Quote (Patches @ Jul 16 2014 04:00pm)
either you're exaggerating or his friends/gym is/are extremely retarded, i never saw someone laugh at me when i dropped weights on on one side or did twice the roll of shame while benching or when i had to use the safety bars because i failed my squats twice. anyway who the fuck cares. you have to give people permission to hurt your feelings, you are in control of your own thoughts.
why is it hard to balance?
when i started working out i hooked up with a PT and i had problems balancing the dumbells and had problems chest pressing even 45 lbs with dumbells, but after a few weeks i built those up and i could lift higher weights that i could outside of the gym environment - being a big guy and lifting shit that a guy 1/3rd of your size is rough
being fit (i'd classify you as fit) and doing roll of shames etc is a whole different thing than if you're overweight and do it. overweight people doing stuff is always "funnier" than when fit people do it - the fit person who did it know what they're doing and just tried a rep too much, the "fat" people should just stop working out anyway and learn how to do it before they try too much
i've hung around with both skinny and overweight people, and the skinny people always hate on overweight people, laughing at them wehn they exercise, when they run trying to catch a bus.
there's always great people around you that will help you at the gym, but being afraid of the one around you that's not is what causes most people to avoid gyms. the phobia and hatred against overweight people is similiar to xenophobia, chauvinism and other phobias towards people - the one that's the "miniority" or however you put it, will always see themselves as a victim and think the worst of peoples intentions and what people think about
Quote (Patches @ Jul 16 2014 04:14pm)
i hear ya i was the same in HS but we all learn to dgaf and the more people get old, less of a fuck they give too
you're currently saying that overweight people have the same starting point as normal weight people here
This post was edited by dej on Jul 16 2014 09:20am