Whats the most ignorant thing someone has said to you about exercise,weights etc

[Wingchunwarrior]

I gotta the idea from the ignorant music thread as you all probably know.

Anyway I'll start it off.

A guy in my gym once said to me he only wanted to do cardio because weightlifting stunts your growth(he's 18)

[kung_fu]

Originally Posted by Wingchunwarrior

A guy in my gym once said to me he only wanted to do cardio because weightlifting stunts your growth(he's 18)

I don't have anything to add atm but i've heard this before as well. I guess also hearing people with zero exercis/weightlifting experience who are worried about getting too bulky. It's not like putting a gym membership card under your pillow will magically get you a visit from the muscle fairy. This stuff takes time people. Baby steps.

[xiphoscesar]

some fat guy who doesn't use good form was telling me to use good form on a bicep curl

he thought i was doing it wrong, but i was doing the twisting bicep curls that also work your forearm

[BigPhi84]

"Do crunches to get a flat stomach"

"Fat can be targeted by doing muscle-specific exercises"

"All the big dudes in this gym use steroids"

"Creatine will give you cramps"

[Uncle Remus]

"Cardio is the best way to lose weight"

[Wingchunwarrior]

Originally Posted by BigPhi84

"Creatine will give you cramps"

Taking Creatine at the moment better not do any swimming after I take it

[Harry]

Originally Posted by BigPhi84

"Do crunches to get a flat stomach"

"Fat can be targeted by doing muscle-specific exercises"

"All the big dudes in this gym use steroids"

"Creatine will give you cramps"

Oh god, those first two ones especially.
It's unbelievable how many people believe that shit still.
I try to explain to some people it's about overall body fat, but they just don't get it

[GuitaristOfHell]

Some dude told me running 9 miles straight is bad for me lol. It's not that bad when you get used to it

[BigPhi84]

Originally Posted by Harry

Oh god, those first two ones especially.
It's unbelievable how many people believe that shit still.
I try to explain to some people it's about overall body fat, but they just don't get it

Yeah, remember the Ab Rockers/Rollers of the late '90s? I wonder how many people bought into the hype.








Another one I hear all the time is, "You need to warm-up and cool down with cardio if you're lifting weights."


Here's a really controversial one!!! Ready? Are you sure? OK. "Stretching prevents injury." Recent scientific studies have proven that stretching does not prevent injury and, in fact, can even lead to injury, due to the fact that stretching leads to loss of muscle strength, which in turn leads to muscle instability when lifting heavy weights! Told ya it was gonna be controversial.


I used to really be into lifting weights. I read the "Muscular Development" magazine every month for years. That magazine was great because in every issue, it reported on scientific studies, many which disproved the various "wives tales" of the gym.

[Uncle Remus]

That would be static stretching though yeah. Dynamic stretching is best for before exercise. Static stretches should be left until after exercise Are you listening P.E. teachers?

[Wingchunwarrior]

Or the most famous of them all,the "doing higher reps and lighter weights gets you toned"
What the .... do personal trainers get paid for seriously, stop talking bullshit and do some research

[bjjman]

"You're much bigger/stronger than I am, you must be on the juice." No, I've just been doing this for a long time and I train hard.

[Jason]

"I dont wanna take protein cause I want to lose weight and not get bulky"

"Im not lifting right now cause I wanna lose weight"

"I need to convert my bodyfat into muscle"

"I dont wanna get huge or anything"

"If I wanted to get big I could just get on juice"

[Origin]

Anything concerning a 'Detox' or 'Cleanse.' The fact that people call those bullshit fads by such ambiguous, retarded names should be your first warning light. Then the fact that you're not EATING

[Explorer]

Any advice which ignores that the only way to get in shape and to lose body fat is to

EAT LESS THAN YOU ARE GODDAMN BURNING!

That's pretty much the one that kills me, and sums up the truth of what almost every ignorant person expresses about weight loss and getting in shape.

All kinds of well meaning people tell me, you should do aerobic work at 60% of your total heartrate, because that's most efficient. .... that! I want to burn energy inefficiently! I know that I'll burn MORE TOTAL FAT at 70% than I will at 60%, BECAUSE IT'S INEFFICIENT!

Yes, I'm aware that you feel I should do a different program, and that my holding small weights while constantly being in motion while watching a movie doesn't fit your idea of a good workout. It's not, and it's not my workout. It does burn calories, though, in the same way that you don't see chunky field laborers. CONSTANT WORK BURNS CALORIES, AND BUILDS ENDURANCE BESIDES.

