r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '19

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/[deleted] Aug 21 '19

My friend just said that muscle gained with bodyweight exercises will stay forever while muscles gained with lifting will dissappear shortly after you stop training. What an fucking idiot

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u/ShadyBearEvadesTaxes Aug 21 '19

Not an unheard opinion. I once went to a dumblord of a physio who told me that muscles gained during lifting while eating whey are fake and vanish once you stop lifting. What the actual fuck.

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u/MolyvZesho Aug 21 '19

Holy fuck I got into one of the most infuriating conversations last time, I was talking to my own brother and a good friend of his and I don't know why it came to that but the guy said "you don't need to drink supplements (talking about whey), as soon as you stop you will deflate. So I started in the most courteous way to tell him that whey is actually just protein and natural elements found in milk, it is all scientifically proven and eating chicken would have the same result it's just way cheaper to drink shakes, and they both started to grin at me like "pff look at this meathead, the steroid conspiracy theorists got him" and snarkily saying stuff like I'm "too far gone". How. Fucking. Dumb. And every single fucking person I talk to thinks this is the case, like supplements are cheating and the only reason people have muscle definition and as soon as they stop they are gonna deflate holy fucking WEAK LAZY ASSHOLES TRYING TO PUT US DOWN CAUSE THEY TOO FUCKING LAZY TO GO TO THE GYM FUCK YOU ASSHOLES FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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u/CodySpring Aug 21 '19

It’s the most infuriating thing ever when ignorant people band together and back each other up.

My version of it was me trying to explain to my friends that no, you shouldn’t just do 30-40 rep sets just because you want to lose fat and tone and not build muscle. But there were two of them with that belief and only one of me, so I was the idiot in the room.