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Posted: 10/6/2006 9:05:13 PM | | I'm just like richard simmons. i'm trying to get a job on one of his cruises | |
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Posted: 10/8/2006 2:01:47 PM | i see this person working out....once say cool try to stick with it
see them lots of times say wow good for you
oh all the above speech is in my head | |
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Posted: 10/8/2006 4:48:35 PM | | It's great to see that guys have a positive attitude about overweight women working out. I have started going again and speaking for one who actaully has a thyroid problem (thank goodness for those little pills!) i got fat because I sat on my big butt and shoved food in my face. i am determined to rectify that but what annoys me are the women who walk around doing nothing but chatting and looking for guys.....geesh! | |
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Posted: 10/9/2006 1:10:14 AM | YAY -- a honest woman --- you rate up there big time with me ladysun - -- for facing the truth accepting it was your own fault and then doing something about it rather then just ****ing whining and trying to find a scapegoat
by the way --- serious gym guys dont have time for the chicks that walk and talk -- i wear a singlet to the gym that says " I'm not here to talk " | |
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fairyx
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Joined: 5/18/2006
Msg: 55 | |
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Posted: 10/9/2006 5:26:05 AM | Yahh ROO Giddy Up!
When you see your neighbour or a friend at the gym, you can’t pass by without saying hello or anything! People understand that you’re there for working out!
Over here, we don’t talk much except saying hello to the others for being polite and nice! We should try to work out our body and soul. To be just strong and big is not enough. We are human beings and should try to have nice personality and a nice body.
Back to the thread again: I believe it’s admiring when a person with some extra pound, works out at the gym, if they take it seriously with perseverance !:) | |
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dk66
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Joined: 9/10/2006
Msg: 56 | |
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Posted: 10/9/2006 1:41:57 PM | id say good on her.
id offer some advice and assistance if needed give her plenty of encouragement to keep going because theres too many people too willing to ridicule and belittle those trying to change there ways.
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Posted: 10/9/2006 2:30:15 PM | Ok I have joined a club after several years of being away from one because I thought Hey, I'll buy an eliptical machine and do it at home, ride my bike, buy the latest video, got the balance ball, go walking, but to try these things at home just didn't motivate me to continue, and life just seems to get in the way at home. I believe for allot of people that happens, and I believe for some they don't see the true self when they look in the mirror. There are many reasons why a person waits so long to decide to get back where they used to be. Not going to judge them for it either.
I used to work at a fitness center (coed) so I am not intimidated by the men looking because for the most part they are looking at themselves. as are the women, for the serious, it's an undertaking that is personal. There are those who socialize also, but I admit, I am sweating terribly after awhile, but hey, I am also competitive, so I hear theres a guy burning 600 calories after 30 mins on the eliptical to my 300 I am saying ok, "your on" buddy.... that is what I like about it the competitive spirit which will drive me on...
For the ones who are big, and starting out??? you gotta start somewhere and at least your there. I may not be big, but I have lost endurance that I had as a younger woman. So we all have our demons to battle.... may we all win in the end... | |
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Posted: 10/9/2006 5:11:43 PM | | At the gym I tend to stay close to a schedule and not jibber jabber and hold up the equipment for someone else. Keep my heart rate steady and stride to make my reps. I don't think I go there to meet people. Its where I use whats available to get the most out of my time there. I do scan the room and get a spotter sometimes. But as far as looking into someone elses regimine or results thats not what I am there for. I do get asked certain things or someone offers advice on a technique or exercise But most of the time its hey! Whats up! How many more reps you have? Are you using this? Excuse me! Thats about the extent of it! Glad they are there the more the merrier. Keeps the rates low. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2007 6:59:21 PM | | My reply to the original question is as long as they are trying I respect a person for it. The only thing that bugs the hell out of me is the person who complains and yet does not try. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2007 7:10:56 PM | As with most of the responses, I tend to not think too much about them unless they actually stick around. We all know about the "Resolutionists" who show up after christmas for 4 days and get a year membership and expect the weight to fall off so fast they walk around on a drop cloth.
But then again- I know a woman from my gym who is a trainer and quite a bit overweight... yet she has done so much research and knows so much about dieting and training... I have a lot of respect for her. Unfortunately, it's very difficult for her to hold off the weight- and it seems to come in waves. I'm very conversational with her and give her support where I can. I admire her efforts and her courteous demeanor with others.
