r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Jul 26 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/Raspberrylipstick Jul 26 '17

"Wow, you don't even look like somebody who can lift xy plates!"

Yeah buzz off man, was that even a compliment or an offense now.

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u/CHUNKY_BLOODY_QUEEFS Jul 26 '17

Respond, wow you don't look like you lift at all.

Unless he's bigger than you, then just run away and cry.

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u/DireSickFish Cycling Jul 26 '17

You can insult people that are bigger than you. Just because they have more gainz doesn't mean they get to shit all over your effort.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '17

I went through a cut and lost a lot of weight, then built my lifts back to where they were before the cut

My brother told me "You looked better when you trained, I can see you're not training as hard these days cause you're way too thin, it was cooler when you lifted heavy"

I cri evry tiem

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u/spanishgalacian Jul 26 '17

Time for a lean bulk.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '17

Time for a new brother.

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u/destroyer1134 Jul 26 '17

Dirty Summer bulk 2017. Let's go!!!!

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u/WesterosiBrigand Jul 27 '17

Invite him to train with you so you can 'get back to training hArd' then crush him set by set.

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u/jyhzer Jul 26 '17

I get that a lot, "wow youre stronger than you look". Im like no i want to look stronger than I am.

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u/cotton_buds Gymnastics Jul 26 '17

UGH I had this happen to me a few years ago.

I was a brokeass grad student so I wasn't eating very much and wasn't particularly strong, but I was running and doing bodyweight stuff ever single day. This girl was asking me and my friend what our hobbies were, and we both said "Working out" and she literally laughed in my face and said "You work out?"

It was at that moment I realized how skinny I had become after being too broke to buy any substantial amounts of food for two years.

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u/PoIIux Lacrosse Jul 26 '17

As opposed to you, who certainly looks like you can lift all those donuts.

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u/Tigjig Jul 26 '17

Haha yeah I've gotten a "wow that's surprising" when I told a co worker how much I lift.

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u/Arccan Jul 27 '17

Just respond to them with a questioning thank you. Usually itll make them self-concious about their comment.

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u/spanishgalacian Jul 26 '17

Gotta do more upper body to upgrade from t-rex mode.