male competition thing. People tend to think I’m extremely approachable for whatever reason.
People assuming I’m on steroids
People talking about training trying to make it sound as if they know what they’re on about… They don’t.
Being asked to do all the heavy work because I’m “jacked”. I don’t want to do it any more than they do and they also assume I’ll enjoy doing that heavy work.
People assuming I’m a health nut. I eat like shit but just follow a IIFYM approach whether I’m bulking or cutting.
You just move down 10-20 years. 15 or so years is fine and has worked for the Mrs. and me.
For the record, I get the “look mean” thing all the time.
It works in business and for boys who sniff around my daughters.
This is a real thing, Mike Tuchscherer said the same thing a while back about his traps. That would be annoying as hell, either you are going to get patted down or strip searched, every time you go through security.
My only complaint (since I haven’t flown anywhere lately) is buying clothes. A few years ago they started with this skinny jeans thing, now they are making sleeves on shirts and sweaters extra tight. Some skinny guys like shirts that are tight on their arms because it makes them look bigger, but if you actually do have big arms it’s like wearing a blood pressure cuff. I recently went out looking for some clothes and nearly all the XL and XXL shirts are too tight on my arms to be comfortable, but I have old shirts that fit just fine.
Most jeans they sell these days are skin tight on my quads, if I can even get them on. I have a few pairs of some relaxed fit jeans with a waist a couple inches bigger than necessary and they are still tight on my quads, I can barely get my hand in my pocket.
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People assume my life revolves around a hobby that takes 3-4 hours a week.
Drug use accusation. I mean at least accuse me of the drugs I actually take…
Dress shirts and suit jackets need extensive tailoring or made to measure
Can’t walk past my reflection without flexing triceps and soaking in the vanity. Get caught doing it by strangers at least 50% of times.
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