The fat slags that amble around blabbing to people, sweating all over the benches without cleaning up after themselves and leaving weights where they lie... well, I have no time for them... just like I have no time for anyone guilty of such offences - I don't care how hot they think they are.
eno. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2007 8:52:54 PM | | I see the "400 lbs." scenario at my gym on almost a daily basis. My first thought (being honest here) is usually a morbid curiosity over how the person go to that point. Was it a chemical issue within their body? Severe overeating? Emotional issues? I just wonder on a somewhat objective sense without judgement. Then two seconds later I mentally applaud them for trying to do something about it. | |
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A.S.L
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Joined: 5/23/2007
Msg: 62 | |
| At the gym.
Posted: 8/11/2007 9:02:07 PM | well its always good to take care of urself ,, i go to the gym dialy and honestly I always hear myslef sayin keep it up when ever i see some one like that
however the 400 lbs woman would be intresting to see lol jk | |
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Posted: 8/11/2007 9:02:46 PM | Personally I think it's great. We are all on our own paths. I'm not there to hit on anyone but I will usually say hi, and then bye when I leave just so they kinda get the feel of belonging. There are regulars I see all the time, and now and then we break into some conversation.
But good for anyone who goes. No matter who you are, there is always someone bigger or smaller, or stronger or weaker than you, don't let it bother you, again we are all on our own paths. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2007 10:34:18 PM | Being a guy who's lost 200 lbs myself (no, thats not a typo), I've seen both sides from a guy's Point of view. I still got 70 to go, but i guess i can chip in on this.
If i see a woman that large in a gym, my personal 1st glance reaction is disgust, but thats because i was where they are, and i know how i felt about myself at that point, which was disgusted in myself. Right after that I'm proud they did the same thing that I did, which was do something about my situation other then thinking "it wasn't that bad" or "this isn't my fault" (Both roads and many more i went down).
I'd love to have the confidence to talk to girls i see all the time at my gym, but I'm vain and hypocritical enough that i think until i lose the weight i want, they won't be interested. So in roundabout way it's a motivation. | |
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Posted: 8/11/2007 11:24:32 PM | Funny UA... being in the position I'm in as a competitive athlete I feel it's tough to approach women in the gym. If it's not one thing, it's another... I think it's more of a state of mind, so work on conditioning your self confidence as well as your body otherwise you'll never allow yourself the privilege. Add to that the fact that they're seldom in the mood to be talked to at the gym- many are get in get out... So if you do approach one and it doesn't work out (pardon the pun) then don't take it as a slight against you. I know I park the image of an attractive woman in the back of my mind and use it as a way to break the ice when / if I meet them somewhere more appropriate (wherever that is these days... here?!).
Congrats on your substantial loss, however. I think both men and women could learn a thing or two about your commitment to the objective. I'll be interested to read your thread contributions elsewhere if you happen to be giving some people feedback on how you did it.
Eno. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 2:17:14 AM | I don't think I would even notice, I only signed up to a gym on friday and will be going monday but I am going for me and won't be looking at others unless it's to see how things work as I have never been before.
What other people are doing at the gym is their business not mine.
I was very overweight and lost my weight 1st now I'm going to the gym to tone up.
It's not just women that are overweight. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 5:58:46 AM | If I see a woman at the gym, and she is trying, then I am happy to see that she is trying to do something about her weight.
FYI, I am trying to lose weight, and watched a few of those programs on celebrities and fitness. The most surprising thing of all was that these programmes said that the celebs who just focussed on eating healthy lost all their weight. The exercise they did in their day was more than enough, and it was the food that was the problem.
This is the "Why are there no obese people in starving countries?" argument. Which I agree with. In starving countries, people still eat. But they eat the cheapest food, which tends to be the healthiest in the current climate. Also, a lot of doctors in previous eras said that the best way to ear is to NOT fill up, but eat until you are almost full, and then to not eat until you feel like you are starving.
Fruit, vegetables, and plain, unrefined home-cooked rice is a very healthy diet. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 7:42:07 AM | I too have been on both ends of the scale ( a few times UGH) and saying that overweight people just sit at home and stuff their faces isn't the answer. The overeating is a secondary cause to what is going on in their lives. SO that/those issues are the ones that need to be dealt with first before that person is even going to have the energy/mindset/motivation/inspiration to get out and exercise and change their lifestyle.
Now that that person has made the effort to get to the gym, I applaud them. Getting out in public is a HUGE ( pardon the pun) stumbling block. Keep in mind that everyone HAS to start somewhere and many o/w people have more health issues than JUST being morbidly obese. Perhaps they also have an injury they are overcoming or are continuing with physiotherapy and CAN'T pedal faster ( knee replacement or ACL tear??) Just an idea that we are not to judge without all the facts and yes I know that doesn't mean everyone, just gave a couple of other options to think about. I have to admit that when I was more o/w than I am now everyone at the gym was/is fantastic and encouraging, Especially the men. I appreciate it when someone comes over to correct/adjust something so I receive the best from my workout.
