Your Physique isn't Impressive, STFU

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First of all OP, you take yourself way too seriously!!

Do yourself a favour and thank the members of T-Nation for providing you with some perspective! I think most of the people who have commented believe that you need a reality check.

I have an idea for you, why don’t you try ordering a Special Olympics shirt for yourself, and make sure it says ‘PoweerLifteer’ on the back…I bet people wouldn’t think twice about stealing YOUR bench or YOUR squat rack. And the best part about the shirt is that when they do try and talk to you,you get to tell them with a dumb grin on your face that you won Gold with that lift!!

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[quote]Regular Gonzalez wrote:
DanErickson wrote:
So you are strong enough to do arm curls with 60 lbs and you were trying to learn good form from a book. Please take your comments and posts to www.bodybuilding.com; they will be better suited there.

Your point makes no sense.

Why exactly would being strong enough to curl 60lb mean that you should automatically know correct form for an exercise that you have never tried before?

It makes perfect sense to read up about an exercise before trying it for the first time.

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It also lends substance to the opinion that this guy is clueless and actually NEEDS some of the instruction he is being given. The fact that he even turned down the advice of a guy who he claims looked like a football player (which I assume means he was carrying way more muscle mass than himself) makes him a complete idiot. If anyone bigger than me tried to give me advice, I would listen even if I didn’t follow it afterwards. I would assume I could learn SOMETHING from them, not that they were hindering my progress.

I don’t see how anyone is standing up for his actions. This makes no sense.

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The OP hardly claimed that the guy looked like a football player. The direct quote is one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”??.

The OP also claims that the guy condescendingly said to him “are you sure you know how to squat” before he had even started his first set (I will admit that the OP is probably lying about this). If this were true though he would be well within his rights to tell the guy to fuck off.

I am not really defending the OP as he does kind of sound like a bit of an ignorant douchebag. It’s just that I can kind of understand where his frustration is coming from. At the commercial gym that I go to the only people that I ever see dishing out uninvited advice are those who really have no business to be giving lifting advice to anyone. All of the biggest guys at my gym tend to be far too busy actually lifting weights to even pay attention to what everyone else is doing.

Here is a summary of all of the uninvited training advice that I have been given at the gym:

“Don’t squat so deep its bad for your knees”. This was said to me by a fat old guy who seemingly only goes to the gym for social interaction and rarely ever actually lifts any weights.

“If you are lifting a weight so heavy that you can’t even get 8 reps your only ego lifting”. Again this was said to me by a fat guy who doesn’t even look like he trains and is somehow much weaker many untrained people despite the fact that he claims to have been training for the last ten years.

The fact is if someone wants training advice it is their own responsibility to ask for it. I think the problem that many people who view themselves as experts on correct form and such have with this concept is that no rational person is actually going to go looking for advice from someone who hasn’t even achieved anything worthwhile in the gym. Many seem to compensate for their own lack of achievement by attempting to force their crappy advice on others.

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[quote]Regular Gonzalez wrote:
The OP hardly claimed that the guy looked like a football player. The direct quote is one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”??.
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What you just wrote is so retarded it cancels out everything else you wrote.

Gee, ok, he said the guy looked like he used to play football. How does that change anything? That usually means he is carrying more muscle mass. If the guy was obese, why the analogy to football? You think you can’t learn something about how to lift from “ex-football players”?

Most beginners, judging by some of these ignorant threads, think any big bodybuilder over 10% body fat is “fat”. I wouldn’t credit most beginners today with knowing much of anything about bodybuilding.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regular Gonzalez wrote:
The OP hardly claimed that the guy looked like a football player. The direct quote is one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”??.

What you just wrote is so retarded it cancels out everything else you wrote.

Gee, ok, he said the guy looked like he used to play football. How does that change anything? That usually means he is carrying more muscle mass. If the guy was obese, why the analogy to football? You think you can’t learn something about how to lift from “ex-football players”?

Most beginners, judging by some of these ignorant threads, think any big bodybuilder over 10% body fat is “fat”. I wouldn’t credit most beginners today with knowing much of anything about bodybuilding.
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Just as you certainly can learn how to lift from some ex-football players, you can also learn how some ex-football players are dumbasses who are caught up in the glory days of their past while not necessarily knowing a damn thing about how to lift.

I don’t understand why its so inconceivable that these were simply annoying people, devoid of redeeming qualities, who were pestering the OP. THESE PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE IN GYMS. I don’t know, weightlifting attracts them. Everyone is assuming the OP was doing this or that incorrectly, and these people were trying to help. However, based on WHAT WAS WRITTEN, it seems that these people interrupted his training to talk down to him. Sure, there is probably some hyperbole here, but again, based on what the OP wrote, I don’t see how everyone is condemning him so harshly.

Sure, if ex-football homeboy was well developed muscularly, and actually knew what he was talking about, and the OP was completely unwilling to listen, then yeah, he’s a douche. However, even under those circumstances, if the dude approached the OP as a pretentious know it all especially in front of his “cronies”, it would be a valid complaint.

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i gotta give him him credit for at least trying to improve form with the book. the whole topic seems to be about him needing to improve this or that and it seems thats what he was trying to do. anything else about how this guy lifts is merely speculation. theres just as good a chance theres a bunch of assholes at his gym as there is that hes a terrible lifter.

hes moved to his school gym anyway so i guess if we see a thread a month from now called “broke my wrist squatting” well know that he had bad form afterall.

as for now im inclined to believe theres a ton of douchebags being douchebags. i mean how many people on this site give out advice that they shouldnt give? you think that only happens on the internet or something? lol

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regular Gonzalez wrote:
The OP hardly claimed that the guy looked like a football player. The direct quote is one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”??.

