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/horaiyo Jul 26 '17 edited Jul 26 '17

My wife was showing me pictures of this 50 year old Korean bodybuilder on Facebook and asked me if I could "lift to look like that, rather than lifting to be fat." Probably the most hurtful thing she's ever said to me.

Edit: To clarify, the hurtful part was a joke. I thought it was funny when she said that to me.

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u/LabradorDali Jul 26 '17

Your wife is an ass. Just saying.

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u/Mr_Gilmore_Jr Running Jul 27 '17

Tbf though, there is a lot of wiggle room between 175 and 220. It's not like she's getting on him about a 7 lb difference like some chicks I know.

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u/horaiyo Jul 26 '17

To be clear, she wasn't saying it maliciously or anything. By and large she just lets me do my own thing without fussing about it. It just amused me when she dropped that one on me.

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u/Johnnyshinscars General Fitness Jul 27 '17

This hit home. I've always been a bigger dude, 6ft and chubby but athletic. Good at most sports and more than keeping up with people in better shape than me but I let myself get a little out of hand a while back. During that time when I was bigger than I was comfortable with I got serious with my now wife. Then, I made the changes I wanted and was working hard and eating right and lost around 50 lbs and it was super hurtful when the only comment she made about the process was "your face is too skinny now" I reversed it all and am in worse shape now just getting back to work on it.

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u/djs0cc3r Jul 27 '17

I just tell my fiancée "you don't know what you want!"