Why DON'T You Workout?

Iron_Dwarf · March 16, 2011, 8:38pm

A friend of mine was planning on working out with his wife. They did ONE workout together and then she quit. Her reason?

“Exercise isn’t for everyone”.

Dumb ASS.

carbiduis · March 16, 2011, 8:51pm

You want to be a better you?

DONT IMPORVE YOUR:
chess skills, fencing skills, typing, stamp collecting, video game skills, reading, jogging, gymnastic, fishing/hunting …the list goes on

DO:
LIFT FUCKING WEIGHTS…it makes you better at EVERYTHING/LIFE.

If I was a chess team coach I would have my kids doing squats atleast once a week, and those kids would be better chess players for it.

So yeah, I’ll look down on people who dont lift weights, It’s not my fault they chose the more worthless hobbie(s) that makes them better at only that one thing

Rational_Gaze · March 16, 2011, 9:08pm

[quote]carbiduis wrote:
If I was a chess team coach I would have my kids doing squats atleast once a week, and those kids would be better chess players for it.

So yeah, I’ll look down on people who dont lift weights, It’s not my fault they chose the more worthless hobbie(s) that makes them better at only that one thing[/quote]

You’re retarded.

jskrabac · March 16, 2011, 9:15pm

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
I remember a point when I was doing nothing but the stairmaster

Kheaslim put me in my place pretty damn quick

Deadlifts changed my life[/quote]

We can tell…damn!

The3Commandments · March 16, 2011, 9:15pm

[quote]therajraj wrote:
Not everyone.

Some guys are naturally very lean at normal weight with little to no physical activity.

I have a couple friends like that, who couldn’t care less about such pursuits. They don’t want to be bigger either.

[/quote]

This describes the majority of people that I know. This sort seems to branch into two categories–the first is by far the larger and consists of those who, as many here say, don’t have “the time” or don’t like working very hard physically (and, in many cases, mentally for that matter). That I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for.

Those in the other category, which probably makes up some 90% of the males at my school (fwiw, it’s an ivy league grad school, so I guess it’s just embodying the stereotype), are of a different sort. Sure, many of them don’t enjoy physical exertion at this point (most are 120lb, pasty-faced wealthy white males), but that’s because many of them have centered themselves around mental exertion that’s extremely comparable to the sort of time, effort, and thought that we put into physical training. That I can respect, of course, and I even think of it as another form of “training”–just not physical. Whether it’s been with running or now with lifting, I train my balls off every day. When I look at them, I see them training their balls off every day as well–perhaps not with the immediate intensity that I exhibit during a session, but the steady pounding away at very complex problems is nonetheless inspiring.

And it’s just not the case that everybody would like to look better. For some people, certain problems or topics (religious, academic, policy-oriented, etc) can literally come to engross some to the degree that something like appearance, beyond basic health concerns, is pretty secondary. Put another way, they don’t wake up in the morning wanting to make themselves better–they wake up wanting to solve some problems that are larger than they are.

Again, not common, but there are enough of these people that they deserve acknowledgment.

A very large percentage of people with graduate degrees exercise regularly (something like 85%), but I truly wonder how many of them actually Train. The former category would be, e.g., the tons of 20-30 year old males who run one marathon a year in 4:30 and stay in “shape” to do that, while the latter category would be those who really hit their training hard (to use the marathon as an example, a 20-30 year old male who runs near the 3 hour mark).

Marzouk · March 16, 2011, 9:35pm

I like playing chess… don’t diss it lol

imhungry · March 16, 2011, 9:50pm

[quote]carbiduis wrote:
You want to be a better you?

DONT IMPORVE YOUR:
chess skills, fencing skills, typing, stamp collecting, video game skills, reading, jogging, gymnastic, fishing/hunting …the list goes on

DO:
LIFT FUCKING WEIGHTS…it makes you better at EVERYTHING/LIFE.

If I was a chess team coach I would have my kids doing squats atleast once a week, and those kids would be better chess players for it.

