I got the "you're too big" speech from the family today...

[io856]

Honestly the MOST important thing is symmetry and aesthetics.

You can have symmetry and aesthetics without size or with size.

according to who?

[Fatpanda]

We know it's not true, but the fat people think it is. They think with an in shape body all their problems in life would just disappear and they'd fuck topmodels on a weekly basis. And be honest, you thought that too before you started lifting.

i can confirm i think this way.

[mass 04]

Better than the "you're too small" speech i get from my girlfriend.

[CalvinH]

Not with my family.Granny loves a good pose-down at Christmas

[Captain Equipoise]

I get the same shit every year from my parents, mostly from my health concerned mother.... 'oh you shoulldn't be getting so big, I know you're using those 'steroids' and things, they're not good for you, what do you weight now.. 245, 250?;.. 'raises hands to god' make him stop...

For some reason this only happens around the holidays, or if I'm wearing t-shirts around them

[IrishMuscle84]

exactly what 99,99% of people think of wieght lifters, wether they are posers or low profile individuals.

I even happen to think thar about some weights lifters myself so.. Fact is people always compare themselves to each others, and if one has muscles and/or looks it doesnt mean he "has it all". This is true. Hapiness is not linked to how muscular or good you look. These peopel as out of shape as they are know it and they re right.

Most people also think that sporting muscles = trying to compensate for physical and psychological shortcomings, and again when i see people showing off constantly wether they re really muscular or not, trying to impress everyone with their lifts etc especially in the gyms which are filled with sad delusional and uterly vain people, i mean of course they trying to compensate for some reasons.

ABSOOOOLUTELY TRUE, about how "we compare ourselves with others" and "when people see someone muscular, thinks they are a millionaire.....and have everything." BUT the whole working out and having muscle and being happy, i disagree with that. Working out and being in shape, having muscle etc.....SHOULD make you happy and feel good about yourself, have self esteem, self-worth. You should be happy BECAUSE you feel good about yourself.

[_bruce_]

ABSOOOOLUTELY TRUE, about how "we compare ourselves with others" and "when people see someone muscular, thinks they are a millionaire.....and have everything." BUT the whole working out and having muscle and being happy, i disagree with that. Working out and being in shape, having muscle etc.....SHOULD make you happy and feel good about yourself, have self esteem, self-worth. You should be happy BECAUSE you feel good about yourself.

Yep - one's muscle, no matter how little or much, should act as an armor against unwanted physical and psychological intrusion...