Things you hate people say about working out

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  • awadm
    awadm Posts: 252
    "Good thing I'm on the thin side, I'm too lazy to workout as much as you do."

    .....uh huh, let's see how long you stay on the thin side :grumble:
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    "You cant get a good workout from following a dvd." Said nay-sayer couldn't finish one round of the DVD workout.
    "Girls shouldn't lift because they will hurt themselves." From the delivery guys at work. They don't say that anymore since they now realize I can lift more than they can.

    I love proving them wrong.

    I have a coworker who told me this. I am currently doing turbo fire. She said she HAS to go to the gym to feel like she works out. DVD's do nothing for her. Let's just say she is a bit on the husky side. And i'm making progress.
  • GBOGH_5
    GBOGH_5 Posts: 174 Member
    "You are so lucky that you are thin"

    Uh, no. It has nothing to do with luck. It has everything to do with busting my *kitten* 6 days a week.
  • samanthawardle31
    samanthawardle31 Posts: 58 Member
    I honestly believed the DVD workout thing! I better dust mine of...
  • crimsoncat
    crimsoncat Posts: 457 Member
    "You are so lucky that you are thin"

    Uh, no. It has nothing to do with luck. It has everything to do with busting my *kitten* 6 days a week.

    This 6x over.

    I was overweight before I started and people seem to have forgotten that 5 years ago I was much heavier than them. Now they have gained weight and tell me "you must have good genetics. I could never be that thin." I'm very confused by this as they WERE this thin when they were younger. >__<

    People have short memories.
  • crimsoncat
    crimsoncat Posts: 457 Member
    I honestly believed the DVD workout thing! I better dust mine of...

    I lost 25 lbs and 3 pants sizes and kept it off for 5 years doing a pilates dvd. The "dvds don't work" statement is VERY false.
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    Bro, do you even lift?
  • tehzephyrsong
    tehzephyrsong Posts: 435 Member
    Regarding "if your hair and makeup is done, you're not really here to work:" it depends on what you then do at the gym once you get there. If you hop on an elliptical and proceed to go *juuuust* fast enough to keep the machine from shutting off, while flipping through an issue of Cosmo (or worse, talking loudly on your cell or with your bedazzled friend doing the same thing), then yeah. You're not here to work, you're here to be seen and take up space, and should gtfo (but not too fast, wouldn't want to start sweating!). OP, you seem to be more in the camp of "I didn't have time or didn't feel like washing my face before coming here, plus I'm going to shower afterward anyway." That's me, too. I've gone to the gym with makeup on and hair styled before. I do it pretty often, actually. Hair goes into a ponytail and I sweat my washable makeup off within about half an hour. I wind up looking like a hot mess, but who cares? I'm not out to impress anybody at that point.
  • lhgalant
    lhgalant Posts: 101 Member
    oh boy, where to begin...

    my #1 pet peeve is for someone who DOES NOT work out to try to give me advice. Or better yet, those people that only workout for the 3 months before summer & seem to be the experts. working out & eating right is NOT something you do 3 months out of the year....it is LIFESTYLE!!!
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    I just generally hate when anyone tells me what I should or shouldn't be doing unless I have specifically sought out their advice. I am fortunate to have some friends who know a lot about strength training and nutrition, and they have helped me a great deal when I have asked for their input. Then there are others who think they need to impart the wisdom they gleaned from watching an episode of Dr. Oz or seeing an Insanity infomerical, and I just want to smack them.

    Another one that gets me is "I don't have time." I have a lot more respect for a fat person who can admit that they just don't care than one who says "I don't have time to work out or eat right." Those people mysteriously find time to watch American Idol and The Bachelor every week, and they have time to go shopping and go to happy hour literally every day. But no time to work out or prepare healthy meals. Sure.
  • bmqbonnie
    bmqbonnie Posts: 836 Member
    "I don't have time".

    You probably spend a good couple hours a day watching TV and/or surfing the internet. I can almost assure you that you can squeeze in an intense 20-30 minute workout a few days a week.

    "Eating healthy food is too expensive".

    Only if you're replacing your unhealthy processed food with "healthy" processed food. If you actually cook your own food you will save a ton of money over both options and you really won't spend any more time making some rice with meat, sauce and veggies than you would making a box of rice a roni.
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    You shouldn't lift wieghts your gonna get bulky

    Or this little gem here

    You should lose your weight with cardio then weight train so you don't turn your fat into muscle and stay big.........:huh:

    Women should only do cardio

    Lifting weights won't help you lose weight
  • kwilliams386
    kwilliams386 Posts: 156 Member
    my metabolism is down because I'm old. NO! its because you don't work out.

