dumb questions people that don't workout ask you

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  • TravelsWithHuckleberry
    TravelsWithHuckleberry Posts: 955 Member
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    I really give up trying to explain anything. I had a coworker say I don't look like I lift because she can't see my definition through my uniform. Ummm...it isn't made of spandex.

    OMG people are ridiculous. Your response is hilarious -- please tell me you actually said that!
  • haildodger
    haildodger Posts: 181 Member
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    "So when are you going to be done working out and going to the gym?"

    Um...never?

    And

    "When are you going to start eating 'normal' again?"

    as soon as I want to look like you, I'll eat like you. :laugh:

    Lol.. I get the: "When are you going to start eating 'normal' again?", and I don't even work out yet. I usually say:"This is my normal", but I like your response better. :)

    At work when the boss buys cheese cake/donuts/popsicles I get the "Take a day off from your diet." I didn't like that crap even when I was fat. And if I did eat it back then, it was just to be "polite".
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,326 Member
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    after a workou with my gym bag, wearing workout leggings and a tee that's all sweaty and i'm all sweaty even in the winter. i jog home the few blocks from the gym and sometimes i stop in the corner store for a cold coke zero.

    the guy behind the counter asks "did you just come from the gym?" :laugh:
  • DenDweller
    DenDweller Posts: 1,438 Member
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    Humph.If a person tries to talk to me but doesn't look like they work out I just hold out my open hand, turn up my nose, and walk away.
  • fluffyasacat
    fluffyasacat Posts: 242 Member
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    Humph.If a person tries to talk to me but doesn't look like they work out I just hold out my open hand, turn up my nose, and walk away.
    :laugh:

    "Why are people who get strung out by people who DON'T EVEN LIFT always thinking of what they really should have said two days later and then posting it in a forum?"
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
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    I guess I'm lucky. Mostly I just get compliments on the progress I've made. Though I've had a few "I wish I could have the discipline you do", to which I answer something along the lines of "It's easier than you imagine. You just have to decide to start, and then decide to not stop."

    I try not to criticize people that don't workout or that over eat, or that know less than I do now. Because let's face it, a little over two years ago, I was one of them. That I made the decision to change before they did doesn't make me better than them. And I could still fail tomorrow, or in two years, or five or ten.

    And any 'dumb question' they ask me is probably relatively no dumber than the lifting questions I might ask Mark Rippetoe or Dave Tate given the opportunity.
  • R1ss4n1
    R1ss4n1 Posts: 35 Member
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    My favorite.. "How do you run?!"

    My answer.. "Well, i put one foot in front of the other, kind of like walkng..but a lot faster"

    Hey, running ain't easy. Before I learned how I genuinely asked that question!

    I haven't really been asked any dumb questions other than the general "How do you find the time."

    Time machine - i totally have a time machine.

    My time machine is an alarm clock. ;)

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