I did not ask you...

Or, ya know, you could have explained to her why that type of mindset is incorrect. But judging feels better, right?

Maybe I misread the post, but ... didn't they do just that?

Both crossfit woman and I said, "no that doesn't work. Body Pump will not give these muscles. You need to lift heavy to change your body and gain muscles."

I didn't read where they just looked at each other and said, "Ew. Is SHE talking to US?!"

But I lack the diviniation skillz of others.

I was so annoyed...If I thought the other woman had a great body then I would have asked her. But I didn't. Obviously... I was not impressed with your body b/c I did not ask you

I suggest taking Ancient Runes next year.

There's no quotation marks there. I assumed that was her inner monologue, not something she actually said.

I was so annoyed

really?

You must find day to day life extremely irritating if you get that annoyed over someones opinion.
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exactly! she spoke up and maybe she shouldn't have but your reaction is childish and rude

Something similar happened to me a couple of days ago. I went to get a quote at a gym and explained to the lady at the desk my goal was to lift heavy. She said that I need to lift low weight with high reps not the other way around else I'd gain muscle under fat.

Needless to say, I walked out laughing.

ive been told this more than I can count since grade school. instead of being annoyed, educate the person why its not right. really some people just don't know any better because that's what they've been told all of their life.

You have to understand...this was someone that worked at the gym. The gym I was going to apply to. I DID attempt to tell her that it's outdated thinking when she asked me where I got my information from, and cited the NROLFW, Stronglifts 5x5, even ChaLEAN Extreme plans. She gave me a dismissive huff and went back to her computer.

Not the kind of gym I'd want to work out at. I'd be worried about all the clerks running up to me and getting me to stop if I started lifting above like, 10 pounds. :laugh:

Read her OP, what I put in the quote box is what she actually said.

I read it. That's what she said in the post. I didn't take away from it that she said that to the other woman, though.

If she DID say that, then, yeah, it was incredibly rude.

I didn't take away that she said that either. I said that she was being judgmental. :huh:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you have to consider the possibility that maybe she doesn't find your body attractive and was trying to steer you towards her aesthetic. I find older women, in particular, think muscles are unfeminine. But their are "gym know it all" types in every gym I've ever been to. Heck, I've even had people in the park interrupt my run to say something rude.

I don't think you should be offering unsolicited advice at the gym unless you are pretty well educated on health and fitness. Problem is most people think they are educated and a lot of their "information" comes from suspect sources

It's worse when it's the "educated" people. One of the instructors at my gym (who is an extremely nice person) was complaining today that she can't get her shoulders into the shape that she wants in time for an upcoming fashion show. And then showed us around the kinesis room using about a 30 pound weight for leg work and looking somewhat askance at my weak playing around 70. This is someone who has some nice muscles but spends all of her time doing high rep/low weight work and never really progresses. Which is totally cool (she looks great for her age) if she weren't interested in progressing.

Then we move on to discussion of weight loss, when I said something about a caloric deficit she kept going on and on about how that's important but you can't just go around eating fat all the time...

Yargh. So let's see: low weights, high reps, cardio cardio cardio and don't eat fat.

I like to take her classes sometimes as they throw a bit of variety into the cardio/weights/cardio/weights monotony, but I might need to start taping my mouth shut before I go. It's not that this advice won't result in weight loss provided you actually do achieve a caloric deficit, it's just that it's incredibly inefficient and I wish she weren't advising people to do this.

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In other news: Am I the only one that's strangely disappointed he stopped at his trousers?

That lemon knows how to party.

Yeah...people tend to want to jump in.