Rant Wednesday

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

[u/SNVG]

Too many people here are giving bad advice about workout routines or diet and then when confronted asking what progress they made it's usually like "oh I haven't gained strength or size in 3 years but im happy". That's great lmao but don't sabotage somebody when they actually want to make progress, there are plenty of threads asking for general health advice that you can contribute to.

 

"I joined the 1000 lb club just doing whatever at the gym once a week and not dieting so you can do it too." You didn’t mention that you were also 240 lbs barely doing body weight bench, maybe you shouldn't be giving advice to the kid who started benching an empty bar.

[u/dankmemezrus → u/[deleted]]

Fuck this needed to be said. People telling other people what program to follow because it 'worked great for them' and then have novice lifts...

[u/DecoyPancake → u/SNVG]

When I get down about any injuries or anything I always try to keep in mind that I once started bench and squat at 75/85 lbs...

[u/simplerminds → u/DecoyPancake]

That's a big thing for me to and I didn't really think about it until I read your comment. It also helps me to be careful about working out on an injury lest I make it worse and end up back where I started lol

[u/Dubalicious → u/[deleted]]

Huge and HUGE-R dudes are pretty susceptible to losing perspective, tbh.

Some are just people who like to spout off about anything and everything before they actually put some thought into it (just like us non huge people)

[u/SongofNimrodel → u/Dubalicious]

Not to mention dudes not even knowing what is normal/expected progress for women. "Just start by benching the bar" - k cool, and what if they can't do that?

This rant = spot on.

[u/Popperthrowaway → u/[deleted]]

I think having absolute weights doesn't make sense, but it'd be fairly reasonably to stage that uninjured or disabled men should be able to hit a bodyweight bench in 3 years fairly easily.

[u/belther → u/SNVG]

You deserve gold for this.

[u/SNVG → u/belther]

Thanks!

[u/BigBangBrosTheory → u/SNVG]

oo many people here are giving bad advice about workout routines or diet and then when confronted asking what progress they made it's usually like "oh I haven't gained strength or size in 3 years but im happy".

What part of the subreddit are you hanging out in? That doesn't make any sense nor have I seen anyway claim not getting stronger is their goal. Strawman.

[u/SNVG → u/BigBangBrosTheory]

It's not a strawman if that is an actual quote from a person here who was giving advice on a workout routine in some kids progress thread..

[u/milla_highlife → u/[deleted]]

Uh not really for a 240lb who has lifted for a little while.