Things you hate people say about working out

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  • XX_Miss_RoseMary_XX
    XX_Miss_RoseMary_XX Posts: 274 Member
    After I've taken a 20 minute Casual Walk My Fiance likes to say "Don't you think we've exercised enough today?"

    WTF? UHH NO. I think That the 20 minutes was for my mental health, not my "cardio" for the day.
  • terem00
    terem00 Posts: 176 Member
    "Should I tone OR lose weight?" Seriously?????

    I also get the nasty looks because I wear my makeup while working out. I go to my classes straight after work, I don't exactly have time to remove it all. I don't skimp on my workouts either, there is no shortage of sweat dripping down my face (and my makeup is still intact and looks great!) They're just jealous
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    "You're so lucky." "You've got great genes."

    :explode: Yeah, it's so random that I'm fit like this. I was just born this awesome. :indifferent:
  • AbbyCar
    AbbyCar Posts: 198 Member
    My doctor told me that I need to start jogging or something, b/c my almost hour long BodyPump class would not be enough cardio, b/c "aerobics classes have too many breaks and do not get your heart rate up enough". I told him that he needed to take one of the classes before he said that.

    Another one is, "I'm just going to give up. I worked out three times this week and only lost a pound!" As if doing anything for one week is going to magically make you drop the 10+ pounds you would like to lose.
  • Lisa_Rhodes
    Lisa_Rhodes Posts: 263 Member
    I don't like getting unsolicited advice (unless it's my hubby/immediate family). There's one person I work with, works out once or twice a week (sometimes not at all that week) and thinks he's mr. knowitall when it comes to fitness/nutrition (more like Mr. BS)... I have to workout at the gym at work and dread when I have to do it during lunch and he is doing the same thing.. pretty much wait 10-15min after he goes so when I get there, he's almost done or leaving.

    Just writing this makes me boil bc I can't stand him...
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    ...or when someone asks you how you do it and when you explain they roll their eyes and say, "OMG I could never live like that. Too much work! I'd rather die." Be careful what you wish for.
  • groversa
    groversa Posts: 450 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"

    ^^ This is a great response! lol!
  • bokodasu
    bokodasu Posts: 629 Member
    I try not to talk to most people about diet or exercise, because nobody wants to hear it, and I *really* don't want to hear what they think about what I do. But I've pretty obviously changed shape and so casual acquaintences do say things, and then I say, "yeah, been working out" and try to change the subject but no. Everyone has to spend the next twenty minutes telling me how they "bulk right up" when they work out or they "don't have time" to go to the gym. Yeah, I know where you go for lunch, I'm sure that has nothing to do with "bulking up" and dude, you don't even have kids, don't tell me about "having time". Grit teeth, smile smile smile.

    I did have a couple of old ladies tell me that I should put down those heavy dumbbells and follow their 100-rep circuit to "tone up", but, you know, old ladies. Can't get upset about that.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    "Gym memberships/equipment/trainers/shoes/etc are sooooo expensive"

    Yeah? So are heart attacks/fat clothes/crap food/strokes/wheelchairs/and double seats on planes.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    "God, I hate running/lifting/Zumba etc..."

    Well, don't do it then. No type of exercise is compulsory and there's always an alternative that will help you meet your goals.
  • lizdavis07
    lizdavis07 Posts: 766 Member
    From slim people: "I'm lucky, I don't need to exercise." :noway:

    This! I can't stand when people think that just because they are skinny, they are healthy.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    "God, I hate running/lifting/Zumba etc..."

    Well, don't do it then. No type of exercise is compulsory and there's always an alternative that will help you meet your goals.

    This. I was under the delusion for years that I hated exercise (and thus refused to do it), only to find that I what I hated was a certain TYPE of exercise. That thought had literally not occurred to me before MFP.
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
    "God, I hate running/lifting/Zumba etc..."

    Well, don't do it then. No type of exercise is compulsory and there's always an alternative that will help you meet your goals.

    Ugh, on a similar vein, my best friend always gives me the "You shouldn't always do the elliptical. You should run more." Well, I hate running. It hurts my ankles and I just don't enjoy it. "yeah, but running is so much better for you. And your body will get used to only the elliptical."

    And what does he do? He only runs. Only. Ever. I tried to get him on the elliptical, and he stopped after 5 minutes saying he didn't like it.

    I'm like oh you hypocrite.... at least I'm doing something so shut up.
  • Philllbis
    Philllbis Posts: 801 Member
    The one I get all the time is as I step off the treadmill covered in sweat, "running is easy for you, you're thin." Then, I tell them that at this time last year I was 110lbs heavier, "it's easier for men to lose weight than women."

    I'm not the one walking on a treadmill at 3.0 mph while reading a magazine!
  • megalin9
    megalin9 Posts: 771 Member
    ANY excuse pisses me off.

    "My wife cooks dinner, so I'm at her mercy."

    "I have to burn a gazillion calories and eat Slim Fast shakes and net 800 calories a day to lose weight, so I'm going to race on the arc trainer at minimal resistance, never challenging myself, and never ever ever lifting any weights," says the 42-year-old male cardio bunny who can't break his plateau.

    "I can't lift weights because of an injury." - While I realize this might be true, I also know that strength training HELPS injuries by strengthening the supporting muscles and ligaments.

    "I can't run. It hurts my back."