Lastly, and most importantly... IF YOU'RE FAT AND WANT TO GIVE ME ADVICE ON HOW TO WORK OUT BETTER, THEN I WELCOME YOU TO SHUT YOUR FAT F***IN' MOUTH. Your actions speak louder than your words, and if your main form of exercise is hoisting calories to your mouth, then, really, what possible credence can your words hold? THE REAL TRUTH STANDS SO NAKEDLY IN YOUR STRAINED-TO-BURSTING FAT CELLS THAT THE MOST PURBLINDED EYE CAN PERCEIVE IT.

As Miyamoto Musashi noted, it's easy to dream up a fighting philosophy; what counts is who leaves the battlefield alive. I promise your pudgy ass will be in the middle of that lifeless battlefield, your melted and pooled body fat wicking through the tatters of your remaining rags and burning for more than an entire *month* to provide a ghastly light for all those who come at night to pick over the bodies of the defeated for anything worth selling.

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Okay, clearly, I find a few things irritating. *laugh* Look, I can pick up your little girlfriend in my arms and run flat out for a few blocks, I know you'll look bad. Don't talk, and I won't have to put you in your place.

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As my old teacher Sifu Bakari used to say, there are two "R"s, reasons and results. Which one counts?

Thank you, Sifu, and all my other martial arts teachers, for teaching me to abandon the "R" which doesn't count.

[Breakdown]

"you can eat anything you want on a diet just don't eat too much".

isn't the goal of dieting to get rid of bad eating habits. letting people eat what they want is just going to make them crave it a lot more, even in little portions (im speaking from experience). its like telling a smoker trying to quit to only smoke 1 cigarette and we all know he wont be able to stop at just one (unless he/she has very strong will power)

[Wingchunwarrior]

Got some new ones:

"I don't take protein powder cos I wanna be natural"

"I don't wanna take protein cos it makes you dick shrink"

"Yeah that guy is pretty big but I bet he takes steroids and thats easy and cheating, plus it makes your dick shrink"

"nah I'll just do crunches and cardio, I don't wanna get too big"

"that guy from Never Back Down is Hench blud"

[Explorer]

Anyone who's worried about something shrinking obviously doesn't have any to spare.

*laugh*

Look... most people aren't going to be getting too big unless it's because they're shape... meaning spherical.

[Guitarmiester]

I've only received stupid comments from old and overweight people regarding my own routines.

1. I run 5-8 miles 3-4 times a week and often bring my dog. Last week I was stopped by an old lady and her two little yappy dogs. Once I turned my iPod off, I realized she was yelling at me. She thought it was horrible that I take my dog running and wanted to report it... all while her two yappy dogs were taking a shit on someone's front lawn.

2. One of my gf's relatives doesn't like me because I'm not a scientist or didn't go to med school (apparently a business and accounting/finance degrees aren't up to standard.) As another lame attempt to find fault with me, she recently questioned my daily runs by asking, "So, you just woke up one day and decided you wanted to run 8 miles?"

[FretWizard88]

Originally Posted by Guitarmiester

I've only received stupid comments from old and overweight people regarding my own routines.

1. I run 5-8 miles 3-4 times a week and often bring my dog. Last week I was stopped by an old lady and her two little yappy dogs. Once I turned my iPod off, I realized she was yelling at me. She thought it was horrible that I take my dog running and wanted to report it... all while her two yappy dogs were taking a shit on someone's front lawn.

2. One of my gf's relatives doesn't like me because I'm not a scientist or didn't go to med school (apparently a business and accounting/finance degrees aren't up to standard.) As another lame attempt to find fault with me, she recently questioned my daily runs by asking, "So, you just woke up one day and decided you wanted to run 8 miles?"

Sounds like some of the members of her family are pretentious pricks.

[Anthony]

Squats are bad for your knees.

[Stealthdjentstic]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Squats are bad for your knees.

They are if you don't know what you're doing or sometimes even if you do.

[Explorer]

I like the idea that someone might just jump into running eight miles a day. I doubt their fat asses could make it a quarter mile before they gave up and shoved a Twinkie in their mouth in order to "carboload" and to make up for any calories they accidentally burned.

Anyway, the idea that some idiot would have no idea of what is possible with sustained effort, or that something would *take* sustained effort to achieve, would have me having a talk with my girlfriend. "Look, I don't mind you not wanting to say something, but I'm going to. If someone wants to talk negatively about my being in shape at my age, I'm going to start pulling in the facts about how lack of exercise will lead to my being in even worse shape by the time I arrive at their age. 'Why, any doctor worth his or her salt would agree that good cardiopulmonary workouts, sensibly undertaken, will make someone healthier in the long run. Wouldn't you agree, Uncle doctor guy?" Basically, make her argument be with someone she's already related to, so that if she continues to just argue with fact, it won't be your fight... and if she continues to try to find negative things about you, you can be direct and call her on it. Either way, be a gentleman, but be direct, so she can't complain about how you point out her rudeness.