What you just wrote is so retarded it cancels out everything else you wrote.

Gee, ok, he said the guy looked like he used to play football. How does that change anything? That usually means he is carrying more muscle mass. If the guy was obese, why the analogy to football? You think you can’t learn something about how to lift from “ex-football players”?

Most beginners, judging by some of these ignorant threads, think any big bodybuilder over 10% body fat is “fat”. I wouldn’t credit most beginners today with knowing much of anything about bodybuilding.
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When I read the quote " used to play football types" I immediately pictured Ted Bundy in my head.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i mean how many people on this site give out advice that they shouldnt give? you think that only happens on the internet or something? lol[/quote]

There’s actually a thread on that somewhere around here…

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i ama boxer and for a while there was a punching bag at the gym. i would hit it after my workout for fun.

there was always some fag trying to teach me how to do those gay kicks they do in the ufc. one even said i should start every fight with a high kick to the head. or one guy tried to teach me his “knockout punch” little do these guys know i have actually been in the ring and am more skilled than they could ever hope to be.

they think they can talk and talk and eventually i will learn how badass they are and respect them. little do they know, even if they really can fight, i dont give a shit and i will still beat their ass.

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i ama boxer and for a while there was a punching bag at the gym. i would hit it after my workout for fun.

there was always some fag trying to teach me how to do those gay kicks they do in the ufc. one even said i should start every fight with a high kick to the head. or one guy tried to teach me his “knockout punch” little do these guys know i have actually been in the ring and am more skilled than they could ever hope to be.

they think they can talk and talk and eventually i will learn how badass they are and respect them. little do they know, even if they really can fight, i dont give a shit and i will still beat their ass.

are GSP’s kicks gay?

what’s your boxing record? and what weight class are you in?

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I be curling 20lbs and reading da forums!!!

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Yet another thread that makes me glad I train at home regardless of what actually happened.

Even assuming the truly unsolicited, unnecessary and irritating nature of these people I don’t know why it’s a requirement to respond like an uncivilized juvenile delinquent. It’s not cool. It’s idiotic.

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This thread’s original post is a joke.
This guy’s saying that he went to a cable curl machine to work on his curl form? That should be a red flag.

As a rule of thumb, if someone tells you that you’re using too much weight or that your technique is off or something, then you’re clearly not jacked enough.

Even if there is a false-informed know-it-all who goes around the gym preaching the dangers of deadlifts, do you really think he’s gonna have the balls to talk to you if you’re pulling 500 for reps and he’s Dumbbell Squats with 50lb dumbbells? If you’ve got 19’ Arms and you’re cheat curling the 75lb dumbbells, do you think anyone is gonna correct your form? No! Because:

  1. They can see what you do obviously works for you.
  2. They’re scared of you.
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whoa whoa whoa guys, we are overanalyzing this far too much.

all that we know is that the OP likely rips stop signs out of the ground on a daily basis

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Regular Gonzalez wrote:
The OP hardly claimed that the guy looked like a football player. The direct quote is one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”??.

What you just wrote is so retarded it cancels out everything else you wrote.

Gee, ok, he said the guy looked like he used to play football. How does that change anything? That usually means he is carrying more muscle mass. If the guy was obese, why the analogy to football? You think you can’t learn something about how to lift from “ex-football players”?

Most beginners, judging by some of these ignorant threads, think any big bodybuilder over 10% body fat is “fat”. I wouldn’t credit most beginners today with knowing much of anything about bodybuilding.
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If I was describing someone who looks like a football player there is no way I would use the phrase 'one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”.

I would use that phrase to describe a fat guy with an unimpressive physique who won’t shut the fuck up about how he used to play football.

There are a number of people at my gym that could easily be described as “I used to be a powerlifter” types. This is not because these people are carrying a large amount of muscle. Again it relates more to the fact that they never shut the fuck up about it.

If I was describing someone who looked like a football player I would say something more along the lines of “this guy who looks like a football player”.

Your lack of comprehension of the OP’s use of language makes me think that you are probably some middle aged guy who has very little direct contact with young people.

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[quote]GetSwole wrote:
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What the fuck!

My profile is set to private.

How the hell did you get that photo of me

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[quote]Regular Gonzalez wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Regular Gonzalez wrote:
The OP hardly claimed that the guy looked like a football player. The direct quote is one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”??.

What you just wrote is so retarded it cancels out everything else you wrote.

Gee, ok, he said the guy looked like he used to play football. How does that change anything? That usually means he is carrying more muscle mass. If the guy was obese, why the analogy to football? You think you can’t learn something about how to lift from “ex-football players”?

Most beginners, judging by some of these ignorant threads, think any big bodybuilder over 10% body fat is “fat”. I wouldn’t credit most beginners today with knowing much of anything about bodybuilding.

If I was describing someone who looks like a football player there is no way I would use the phrase 'one of those like fat ass “I USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL TYPES”.

I would use that phrase to describe a fat guy with an unimpressive physique who won’t shut the fuck up about how he used to play football.

There are a number of people at my gym that could easily be described as “I used to be a powerlifter” types. This is not because these people are carrying a large amount of muscle. Again it relates more to the fact that they never shut the fuck up about it.

If I was describing someone who looked like a football player I would say something more along the lines of “this guy who looks like a football player”.

Your lack of comprehension of the OP’s use of language makes me think that you are probably some middle aged guy who has very little direct contact with young people.
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I’m not middle aged and I have everyday contact with young people. Wake up. It is you not making any sense, jackass.

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[quote]Regular Gonzalez wrote:
GetSwole wrote:
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What the fuck!

My profile is set to private.

How the hell did you get that photo of me[/quote]

it’s just how I pictured you.

This is why I am a friend of Miss Cleo

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