    My favorite: "I don't want to work-out and be all sweaty when I go back to work." - We have showers at our work gym, and if you really cared about getting in shape, you wouldn't care about being sweaty at work.

    So many more. I hate excuses.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    It's hard. Actually, I hate when people call anything hard to do. One thing I always talk to my boys about is that, the choice to do something is not "hard", though it may be difficult because of cirrcumstances. But once you have made that choice, difficult or not, it is just work. Some of it might be mentally challenging and some of it physically challenging. It is NOT hard. It is a challenge.

    Bit of symantics, I know. But I want them to see these as challenges to overcome and not as anything else.
  • jimmyalice1984
    jimmyalice1984 Posts: 171 Member
    From overweight people: I can't exercise because I have a bad back/ knee - when I was 42 lbs heavier I had both - it's no wonder my back and my knee hurt, but in the words of Susan Powter (there's a blast from the past), exercise and MODIFY, MODIFY, MODIFY!!
    Same with pain in shoulder - which I had from old injury - strengthen it gently, don't make it an excuse to stay the way you are. I can nearly do full push ups now which has taken 2 years of patient gentle strengthening. And I've regained full range of motion when doing dumbell flies.
    Alot of people just don't want to work hard when it comes to their health especially here in the UK with our already overstretched National Health Service.
  • jessmart83
    jessmart83 Posts: 283 Member
    This was said by my best friend of 14 years. "If you want to get in shape, you really need to start going to the gym." What? I work out at home and go running 3 times a week. I have lost 15lbs since January. I think I am doing just fine without a gym thanks. She is also a stay at home mom, her daughter is at school all day, and she only hits the gym maybe once a week, and sits there and watches her crush work his *kitten* off instead of doing it herself.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 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.

    I had a trainer tell me it should be 40% lifting, 40% diet and 20% cardio.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    "Gym memberships/equipment/trainers/shoes/etc are sooooo expensive"

    Yeah? So are heart attacks/fat clothes/crap food/strokes/wheelchairs/and double seats on planes.

    Epic response. :smile:
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member

    "I can't run. It hurts my back."


    I can't run. It DOES hurt my lower back and knees.
    But I speed walk on the treadmill, and I lift weight carefully when I'm working around the injuries. There's always alternatives.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    One other thing I hate, related more to diet than exercise, is when people project their own insecurities onto me because of the decisions I make about how I treat my own body. I was told recently at a work lunch that I make everyone around me feel fat and gross because I order a salad while they're ordering burgers and fries. No, you feel fat and gross because you aren't willing to exercise any self-control over your food choices. Don't pin that on me.
  • caspergirl7
    caspergirl7 Posts: 590 Member
    This just happened to me today! I was doing my thing at the gym when a well intentioned old man came up to me and advised me that I shouldn't be using free weights or barbells b/c I could get hurt, and that I should just use the machines for a far superior workout. LOL!!! My trainer and I got a laugh out of that.

    Ummm....rage. That would have likely caused me to launch into a full on feminist rant.

    ^ Ha!! Me Too!!!
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    One other thing I hate, related more to diet than exercise, is when people project their own insecurities onto me because of the decisions I make about how I treat my own body. I was told recently at a work lunch that I make everyone around me feel fat and gross because I order a salad while they're ordering burgers and fries. No, you feel fat and gross because you aren't willing to exercise any self-control over your food choices. Don't pin that on me.

    I hope you said that out loud. :flowerforyou:
  • KittyViolet
    KittyViolet Posts: 220 Member
    "But you'll lose your boobs!!!" So you'd rather have a big belly to make your big boobs look smaller?

    THIS! ARGH! I was plagued with this kind of accursed configuration since puberty! So yeah, I have tiny tits, but at least I also have a waist now.
  • cupboard_stalker
    cupboard_stalker Posts: 62 Member
    Old(er) lady who does ONE water aerobics class a week:
    "Gosh, old age really makes it feel like hard work! You don't find it as hard because you are younger!"

    .....Er, no, i don't find it as hard because i do 6 hours a week at the gym and also run twice a week! Old age is not as synonymous with fitness to the extent ignorant unfit people justify it! Rant over!
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    "Running gives me footballer's legs". Yeah, those marathon runners have such chunky thighs...
  • Becoming_A_Butterfly
    Becoming_A_Butterfly Posts: 2,534 Member
    That reading a magazine while on the elliptical means I am not getting a good workout.

    I can read a magazine while NOT leaning on the machine, ramping up the incline and intensity when I need to, and still using the arm things on the elliptical. I'd much rather do that than stare at the wall just so I feel like I am getting a good workout.
  • RunDoozer
    RunDoozer Posts: 1,699 Member
    Sweating is gross

    Anyone over 5'6 on a 1200 calorie a day diet

    You're going to hurt yourself with free weights.

    Mehdi referring to Arnold as something to strive to attain.
    No thanks ill keep the needles out of me. Stronglifts 5x5 thing.

    When I lose weight ill work out.... How does that make sense?
  • RunDoozer
    RunDoozer Posts: 1,699 Member
    That reading a magazine while on the elliptical means I am not getting a good workout.

    I can read a magazine while NOT leaning on the machine, ramping up the incline and intensity when I need to, and still using the arm things on the elliptical. I'd much rather do that than stare at the wall just so I feel like I am getting a good workout.

    Saw a girl running on the treadmill yesterday at 7.5 and reading a textbook. My mouth kinda dropped

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