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As to the woman whose dogs were shitting on a neighbor's lawn, I'd definitely be waiting for her to pick it up. If she didn't, I'd ask her to call the cops for her own sake. *laugh*

Oh my god, that reminds me... at some point, there was some woman who would always have her dogs shit on my lawn, and would never pick it up, even after I caught her a few times. I finally started picking it up, and dumping it all on her front steps and on the ground around her car door. I think once she called the cops and said I was having my dog vent there, but when they looked at the size of my dog (mixed Akita, pretty tall at the shoulder) and the size of the tiny stuff that was being left, they figured it wasn't me....

[Guitarmiester]

Originally Posted by FretWizard88

Sounds like some of the members of her family are pretentious pricks.

Some of them are just because they hold high positions at several of the leading companies in their industry. It's really only the one relative that seems to have a problem with me.

Originally Posted by Explorer

I like the idea that someone might just jump into running eight miles a day. I doubt their fat asses could make it a quarter mile before they gave up and shoved a Twinkie in their mouth in order to "carboload" and to make up for any calories they accidentally burned.

Anyway, the idea that some idiot would have no idea of what is possible with sustained effort, or that something would *take* sustained effort to achieve, would have me having a talk with my girlfriend. "Look, I don't mind you not wanting to say something, but I'm going to. If someone wants to talk negatively about my being in shape at my age, I'm going to start pulling in the facts about how lack of exercise will lead to my being in even worse shape by the time I arrive at their age. 'Why, any doctor worth his or her salt would agree that good cardiopulmonary workouts, sensibly undertaken, will make someone healthier in the long run. Wouldn't you agree, Uncle doctor guy?" Basically, make her argument be with someone she's already related to, so that if she continues to just argue with fact, it won't be your fight... and if she continues to try to find negative things about you, you can be direct and call her on it. Either way, be a gentleman, but be direct, so she can't complain about how you point out her rudeness.

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As to the woman whose dogs were shitting on a neighbor's lawn, I'd definitely be waiting for her to pick it up. If she didn't, I'd ask her to call the cops for her own sake. *laugh*

Oh my god, that reminds me... at some point, there was some woman who would always have her dogs shit on my lawn, and would never pick it up, even after I caught her a few times. I finally started picking it up, and dumping it all on her front steps and on the ground around her car door. I think once she called the cops and said I was having my dog vent there, but when they looked at the size of my dog (mixed Akita, pretty tall at the shoulder) and the size of the tiny stuff that was being left, they figured it wasn't me....

She only threw the waking up and running 8 miles comment at me because she will never be able to come close to lasting even a quarter of a mile and probably never has in her life. I'm never a dick when responding to her, at least not yet lol. I told her I obviously had to work up to the 8 miles, especially for someone who used to have slight issues with asthma. I don't think anyone can really wake up and run 8 miles, regardless of how athletic and active they were when they were younger.

The comments are never anything that bad, just stupid little things that get to be annoying. Like my younger brother is a big partier and somewhat of a slob. When she found that out she came up to me and said something along the lines of, "So, you're a slob, too? If you are, it'll eventually show." After that ignorant comment, I decided to walk away and leave everything to a hi/bye situation. If someone wants to be like that, they can be like that on their own instead of trying to drag someone else down with them.

Lol if I knew where the lady with the dogs lived, I'd pull the old dog shit in a paper bag trick. I wouldn't light it on fire, that'd allow her to actually pick up the bag and look inside. I like the surrounding the car idea lol. Nothing worse than getting in your car, turning on the heat, and smelling shit for the next week or so.

I couldn't believe that the lady thought it was such a terrible thing to take a dog running. On several occasions, the vet went on about how good it is for the dog, especially since he has more energy than should even be allowed. I could see stopping someone if the dog was dragging ass, but for a dog to look as if it's dragging me even by the time I get home?

[Anton]

"Im not fat, Im a powerlifter"
"I don't wanna get huge, so i don't drink protein shakes"
"Why are you deadliting so much? you know it's gonna kill your back"
"Im not eating after 17:00"
"Im not gonna lift for the first year of gym training since it's not healthy, just chinups and pushups for me...I want to prevent injury"

This is why I love Muay Thai, whenever someone says something retarded in training i have the full right to punch him in the face.