going to the movies to see something that’s for sure gonna be crowded(x-man 3) and trying to find a way to make my shoulders fit between two people while beign jammed in those tiny seats for two freaking hours straight…i still don’t know how i did it:)
[quote]gojira wrote:
3. Buying womens clothing…
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Yeh, this is the bit that gets me every time.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I have been buying more and more shirts (tee shirts and shirts to train in) from Old Navy’s web site. They go up to XXXL and their “athletic tees” (polyester mesh) are made of the exact same material that Under Armour uses for their loose gear at about one third the cost.
Mind you, I doubt they have any sizes above an XL actually at their stores very often.[/quote]
Thanks for the tip…I just ordered 6 of the “athletic mesh” for my workouts…I’m tired of messing up my other ones, and it only cost me 65 bucks with shipping.
Not only does the tight shirts blow… but when you’re shit outta luck and end up wearing them, alot of people think you’re a vain dickhead.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Ryu13 wrote:
Everyone loves attention. Big muscles will get people to pay you mind.
True. Also, guys will stare and make comments because someone with more muscle mass looks “hyper-masculine”. You stand out, look stronger than most people, and regardless of what many may say, more wish they had the genetics and drive to look anything like that. Girls pay attention as well. This weekend, at a gas station, this woman walks up to me (obviously just fresh from the club) and says, “How much can you bench?”…“You look nice now but don’t get any bigger. Those really big bodybuilder guys look funny”. Mind you, women were pretty much saying the same thing years ago when I was only about 200lbs. The worst part about being bigger is simply standing out even when you don’t want to. You can give up “blending in” when most of your clothes qualify as “big and tall”.[/quote]
I order from Kingsize.
I’ve been working out steadily for nearly a year now. I am 6ft 215, and I don’t consider myself “big.” But because I have gotten appreciably bigger over the past year, people always joke and say “hey are you on steroids?” It gets pretty annoying after a while.
Motherfuckers at work always wanting you to help them lift shit. “Oh come on it’ll give you some exercise.” Guess what motherfucker, as you can see I’m gettin plenty and I’ve already worked out today so I’m trying to fucking recover.
[quote]tora no’ shi wrote:
going to the movies to see something that’s for sure gonna be crowded(x-man 3) and trying to find a way to make my shoulders fit between two people while beign jammed in those tiny seats for two freaking hours straight…i still don’t know how i did it:)[/quote]
What’s really cool is when people take a look at you, take a look at the empty seat next to you…and look elsewhere for a place to sit.
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Every guy within a 3 block radius trying to eye me down and wanting to prove “He isn’t so tough” even though I’m a very easy going guy.
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The constant remarks about my lifestyle of training, eating, and sleeping.
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The onslaught of training and diet question which I’m always more than happy to answer but I’m always asked at the worst possible times.
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People thinking that I lack intelligence because I’m big.
But the positives by far outweight the negatives and most will never understand why.
monthly grocery bill $$$$$…
H-O-L-Y-S-H-I-T!
yeah the moving up to another size in your wardrobe!
I am not at all “big” yet, but just having to buy new clothes when the old ones were still fine, ie;not torn or anything… oh well, garage sale time!
[quote]E-man wrote:
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Every guy within a 3 block radius trying to eye me down and wanting to prove “He isn’t so tough” even though I’m a very easy going guy.
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The constant remarks about my lifestyle of training, eating, and sleeping.
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The onslaught of training and diet question which I’m always more than happy to answer but I’m always asked at the worst possible times.
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People thinking that I lack intelligence because I’m big.
But the positives by far outweight the negatives and most will never understand why.[/quote]
Tack me in for all of those as well. I particularly get sick of people eating doughnuts telling me they don’t want to be miserable worrying about what they can an can’t eat. Guess what Fatass? I’m as far from miserable as you can get, and I CAN eat whatever I want, I just DON’T.
Right now, I’d say the HEAT! It was 88 deg F here today (92 with the heat index), and I haven’t yet adapted to summer weather. I refuse to turn on the AC, because it uses too much money and fux the planet. When I was 50 lbs. lighter, before getting into bodybuilding, this was much more bearable.
On the plus side, winter ain’t so bad anymore.
BTW, I’ve got the clothes thing licked. Working for Goodwill, I get 20 free items of clothing per a year. 
Though, it’s still a pain to find something nice.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
gojira wrote:
3…I hate shopping.
I agree; clothes shopping is the worst thing about having any size. It is so damn hard for me to buy pants. If they fit around my thighs and ass, they are 4 sizes too big on my waist. If they fit my waist, I can’t pull them all the way up my legs. Also, I’m 5’6" so everything is too long. It’s real hard to find a pair that is 36 inch waist, 29 inch inseam, and loose in the thighs.[/quote]
Yeah the annoying thing with pants is they are starting to go to that tiny girl sized jeans for Mick Jagger. How can I fit into that?? My suggestion for dress pants, pleaded. That’s the money and I cannot fit into anything else.
Outside of the annoying, “are you taking steriods?” or “can you help me move heavy stuff?”, the one thing that upsets me is shirt sizes. Not what everybody has been saying about not finding but actually finding shirts (and jackets) that fit arms and through the shoulders. Having to get such big sizes they hang off of you like a tarp. Makes me look like I got this enormous gut. While not the skinniest, I aint fat Albert either. My stomach never presses up against these drop cloth sized shirts and it drives me mad.
I was in Tokyo for the weekend and it was cooler than I expected, so I looked for a casual jacket to buy.
Three hours later, still hadn’t found a jacket big enough, frustrated and tired…aaagggghhh!!!
Not being functional.
I’m not huge but I live in China so I’m plenty more muscular than 99.99999999% of the population. People look at me and on occasion strangers will come up and feel my arms (one guy in the shower lifted my balls and gave me the thumbs up, I didn’t hammer him out because I understand it’s some sort of strange cultural difference and not homosexual tendencies).
During the winter when I was up to about 215 pounds I was often told I was fat, even though I was probably about 14% body fat (not ripped but not real fat) to the Chinese even large pecs or big arms are simply fat. The most muscley Chinese guys at the gym weigh in at 170 pounds and have 5% body fat.
Also Chinese girls don’t like the large size. Most of my girlfriends tell me I looked better at 170 pounds as opposed to 200 (where in the west it would be the opposite).
The last thing is that since I’m so much bigger than everyone here even if someone starts shit with me I can’t rightly beat the hell out of him. It just wouldn’t be fair.
[quote]The Dmachine wrote:
“one guy in the shower lifted my balls and gave me the thumbs up”[/quote]
Exactly where did he give you the thumbs up?
There is no worst part about being strong and big.
It’s all good.
It’s being puny and weak where I can see a whole shitload of “worst part” happening.
Id say its alot a better to be noticed for being a bad ass then the worst part about being a puny weak skinny guy who has to get the strong guy down the hall to replace the water cooler jug…