omigawwwwwwd i hate squats

JustinAnimal

jessef593 wrote: »

Good chance you're doing them wrong if they're causing that much displeasure.

Agree with this. I find squats to be some of the most pleasurable exercises I do and, since I don't have a gym to go to, I actually miss being able to do back squats. I miss those days when I used to gradually add on weight, because my goal was two 45-pound plates on each side, just because it looks so cool. Think of the benefits! My butt actually looks better, even when I've got a good bit of fat going! The burn you get all day long from seriously working your largest muscle groups!

You've got to learn to love squats. Those, dead-lifts, lunges, step-ups, these are the best for overall fitness and lifetime fitness, at least in my opinion.

JustinAnimal

Willbenchforcupcakes wrote: »

julierockhead wrote: »

How is OP being offensive? Criminy, can't people even complain creatively anymore without the PC police finding out? If you are humor impaired, I feel for you, but please allow the rest of us to laugh a bit.

I *kitten* HATE squats. But they are giving me thigh definition and lifting my sagging middle aged *kitten* right up, so I do them.

How is the op being offensive? Hmm, let's consider the specific form of abuse she decided to try and compare squats to. It's being belittled over the slightest, smallest perceived error. It's being gas lighted until that person can tell you the sky is green and you'll agree with them because you no longer trust your own senses. It's slowly losing your identity as you give up everything that makes you, you, in an effort to appease them.

It's getting isolated from your friends and family. Dealing with the constant, non stop projecting of their issues onto you. Falling for that sweet honeymoon phase again and again, and each time it's over, being that much more broken. It's abuse so subtle that it's essentially undocumentable.

When you seek help out to get out of the situation, you get told again and again how devestated they are that you're being abused, but the resources simply aren't there to help you. Unless you can force an escalation into physical abuse the resources just aren't there.

So yes, the op was being highly offensive.

What? Really? I just thought they were describing an a-hole partner, not someone who is literally abusive. Projecting, are we?

Lizarking

JustinAnimal wrote: »

Willbenchforcupcakes wrote: »

julierockhead wrote: »

How is OP being offensive? Criminy, can't people even complain creatively anymore without the PC police finding out? If you are humor impaired, I feel for you, but please allow the rest of us to laugh a bit.

I *kitten* HATE squats. But they are giving me thigh definition and lifting my sagging middle aged *kitten* right up, so I do them.

How is the op being offensive? Hmm, let's consider the specific form of abuse she decided to try and compare squats to. It's being belittled over the slightest, smallest perceived error. It's being gas lighted until that person can tell you the sky is green and you'll agree with them because you no longer trust your own senses. It's slowly losing your identity as you give up everything that makes you, you, in an effort to appease them.

It's getting isolated from your friends and family. Dealing with the constant, non stop projecting of their issues onto you. Falling for that sweet honeymoon phase again and again, and each time it's over, being that much more broken. It's abuse so subtle that it's essentially undocumentable.

When you seek help out to get out of the situation, you get told again and again how devestated they are that you're being abused, but the resources simply aren't there to help you. Unless you can force an escalation into physical abuse the resources just aren't there.

So yes, the op was being highly offensive.

What? Really? I just thought they were describing an a-hole partner, not someone who is literally abusive. Projecting, are we?

they literally said abusive. So.......

canadianlbs

JoRocka wrote: »

You can quit squatting. not cancer.

that's true enough, but i honestly don't get where the cancer got into it. i'm 99.999999% certain that it wasn' t through anything that i said, so you're talking about something i didn't even bring up.

And I can't for the life of me understand at all how you can at ALL parallel the feelings of an emotional abusive relationship to a dislike of squatting.

oh well. different people have different experiences, and different ways of processing them on top of that. i'm not going to go into personal detail in front of a bunch of stranger to try and close that gap in your mind, and it would still just be all about me if i did, so there isn't much relevance. you're free to not-get the way i look at it, but i'll remain free to process my own experiences and my perspectives on them any way that i like. i goofed in the way i expressed them, but that's all i'm prepared to apologize for.

I'm sorry- I cannot comprehend that- it's like apples to paper cuts. it just doesn't make sense.

fair enough. that's the way i feel about this sudden leap to cancer, so why don't we just leave it there.

JoRocka

canadianlbs wrote: »

JoRocka wrote: »

You can quit squatting. not cancer.

that's true enough, but i honestly don't get where the cancer got into it. i'm 99.999999% certain that it wasn' t through anything that i said, so you're talking about something i didn't even bring up.

And I can't for the life of me understand at all how you can at ALL parallel the feelings of an emotional abusive relationship to a dislike of squatting.

oh well. different people have different experiences, and different ways of processing them on top of that. i'm not going to go into personal detail in front of a bunch of stranger to try and close that gap in your mind, and it would still just be all about me if i did, so there isn't much relevance. you're free to not-get the way i look at it, but i'll remain free to process my own experiences and my perspectives on them any way that i like. i goofed in the way i expressed them, but that's all i'm prepared to apologize for.

I'm sorry- I cannot comprehend that- it's like apples to paper cuts. it just doesn't make sense.

fair enough. that's the way i feel about this sudden leap to cancer, so why don't we just leave it there.

I was making an extreme analogy much like you were.

If you don't see that- well then I absolutely understand now why your original post is the way it is and why you don't see it's issues.

Chieflrg

Wow, the vomit drama this place spits out...

JoRocka

Chieflrg wrote: »

Wow, the vomit drama this place spits out...

I don't even understand how we got here honestly.

squat- don't squat.
Either suck it up and do it and stop *kitten* whining.
Or stop doing them.

This is not a crisis.

middlehaitch

I like squats, squats don't like me.

I have a bit of a physical limitation, age, strength, and size going against me so I squat with a body bar for form and stability, and leg press for strength.

Not perfect, but coming to terms with doing what I can do (that took a few months of mind games), not what everyone else can do, or what a programme tells me to do, took a lot of stress out of my gym visits.

All I am trying to do is retain muscle, bone density, and build strength without injuring myself, not compete with anyone but myself. I may one day be able to squat with the bar, but is no longer a fail because I can't right now.

Cheers, h.

RoxieDawn

My grandma used to say, "if it hurts when you do that, stop doing that!"..

Let's turn it around, "if you hate doing that, stop doing that"

eta: I DON'T LO-V-E squats, but I love what they do for me!

Riff1970

I see some people need a safe zone when they get online.

Facepalm

KHS86