I've been noticing men...and I use that term loosely are getting smaller and smaller and heavier and heavier. A young fellow at the gym was telling me how he couldn't gain any size but then proceeded to get on a treadmill and run for 30 minutes.
People like this are usually confused and have no idea what the hell they want or how to achieve their goals.
Another guy who was grossly overweight was lifting weights and never came near the cardio equipment. All the while sipping on some red, more than likely carb drink to give him fuel.
Many guys do not like cardio, hence their lousy conditioning and inability to locomotive faster than a walk. And if they do cardio, it is not REAL running--that is, real running on real terrain or concrete or asphalt outside--or REAL cycling--cycling done outside. Those forms of cardio require to much coordination and struggle and they both can be unpleasant, and sometimes if one is struggling, walking or taking it easy on the bike would make things even longer time-wise.
People have also bought the ridiculous peri-workout idea in that they believe that they have to sip on artificial factory made junk which is dirt cheap but is sold for inflated retail prices.
Also, many fat-muscular guys are obsessed with their size and love when people and themselves refer to themselves as, "the big guy", and they fear that trimming down would hamper their "big guy" status". As we know, they're called perma-bulkers.
The heavy people I come across always talk about how hard dieting is.
Most heavy people are literally addicted to food and can't stop eating once they start. Dieting to a reasonable healthy body fat, say 12-17% for an ordinary dude, or even some athletes, is NOT hard, unless one has an endocrine disorder making it extremely difficult or impossible (eg, PCOS, Cushing syndrome, Addison's disease, hypothyroidism, etc.).
They have no energy and they don't eat a lot but still can't lose weight.
They have no energy because they keep stuffing their face and fatness causes fatigue and blunts physiological, fat-burning pathways.
FAT PEOPLE EAT TOO MUCH for 99+% of cases!!! All of this bullshit, like, "I hardly eat" or "I don't eat much," is just that: BULLSHIT!
The skinny people I see in the gym, are the ones running to each piece of equipment and of course keeping a journal of their progress.
Many permabulkers and successful lifters to keep journals. Remember the DC heyday in which people were "making the logbook their bitch"? That's actually useful if one is hell bent on making progress. It's not just skinny guys doing it.
The skinny guys wear shorts with black compression socks to their knees.
I've seen plenty of PLers and jacked guys doing this as well. I am not skinny and I wear compression tights under my shorts in the gym in the winter and when doing cardio because I don't like all that baggage on me, especially when jumping rope or deadline or doing plyometrics or anything dynamic.
The heavy guys seem to gravitate to the weight lifting gloves.
I've seen this before, and it usually goes with neckless, outdated, bodybuilding sweatshirts or string tank tops on guys who have no business wearing them, as you say. I know these guys, the big lugs who are hooked on benching, lat pulldowns, and Hammer Strength machines, all the activities in which you just plop your ass on a bench or seat and tug or push, but never something that requires athleticism, like a power clean, say.
Both types I've seen wear shirts that say "SECURITY" on the back... probably worked a concert or at a bar/club.
Yeah!
It seems that its feast and famine. Half the male population is skinnier than their girlfriends and could easily be tented in their women's clothes and half are severely overweight that need to be moved with a whale sling.
Fair assessment. About half the population are fatsos hooked on food and other vices like heavy drinking or porn or gambling or anything that can interfere with dealing with life head on, and the rest are feminized wimps!
One person here sparks that debate. Wes, is an old man that takes steroids and goes about 150lb. Without steroids, Wes is 130-137lbs. He has the audacity to give "advice" to others when he clearly is a classic ectomorph with piss poor genetics. Nothing makes me more angry then someone trying to teach others when they have no clue what they are talking about and have done nothing but cheat to gain a few measly pounds. Talking to delusional people like Wes is like going to the Doctor, needing surgery and finding out he/she got their degree in a burrito factory in Mexico. Disgusting.
I am not familiar with the Wes guy, but don't discredit all ectomorphs. Some have built every nice bodies in their own right, such as Hamdulla Aykutlu, Frank Zane, and that cornball Helmut Strebl (spelling, right name?).
STAY POSITIVE...STAY WARM...GODSPEED EAST COAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Thanks! Did several hours of shoveling this weekend and went near stir crazy sitting indoors for the majority of it!
