Every time I see a fat person at the gym, I’m cheering for them so hard in my head. Mental high fives all day buddy.
I’ve never, ever seen a fat person get made fun of at the gym outside of like, highschool: You’re good.
highschool
I wonder if that’s the origin of that stereotype. Kids are jerks.
Thanks GiantFloppyCock, you’re the best!
GiantFloppyCock for the win!
He didn’t say he high fives with his hands.
I’m a fat guy currently going to a gym where nearly everyone is fit and built, and everyone has been nothing but kind and supportive. I’ve even had people come up to me and say they’ve noticed my progress and congratulated me (I’ve just hit 10% body weight weightloss if anyone’s interested).
Wholesome AF. Keep it up gym bro.
Always love hearing people found supportive gyms! Congrats on the progress and keep at it dude, soon enough you’ll be on the other side supporting those in your shoes now!
Right on broseph, keep those gains coming :)
I have literally never seen this at a gym.
What is this fanfic about fat people being bullied at the gym? This never happens.
Yeah, this literally never happens. Every fit guy in the gym is rooting for the fat guy to make it.
Been both sides and yup
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Who the fuck downvoted you? I’ve never encountered anyone bullying fat people in the gym before. Maybe these memers should actually go visit a gym.
That’s precisely why I’m not there. I’m too fat for the gym. There are women and Children present. I’d scar them for life.
ETA:
To clarify: This is not what happens, this is my own self conscious, self loathing behavior giving me excuses for not bettering myself. I am aware of my mental health problems, I’m just not dealing with them.
Literally no one makes fun of overweight people at the gym OP probably never stepped foot in a gym in their life. People are too busy doing their own thing to care. Plus gym goers are supportive people who would respect you for trying to better yourself anyway
Definitely was one of my biggest fears growing up. People absolutely make fun of people at the gym, just not to their face and normally not about their weight. They normally just make fun of your form and stuff like that but only when they’re slackin.
I might quitely make fun of the form of muscular gym bro who is displaying a smug attitude and clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, despite going there for the last five years. But never a fat person, never a beginner taking their first steps.
See what the fuck? People will swear up and down they’re not hateful, then eagerly indulge in hating “the right people”.
That guy didn’t lose his claim to your respect just because he showed what you considered a “smug attitude”.
Maybe his “smug attitude” is him refusing to let people like you drag down his day. Fuck.
I’m not dragging down his day. I’ll make a mental note like, wow his form is terrible and yet he poses for the camera lol (because of course he records it). I don’t know why you consider this hate.
You don’t see how making fun of someone is hate? Damn
As a middle aged fat person who has recently joined a gym I can confirm you are correct.
OP is lying, probably never seen a gym in person. This literally never happens. Many/most gym goers started overweight or at least nervous, intimidated. Everyone is very sympathetic for this situation and if anything, you will get encouragement and genuine help if you need. But most like, people will just mind their own business, unless you muster up the courage to ask them to show you how that machine works.
Aside from the fact that no sane person would mock you for trying to better yourself, you could also start smaller and just, say, go for walks or swimming at a local pool or other not-gym forms of exercise.
That said, diet is usually the biggest factor.
I can’t wait until we have good exoskeleton tech. You could reduce a person’s felt weight by 50%. Like those pull-up bar machines with a platform you can stand on. You can develop the muscles even if you’re too weak to do a single rep un-aided.
A great alternative would be an o’neill cylinder or a spaceship under thrust, so you could control the gravity. Like imagine a big o’neill cylinder that was for helping people escape the pit of morbid obesity. People could start out living at 0.1 g, just to sort of remember what it’s like to dance and jump and be nimble. Over the course of a year you could spin that cylinder a little faster and a little faster and the gravity would gradually increase, and people’s bodies adapt to it as it goes.
You could even go beyond 1 g. People could slowly and steadily increase it up to 1.5 or 2 g, and come back to earth strong as fuck.
The simplest way to condition your body is temperature. Just running cold water over your body provides physical benefits, including toward mental health.
Don’t let yourself slide. It only gets darker and darker if you let yourself go downhill.
I’ve never seen even the slightest bit of negativity at the gym. Come to think of it, I’ve seen almost zero negativity between any strangers on the street in like 10 years.
I’ll change that for ya
I’ve had a few “gym-bro” friends and absolutely none of them ever shamed or made negative remarks about a fat person at the gym. Personally I feel a sense of pride when I see someone relatively unhealthy doing any kind of exercise, it takes effort when you’re not used to it!
Yeah I never understood people who fat shame people at the gym… It’s like making fun of someone for being addicted at a rehab clinic, it’s like making fun of someone for not having a job at a job interview… It’s lack mocking someone for having a problem in the middle of solving said problem.
