It boils down to this in my experience.
In a relationship, you tend to view each other as equals.
In a student/teacher dynamic, there is clearly a superior and an inferior person.
Trying to balance those two tends to be impossible. I only train my wife if she asks me to, and even then, most of what I offer is phrased as suggestions rather than advice.
Women are like cats. You just need to let them think what you want them to do was their idea in the first place.
That’s all I have to say about that.
I’d definitely lean towards letting it slide then. Understand, appreciate, and praise the iron gods that have a girl that lifts at all. You’re still in the minority on that, so it’s a win right off the bat.
FWIW, another type of routine I rotate in sometimes is density work like Staley’s EDT where the sets, reps, and even the weight don’t specifically matter as long as more “stuff” gets done each session. Just another idea to maybe float by her.
Nope! The Rock can’t even make me listen to Taylor Swift. I tried, just can’t do it.
@Yogi1 you let another man write your girlfriend’s training program? So Beta…
oh snap!
But I pay for things REALLY slowly in shops so I think it all balances out.
(and for the record it was one of those generic fitness instagram chicks who wrote the program)
you think everything is like cats
I suppose that’s acceptable…
whatever happened to that guy? Does he still post?
There have been so many alpha/beta threads I’ve lost count of who says that dumb shit anymore, lol.
I’m just glad I never had to fight Ronda Rousy…
haha, I was referring to that thread where sexmachine was talking about how high status people take ages to pay for things in queues in shops.
The alpha/beta thing is hilarious. If you label yourself as alpha, you’re probably not; if you think you’re beta, you are; meanwhile the rest of us normal people just go about our day without thinking about it.
cool, man. I’ll check her out
Lol, oh ya, that’s right. It was SexMachine wasn’t it. I haven’t seen his posts in a while. I just remember posting about paying for groceries with treasury bonds or something since I’m so Alpha.
He was an interesting character for sure.
No, just women and millennial men.
Oh come on…
The younger ones lol!
lol, wait a minute, how old are you?
I’m 30. Too old to do dumb shit and too young to get any respect.
yeah I’m 31. No matter how you look at it, when you hit our age you are DEFINITELY an adult and should really have your shit together. Which I don’t.
edit: and I think I’d rather fight Ronda than Gabi Garcia!
