I am a porker but I don’t have fatty deposits round my organs, I know because I have had liver biopsies and scans regularly for some years.
I am still working pretty hard at getting my body fat percentage down though.
Haha, fat people.
Aren’t you packing a bit of a chunk yourself, Phrost?
Nice one!
Funny. I’m technically overweight (6’, 204lbs, 10% body fat) but I don’t actually look like I’m that heavy.
A fiend of mine was borderline obese a little over a year ago. I started bringing over to where I train, he started eating smart, and less than six months later he’d gone down from 37% body fat to 18%. He’s maintained himself there for a while now. I don’t think I could muster that drive to commit they way he did if I ever got THAT tubby.
Good initiative, bad judgment! Even though this thread is very hilarious, most folks would laugh with us - only to recede into whatever body/ mind harming habit that makes them feel better, when they’re alone.
Not all of the “porkers”, who sport a heavy body are mass quantity consumers. Some are people who have thyroid conditions, that screw up their natural weight regulators. Another set of “heavies” actually eat less/ starve themselves, all in pursuit of that ideal shape, that they will never attain (even on a crack-whore’s diet). Then there are those who hire personal trainers for an astronomical amount, only to be told to do “light weight - low reps” on every exercise - inner thigh machine, triceps kickbacks, bicep curls etc. (i.e.: 2 - 5 lbs. for 25+ reps), couple with 45 - 75 minutes of cardio on the treadmill…EVERYDAY!!! And all they get for the less than 30 days of training with this “great” trainer is shin splints, tendonitis, and a lighter “Pocket Mass Index”.
I am not a fat advocate, but I’m a little worn-out from having to play therapist to these folks - even after they start seeing the benefits of our group fitness classes/ personal training sessions, they still see themselves as the former fat-bodies they once were, because this pain goes deeper than most of us can imagine, with some folks.
Yeah, have to say I’m a little uncomfortable with this one.
Why couldn’t it be Lazy Sucks Month? I am by far the largest person in my cardio dance class, but I also work harder, jump higher, and sweat more than anyone in that class. My heartrate is through the roof, while the little Miss Skinnys are barely dampening their yoga tops, focusing on trying to make the moves look cute in the mirror. And I work hard in boxing too - I give it as much as I’ve got, and the result - my upper arms are now too big for a lot of shirts that otherwise fit. Sometimes, life’s not fair.
In the immortal words of Gary Larson:
“He slowly raised the bucket of lard to his lips and, with thick slurping sounds, drank.”
This sounds like something a whiny emo bitch would say… but it’s not. I know firsthand that it’s true.
But let’s say you can be fat in two ways: The unhealthy, lazy fat and the training as hard as you can and eating right, but yet not getting a sixpack-fat? Because there’s two kinds of slim: Crack-whore slim and marathon-runner slim.
Not having a 6 pack doesn’t make you fat
It’s not that serious is it. Fat can suck and we can still have a bit of compasion for fat people, we don’t have to form angry mobs and drag them out of all you can eat buffets for some sumary justice or anything. One of the ways I motivate myself to exercise and eat properly is to remind myself how much it sucked being several stone heavier than I am now and having twice as much body fat percentage. I gave my fat jeans to a charity shop collection last week as I only then acepted I am never going to go to fattytown again.
Saying that I am lookin forward to the video, a clip of me rolling at two Belfast throwdowns ago with Waqui can go in it if any padding is needed. I have escaped my shape quite a bit since then.
Hear hear JKDChick! Its pretty confusing to be told at MA that ‘I needed to put on weight’ (in fact I was weighed regularly and a few times not allowed to train when I dropped below a certain weight), then working out at the gym and envying the girls with skinny arms and legs while I just felt like I was getting bigger and broader from lifting weights etc. In fact just typing that makes me want to do 15 cardio sessions a week like I used to.
Anyway, Phrost…I know you started this ‘Sucks’ month with the right intention but you have to remember that its not as simple as ‘exercise is free’ and ‘people who are slightly tubby but fit are the exception to the rule’.
You know I’m fat, I’m fat you know it. 6’2" 260lbs, 22% BF. I prefer the MTB term Clydesdale…
LOL, this is going to turn into a Fat Pride month.
LOL!!! Fat Pride Month - what the fu-heck? I hope that’s not how I came across earlier.
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In my 6 month or so foray into the buninkan you know what really made me quit? I could ignore the niggling in the back of my head that the style might be less than effective, but I just couldn’t get past the obesity of the instructor. I mean jowels and that really unhealthy packed in around your organs fat.
Fat people can stay fat for all I care. I don’t take twinkies out of peoples’ hands because some of my friends are cardiologists who will have to pay for their kid’s college someday.
A guy in class last night coined the best “fat” euphemism I’ve ever heard.
“Twinkie Tumor”.
I do believe that an instructor should not only embody the leadership qualities and skills-sets of their particular art, but they should also exhibit a healthy lifestyle/ body type (i.e.: lean & mean, underwear model, beach bum, ex-running back, wrestler, etc.) that gives the appearance that the instructor - yet past his prime, is still actively striving for a healthy state of being…something other than fat-nasty, that his / her students can admire. Even if they don’t personally strive for a muscular-esque physique.
Fat does suck…I’m suing every fast food joint I’ve been to.
Ok, I feel I must weigh in on this subject.
I’m 6’3" 297lbs. I’m an avid weightlifter and Judo player and can play for a solid 45 minutes with minimal breaks, provided I’m properly hydrated.
Am I fat? Yes. roughly 22% body fat at last caliper measurement.
Yet what bothers me the most is that people look at my height, and my weight and immediately assume I’m some sort of tubby, flabby pile of cellulite. That is what truly bothers me.
Then their is the condescension. When I was a supporting member, and just making my transition from Wing Chun to BJJ I kept a training log on this site. When I began tracking my weight and exercise in my log the next post was and I quote “LOL Lardy Chunner!!!” I reported the post as offensive and was told by a moderator that it was not their job to sanitize my training log.
Fortunately a different mod had a different view and removed the post.
What is the moral of this story?
I work out, I train, I COMPETE which is something many on this site can not say yet when people look at my weight and height the first thing they think of is I’m fat.
Just sad, thats all.