So yeah, I’ll look down on people who dont lift weights, It’s not my fault they chose the more worthless hobbie(s) that makes them better at only that one thing[/quote]

You have so much to learn, Spaz.

smh23 · March 16, 2011, 10:12pm

[quote]carbiduis wrote:
You want to be a better you?

DONT IMPORVE YOUR:
chess skills, fencing skills, typing, stamp collecting, video game skills, reading, jogging, gymnastic, fishing/hunting …the list goes on

DO:
LIFT FUCKING WEIGHTS…it makes you better at EVERYTHING/LIFE.

If I was a chess team coach I would have my kids doing squats atleast once a week, and those kids would be better chess players for it.

So yeah, I’ll look down on people who dont lift weights, It’s not my fault they chose the more worthless hobbie(s) that makes them better at only that one thing[/quote]

I agree that lifting improves many if not all areas of life, but if you think reading is as insignificant as stamp collecting (or even insignificant at all), you are extremely stupid.

No insult intended to the stamp-collectors of T-Nation.

angus_beef · March 16, 2011, 10:19pm

[quote]Marzouk wrote:
I see guys walking round weighting 120, - 150 with stupid fucking Bieber hair cuts and skinny jeans thinking to myself:

Why the hell don’t you wana be stronger?
Why don’t you wana look better?
Why don’t you wana be healthier?

I’m sure there will be a day when you’ll have to move a washing machine or a sofa or a fridge and you’ll be disappointed with yourself.

I just don’t understand how every able bodied person who can afford it doesn’t work out.[/quote]

I see guys walking around 230-250 pounds of muscle and i’m thinking to myself.

Why do you lift heavy things only to put it right back down?
Does he wear man thongs to show his glutes?
Does he use a luffa to wipe his ass?

Are you saying guys who don’t work out are weak?.. Because i know guys that work out and they’re still weak.
Are you saying there are no other ways to look better?
Are you saying there are no other methods to being healthier ?..

As an undergrad i moved a couple times and never had to move a washing machine or a fridge.

People don’t work out because it’s not beneficial to anything they want to accomplish in life, it’s that simple.

B_L_U_Ninja · March 16, 2011, 10:19pm

Not really the response you expected eh? Sorry to break it to you man but the majority of the posters are right. Some people just dont give a fuck about this shit and have other interests that for them will make a “better you”.

If all the great presidents and influential people of the world trained 5x a week, timed their meals and wathced their carb intakes, this world would be a shit hole.

We should worry about ourselves and not look down on 125lb “grown men”. Trust me, I think that would actually make US BETTER people.

Marzouk · March 16, 2011, 10:29pm

[quote]B.L.U. Ninja wrote:
Not really the response you expected eh? Sorry to break it to you man but the majority of the posters are right. Some people just dont give a fuck about this shit and have other interests that for them will make a “better you”.

If all the great presidents and influential people of the world trained 5x a week, timed their meals and wathced their carb intakes, this world would be a shit hole.

We should worry about ourselves and not look down on 125lb “grown men”. Trust me, I think that would actually make US BETTER people.[/quote]

Dude, the world is a shit hole!

Again i wasn’t talking about people who watch carb intake, and time meals or even train 5 times a week. I was talking about average who does an hour 3 times a week.

I’m pretty sure Obama hits the eliptical in the white house every morning and has a nutritionist.

Dre_the_Hatchet · March 16, 2011, 10:30pm

[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:

[quote]carbiduis wrote:
If I was a chess team coach I would have my kids doing squats atleast once a week, and those kids would be better chess players for it.

So yeah, I’ll look down on people who dont lift weights, It’s not my fault they chose the more worthless hobbie(s) that makes them better at only that one thing[/quote]

You’re retarded.[/quote]

Sarcasm detector broken, I suppose.

Also, the bro-science is heavy in this thread again…

mfw 400+lbs dead-lifts are unhealthy
mfw fat is the dietary culprit (Starbucks example)
mfw when being heavier than 90.7kg is unhealthy
mfw eating 4,000 calories is unhealthy

Marzouk · March 16, 2011, 10:32pm

[quote]angus_beef wrote: