You can convert pounds to kilos in your head
Your warm up is everyone else’s max
You love the sound of barbells and weight plates crashing to the floor
You are always covered in chalk dust
People move out of the squat rack when you walk into the gym
You don’t go out on a Friday night because you have to train Saturday morning
You grunt loudly on your last rep
You have massive glutes
Your friends call you ‘beast’
You are unbelievably bored on rest days
You never do more than five reps of anything
Unless it’s twenty-rep squats
You automatically stop what you are doing and shout encouragement when anyone in the gym is going for a big lift
You enjoy showing off your callouses
When you walk past a mirror you drop into a squat, just to check
You get nervous on heavy days
You have constant scrapes on your shins
Other people tell you their max lifts and watch for your reaction
You think football players are skinny, rugby forwards are normal size and strongmen are ‘big’
Other people think you are ‘big’
You care more about your max squat than your max bench
Your starter is everyone else’s main course
You have torn at least one item of clothing while training
Jackets that are allegedly in your size don’t fit you
You see a tyre and want to flip it
‘Sumo’ is a type of deadlift not a Japanese wrestling sport
You are more impressed by a big back than by a big chest
You always want to put more weight on the bar!
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Guilty as charged!
The torn clothing one annoying.
Only 5 of those don’t apply to me…
I constantly blow out the backside of my pants when I’m squatting ’cause of my big ass.
people know not to use the squat rack on certain days at certain times for me!
those same people also have at least 3 back up plans if they’ve had to shuffle their gym session and it landed at the same time as mine.
Max effort DL day – I am already nervous and keep getting adrenaline rushes. Haven’t even left work yet to hit the gym!
Know what you mean Dave!
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I tore a pair of running tights while squatting once. Lesson learned: wear baggy bottoms while squatting.
Haha, really? I’m the opposite, I tore a pair of jogging bottoms so now I always wear the lycra leggings when squatting! Disturbed to discover they are not immune either…
I also love “When you walk past a mirror you drop into a squat, just to check”. I thought I was the only one in the world who did that! Sometimes you have to make sure you’ve still got it!
And converting kilos to pounds and vice versa has became a survival skill for me, being new to the UK.