Nerds who lift

89nunu

<-- lifting art historian

sammniamii

Nerd & Uber geek reporting...
(drafter/eng tech - both parents DM's so learnt from birth)

and here is mine (have new gym, so excuse the smith machine - old gym)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0qwC_ZopQ (( as I can't insert / youtube, damn you/ loss of cred, -5))

DrMAvDPhD

Lifting nerd here. I've got a PhD in chemistry and am currently finishing up NROL Supercharged. In a cut right now for the bodybuilding.com 100k challenge.

bellahopo29

I'm not a "Nerd" but i do class my self as been different so to all you "Nerds" out there that lift...Good on ya

Healthy_Hunnie

IN!

I love this! INN

husseycd

Also a nerd who lifts. I'm a civil engineer. I've been lifting since September 2013, so not very long, but I've been into aerial arts (which is heavy lifting for everything but legs) since 2011.

mmartinez_az

Nerd here, I make over $200,000 a month

delicious_cocktail

Nerd here, I make over $200,000 a month

What an incredibly strange thing to say to qualify as a nerd. Unless you're demonstrating social awkwardness?

MoreBean13

Nerd here, I make over $200,000 a month

So does Michael Vick.

No_Finish_Line

glad you ended some miss conceptions

PlayBall5

Please add me. I totally belong to this nerd herd group!

Jo_Baxter

I'm in! I have no video's of my lifts to turn into gifs YET. I will when, as someone above stated earlier, my form improves and I'm lifting more than light weights.

Nerd Cred: intelligent, chemistry major who is into astrophysics, technology and history. A gamer, RPGs and FPS are my faves. Like to read sci-fi and the classics. Some of my favorite series books/movies/shows are LOTR and A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones for all of you HBO subscribers). I own swords (yes real swords). I could keep going, like how I was in choir. Nah, I wont.

Loved reading everyone's posts. Looks like a fun group.

the_texreb

I'm a database administrator. I used to lift, but right now the only thing I lift is myself. I'm just doing bodyweight stuff right now, but in Iraq I used to lift big 5 days a week, and for a couple years after.

EmilyJackCO

Space Australia!

Go Space Broncos!

Space dingos!

Space Corgis!!

My_Own_Worst_Enemy

Fullsterkur_woman

Joe, did you invent an isomorph secret language with transitional grammar based on limb position for the Alterian upper neuter families with a historical reference to Lacandon language motes? By the age of 12? And then teach it to you little brothers, forever scarring them as "odd".


Oh, I see. Pfffft. <wiggle left hand UP> perkopfff.

*panty drop*

joehempel

I know. I was being a socially inept literalist.

It's all good....you had me at isomorph secret language

VBnotbitter

I listen to science and skeptic podcasts whilst lifting, does that count?

Also have the social awkwardness down pat as I'm to shy to make friend requests on MFP let alone real life :sad:

jeralank

Can I be in??? I teach High School AP Physics!!!

neandermagnon

I qualify:

- I lift heavy things for fun
- My main (rather obsessive) nerdy interest is a field of biological sciences that has 8 syllables and I will throw stuff like Sahelanthropus tchadensis and neanderthal admixture hypothesis around in conversations on occasion
- I'm even currently writing some nerdy fiction about neanderthal admixture, time travel and early Homo erectus

delicious_cocktail

Homo erectus

WHOA!
Family site, no slashfic.

GameTimeKB24

Network Administrator and I lift... (well, try to lift) ==> really really try to lift. Still working on it.

LiftAllThePizzas

Joe, did you invent an isomorph secret language with transitional grammar based on limb position for the Alterian upper neuter families with a historical reference to Lacandon language motes? By the age of 12? And then teach it to you little brothers, forever scarring them as "odd".


Oh, I see. Pfffft. <wiggle left hand UP> perkopfff.

LOL

neandermagnon

Homo erectus

WHOA!
Family site, no slashfic.

don't blame me, blame Eugene Dubois and whoever reclassified them into the genus Homo.


A weighty responsibility is on the shoulders of anyone who discovers a new species, in that they have to give it a name.

SquidVonBob

I'm not a nerd who lifts, I am a nerd who is considering getting into lifting. It can be very intimidating for a small girl in video game pun t-shirts to walk into the weight room at the gym. I'm also scared about hurting my back which is weak from old injuries. Any advice?

neandermagnon

I'm not a nerd who lifts, I am a nerd who is considering getting into lifting. It can be very intimidating for a small girl in video game pun t-shirts to walk into the weight room at the gym. I'm also scared about hurting my back which is weak from old injuries. Any advice?

first check with a sports doctor or sports physio re the old injuries. not any old doctor (many will just say "don't lift" because they don't have time to find out the details of the old injury etc) but one that understands sports medicine. The vast majority of the time it's safe to lift with old injuries, in fact in many cases it's beneficial, but it's always a good idea to check first.

next: get a book like Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe and follow the programme in that, and pay very close attention to correct form, especially with the old injuries. bad form = risk of injury (and part of the reason a lot of doctors just say "don't lift" because a lot of people injure themselves lifting with bad form, then docs blame lifting rather than bad form). get someone who knows what they're doing to check your form for lifts as well, because it helps. some personal trainers will do this if you hire them but beware of ones that don't have a clue what they're doing, or will try to scare you off by saying it'll make you bulky (usually because they don't know anything about lifting....)

that's it really.... and don't be afraid to go in the weight room, most gym goers are happy to see new people taking exercise seriously

QueenBishOTUniverse

I qualify:

- I lift heavy things for fun
- My main (rather obsessive) nerdy interest is a field of biological sciences that has 8 syllables and I will throw stuff like Sahelanthropus tchadensis and neanderthal admixture hypothesis around in conversations on occasion
- I'm even currently writing some nerdy fiction about neanderthal admixture, time travel and early Homo erectus

Oh oh oh, The Atlantis Gene series, 2 out, 3rd out soon. I read these in a weekend. Might be right up your alley.

ETA: I enjoy calling myself an elasmobranch ethologist and watching people's reactions.

NicoleRaeB

Does being a geek who reads a lot and watches a bunch of Doctor Who count? I lifted weights in high school and whenever I get around to going to the gym.

LiftAllThePizzas

Does being a geek who reads a lot and watches a bunch of Doctor Who count? I lifted weights in high school and whenever I get around to going to the gym.

IMO any one self-identifies counts.

harphy

Another nerd-ess who just started lifting here. I am OS fan, run Linux on my comp and teach IT skills. That should be quite enough!