Isn't this sort of self-defeating? I mean, who will the people of girth look to for motivation if they ban all the in-shape members?

I know for me personally, I'm an excellent example of what the morbies should aspire to at my gym. I'm basically doing them a favor whenever I work out. Want biceps like this? A chiseled chest and an 8-pack? Work hard and you can come close. I even go in on my non-training days to use the spa, and I "accidentally" walk from the locker room to the spa room without a shirt on just to give the morbies on the ellipticals some extra oomph to their workout.

No one has come up and said so yet, but I think its working. They all stare at me, and I can tell they're thinking, "Thank you, thank you for showing us what's almost possible for us"

I just think this "fats only" gym policy will be a huge failure.

MrEricSir: ph0rk: It is a private business - if curves can say "no men" then I don't see why a "plus-size friendly" gym can't say no skinnies.

Discrimination laws vary throughout the country. In some areas, Curves has to allow men to join.

Yeah - but what self-respecting dude wants to jazzercise with a herd of moo-moos? All right! I'm leaving your g'damned fattateria!

CheekyMonkey: If we can ban fat people from airplanes, it'll be a fair trade.

I weigh 305 and my butt fits in a plane seat just fine. However, my shoulders violates the airspace well beyond the armrests.

/I've got bruises from the drinks cart to prove it

Carn: bighairyguy: Carn: //I'm not fat I'm big boned

I prefer to be called "Massive-American".

hahahaha!

A joke I hear a lot is powerlifters don't have abs, they just have one huge power ab!

/my ab is very powerful
//beer makes it stronger

That's true for me... My gf asked me to grab something out of the floorboard while we were gout somewhere the other day, and I tried to reach for it and said "I can't get it, my ab is in the way."

/fat powerlifter
//5'8" 242 lbs

Need Help Soonish: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Isn't this sort of self-defeating? I mean, who will the people of girth look to for motivation if they ban all the in-shape members?

I know for me personally, I'm an excellent example of what the morbies should aspire to at my gym. I'm basically doing them a favor whenever I work out. Want biceps like this? A chiseled chest and an 8-pack? Work hard and you can come close. I even go in on my non-training days to use the spa, and I "accidentally" walk from the locker room to the spa room without a shirt on just to give the morbies on the ellipticals some extra oomph to their workout.

No one has come up and said so yet, but I think its working. They all stare at me, and I can tell they're thinking, "Thank you, thank you for showing us what's almost possible for us"

I just think this "fats only" gym policy will be a huge failure.

Pics or GTFO.

I was just kidding

Moonfisher: RandoGrando: In all the gyms I've been to I can't remember ever thinking that someone was too fat to workout there. In fact, the fatter you are the more impressed I am that you're even at a gym. It seems our societal rules about annoyance with fatties flips as soon as you enter a gym. I think that most skinny/healthy people feel this way but the fatties don't get the message. They still think they're being judged the same as if they were stuffing their faces on Red Robin's delicious bottomless fry basket.

Well no, not the same, but when I was busting my ass dropping 95 pounds by running around the block and hitting the gym, I was quite put off by the condescending "oh look at you, fat girl, good for you!" crap. I'm not a puppy or a child; I don't need praise, especially from strangers who are making quite a few assumptions about me. I know people who say those things think they are helping, but they are not. I just want to work out in peace. Talk to me like a normal human being.

ok. fine.
tits or GTFO.

TravisBickle62: Tat'dGreaser: Just go to Planet Fitness, I remember there being a very diverse crowd there regarding physical fitness level. The meat heads never bothered anyone, the incredible skinny women ignored everyone and the people trying to slim down came with friends.

Weight lifters never bother anyone at any gym, they are too busy lifting weights.

And posing / looking at ourselves in the mirror.

bighairyguy: TravisBickle62: Tat'dGreaser: Just go to Planet Fitness, I remember there being a very diverse crowd there regarding physical fitness level. The meat heads never bothered anyone, the incredible skinny women ignored everyone and the people trying to slim down came with friends.

Weight lifters never bother anyone at any gym, they are too busy lifting weights.

And posing / looking at ourselves in the mirror.

People who pose/look at themselves in the mirror are clueless gym rats. I wish my gym didn't even have mirrors.

RedGuru: malkore: psunbird92: At the gym I frequent, fatties are not usually the problem. The people who walk around like they've never seen a gym before are worse. Also, the dude-bros who compare their man tans, Affliction shirts and level of tightness, cliched tats, who usually sit on the bench press for 2 hours are the worse. Also saw a guy Tebow it up. Can't make that up. Speaking of which, gotta be there in 26mins.

The ass-clowns that think a squat rack is for bicep curls...that really grinds my gears!

Said ass clown stays in the squat rack for 20 minutes doing biceps curls for 5 reps with 2 minutes between sets

Just tell them to move. If they refuse, just mock them, "Look, I know its really hard for you to pick up that 65lbs barbell from the floor, but not nearly as hard as it is for me to get 500lbs on my back, so I tell you what, you let me use the rack for its indended purpose, and then between sets I'll pick up your bar and hand it to you so you can finish working those gunzz, ok?"

stewbert: Station: Gunny Highway: I was thinking about opening a gym for really weak guys such as myself. It would be like Curves only girlier.

It was called "Cuts for Men" and failed. Men are there to pose and impress women.

Actually, men are there to ogle women's asses while the women pose.

to be fair though, men are everywhere to ogle women's asses.
the grocery store, the doctor's office, the train, the zoo.
that's who are are and what we do.

Tat'dGreaser: TravisBickle62: Weight lifters never bother anyone at any gym, they are too busy lifting weights.

Oh I know but I always hear people complain about it. Ohhh those scary weight lifters are looking at me. No they are not. Those guys are dedicated to working out and that's it.

Boy, you're lucky they didn't kill you too. Or rape you, then kill you. Or kill you, then rape you. I mean, guys like that, what would stop them?