Question...What's with the average-sized women who come to the gym, hair all done up, DROWNING in perfume, cup of Starbucks in their hand, switch the TV stations to some talk show garbage and then take a stroll on the treadmill??? Now THAT makes me ill.
I too, am there to sweat like a pig and am also motivated by the other people WORKING out there. THAT is why I go, because I KNOW that I won't do it at home. I would love an exercise mentor, NOT partner, as when I get to the gym I don't want to talk either I just want to work my butt off to the best of my ability and push myself that extra bit each time. I love headsets, fans and water!!!!
Here's to us all getting better and more understanding as time goes by not older and more opinionated. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 8:19:32 AM | wow. lots of interesting responses.
people have no idea how hard it is to be a fat female exercising publically.
i read alot of inspirationsal articles about people who have lost weight, and oftentimes the person will discuss the name calling they receive when they exercise publically, and even, in one case, how one women was spit on and called horrible names related to her weight while she was walking outside. you would not believe how incredibly hard it is to come back from something like that and to keep going. it's kinda like you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
i currently work out for an hour at a gym, and i have made some supportive friends. however, i've also received stares and inappropriate comments. Trust me, just going to the gym is a huge victory and an act of courage, and staying there even more so. | |
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| At the gym.
Posted: 8/12/2007 9:36:29 AM | Some people you can not please no matter what you do. You get ridiculed for being fat, and then you get ridiculed for trying to do something about it. Lots of people who are obese do have it coming from something else, but genetics also plays a part in it, but that can be a different thread.
I've never received an inappropriate comment that i was able to hear at the gym. One thing about being overweight for most of your life is it gives you INCREDIBLY strong legs. When i go to the leg press, i can max out almost all of the machines and do anywhere from 6-15 reps at 400+ LBS. When people see that they tend to shut up or realize that i'm stronger/more fit then i look.
I'm usually at the gym for around an hour to 1.5 hours. But i'm actually planning on ceasing my current membership and going to Kapkido as the main replacement, and keep a membership at a local fitness center on the occasions i just want to "work out"
Thanks for the Comment's Eno, I'm already aware its mainly a mindset problem, a one of my larger friends have way more female friends and experiences then i have ever had, and he currently sits about 80 lbs over me. Going to the gym i think shows you care about your health and personal wellbeing, and thats a huge step for someone starting out.
I contribute something to other threads whenever i think i have something relevant, and don't mind if people message me to discuss the topic. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 11:54:37 AM |
I've never received an inappropriate comment that i was able to hear at the gym
this i believe. i think fat women, as compared to men, are overwhelmingly thought to be easy targets, and when i talk to some of my friends about what complete strangers have said to my face, they are in shock. Understand. the life of a fat person is very different from someone who is not obese (i have been thin). we cannot move as quickly or as much, so we might pull less time in the gym, but damn, we are there.It's taken me awhile to workout for an hour, but that was with the help of a personal trainer. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 12:21:32 PM | | I'm impressed everytime I see heavy people exercise. Only the ignorant would poke fun at them, but these people lack a few brain cells and are not worth talking to anyway. | |
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| At the gym.
Posted: 8/12/2007 4:44:56 PM | | I'm not near 400lbs, but I'm also not quite near 100lbs, and I do go to the gym, and don't leave until I am REALLY sweating. I'm not going to waste the money I'm am paying for the membership, plus I've let myself get too out of shape.. I have, since age six struggled with my weight, sometimes working harder than other times to get it off, and now I'm just at a place where I finally do want it gone because I know I let myself get this way. I do feel very insecure at the gym though... I often think "what if they think I'm not running fast enough" "what if they think I'm not trying hard enough" It's just all very hard, but regardless, I still go. | |
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Pucks
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Joined: 10/14/2006
Msg: 74 | |
| At the gym.
Posted: 8/12/2007 6:02:25 PM | I dont really think much about a bigger lady. There are lots of different sizes at the gym and im usually to busy thinking about what exercise or weight i am going to do next.
At times though, i do get distracted with all that nice scattered ass. Nothing like a phat booty to help you keep your mind off the workout while on the treadmill | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 8:18:48 PM | | It's commendable for someone to take up exercise or some other activity. If they are really out of shape I might wonder why they waited so long to tackle this, but hey, it's never too late. It is a sad statement of today's society though that they have to be encouraged to look after their health. | |
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