    Or

    I get my exercise chasing after my kids.. Unless you ran a mile after them you did not.

    I use my nephew all the time to exercise. at 35 lbs he makes for great at home weights!
  • erickita89
    erickita89 Posts: 422 Member
    i hate when people comment on me going to the gym too much! and Its the same people who pay for a gym membership and hardly ever go. I go 4-5 days a week right after work and they are like: "You're going AGAIN *eyeroll*? You're going to kill yourself"
    No I'm going to kill my fat, lazy *kitten*, DONT HATE
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    How about when people say "Oh, I wish I had the time to work out as much you do...but I'm just so busy"

    ....as if I'm getting up at 4:00 in the morning because its so much fun and because I'm not busy enough!
  • jennmodugno
    jennmodugno Posts: 363 Member
    "It's too hard for me."

    Well, duh. Nobody starts anything and finds it EASY. You have to work up to being like those insane weight lifters, or marathon runners, or Jackie Chan. If you never start because it's hard, it can never get easy.
  • ChgingMe
    ChgingMe Posts: 539 Member
    How about when people say "Oh, I wish I had the time to work out as much you do...but I'm just so busy"

    ....as if I'm getting up at 4:00 in the morning because its so much fun and because I'm not busy enough!

    Yes. I currently know someone like that. She says she just doesn't have time. Yet watches more TV then I care to mention.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    After years of hearing unsolicited "advice" I came up with a standard reply

    "If I wanted to look like you, I'd work out like you"

    That is so badass. I'm totally stealing that one! :laugh:
  • Mhaney
    Mhaney Posts: 467 Member
    I can't stand people who whine about it then wonder why their fitness isn't improving
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    Any use of the word 'tone'.

    There is this girl i know who always claims to lift heavy, but all she does is peck deck, bicep curls, and side bends in the aerobics room. She tags herself at the gym saying "Meet me at the bar, bro." She has never even touched a barbell. (I see her a lot)
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    From slim people: "I'm lucky, I don't need to exercise." :noway:

    And: "What's the best exercise?" The one you enjoy doing enough to stick to, and that can change all the time!
  • angeltg
    angeltg Posts: 97 Member
    "But you'll lose your boobs!!!" So you'd rather have a big belly to make your big boobs look smaller?
  • mmrp79
    mmrp79 Posts: 167 Member
    "You can't show up the the gym in a full face of makeup and your hair all done and get a good workout in."
  • trainguy917
    trainguy917 Posts: 366 Member
    I hate it when my morbidly obese doctor tells me I have to lose weight (already doing that), I have to take cholesterol pills (we'll see about that) and that I need to stop running.
  • mariodog1
    mariodog1 Posts: 16 Member
    I totally agree with you. When I go to the gym I mean buisness. I don't care how i look as long as i get a good workout.
  • Mhaney
    Mhaney Posts: 467 Member
    "I'm allergic to sweating"...yes I did hear this...from a lame *kitten* cycle instructor who never does the work.

    omg I actually met this girl from a different hot climate country and she said the exact same thing. That she is allergic to sweating and she faints all the time if she sweats.

    This isn't completely untrue. My dad is actually allergic to his own sweat. He breaks out in a huge, ugly rash when he sweats alot. (i.e. It's 100+ degrees outside, or working out.) His doctor told him he was allergic due to his liver problems.

    when i sweat I turn bright bright red. It's an allergic reaction to working out, it releases histamines. I am on a 24-hour dosage of allergy meds and it helps a little but I still look like I was left out in the sun too long.
  • mmrp79
    mmrp79 Posts: 167 Member



    "You can't show up the the gym in a full face of makeup and your hair all done and get a good workout in."


    ^^Same here...I either work out during lunch or right after work^^
  • droneofvelvet
    droneofvelvet Posts: 290 Member
    I hate when people say, "It is 80% diet and 20% exercise". First, did you or someone else do statistical research on this? If so where is the evidence? Second, this statement says to me that nobody has to exercise. I find the physical fitness aspect of losing weight to be the key to looking how you want and burning up calories quickly. You can only restrict your intake so much before the pressures of hunger and socializing get to you. You can, however, exercise quite a bit and enjoy a multitude of other benefits.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,021 Member
    Women: Let's go do some toning exercises.

    Men: (on leg day) Let's go do chest or back.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness industry for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • joyzeejay
    joyzeejay Posts: 95 Member
    After years of hearing unsolicited "advice" I came up with a standard reply

    "If I wanted to look like you, I'd work out like you"

    OMGOOOOOSH!!! I LOVE it!!!!! I'm using it!!

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