The Dark King
Well-Known Member
Thats great but to ME its someone thats under 30. How old are you?
I think they're both close to 50. Feel free to correct me ladies.
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Thats great but to ME its someone thats under 30. How old are you?
Again pay attention please. I never said it was non existent just not the trend it is today. When I was in hs the only ones hitting the gym hard were the athletes. Now I go into the gym its packed with kids trying to get their GTL on especially is a lot more affordable. And i'll thank Jack Lalane before I ever thank Jane Fonda or better yet all the Bruce Lee movies that got me into martial arts at age five.
And I can tell that you're an old woman.![]()
shit like that is what makes people come at your neck
dont go cryin later
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But what about people who were in their 20's and 30's like you are now? If they were in the gym, would you have been aware of that? I know when I was in high school, I didn't care much what people older than me were doing.
Speaking of high school, I was the only one out of my friends who felt no pressure to be thin because it was effortless for me then. But every single one of my closest friends ate like little birds to try to stay thin. Why? So they would be attractive to guys. FACT.
Again pay attention please. I never said it was non existent just not the trend it is today. When I was in hs the only ones hitting the gym hard were the athletes. Now I go into the gym its packed with kids trying to get their GTL on especially is a lot more affordable. And i'll thank Jack Lalane before I ever thank Jane Fonda or better yet all the Bruce Lee movies that got me into martial arts at age five.
Yeah because I went to Gold's Gym(damn football player monopilized the hell out of the school weight room in college and hs) and I saw who was in there. Mostly 20 somethings and 30 somethings and the rare older gym goers. Now everyone is in there.
I'm more inclined to believe a lot of your friends wanted to be thin so other girls wouldn't make fun of them for being fat since that's where a lot of the need for looking good comes from in hs. Its not so much attraction as it is social survival imo opinion anyway.
You said, "You're from an era where fitness wasn't as a big as it is now." Huh? While Jack introduced it in the 30's-50's and credited with making Americans aware of health and ftiness, it REALLY caught on in the 80's. I was a young teen, but I recall it was THE huge booming life-style trend. Gym's were packed. Fashon reflected it. Songs were "dedicated" to it. (Hi Olivia Newton John, lol) Movies were made about it (Perfect with John Travolta).
If its all the rage now, why is so much of America not fit?

when did i get thrown in this i'm 32 hell i'm getting on up there lol. while i'm totally after liquidswords on this forum (yeah i said it) there are some very nice looking middle aged women on this forum.
I understand when young girls try to be thin to have a boyfriend but any woman over 25 who feels the need to be thin just to attract men and not because she wants to do it for herself is stupid. Now i dont buy menopause, hormonal imbalance or child birth being the reason for staying overweight because there are women in the same situation who are in shape. An in shape woman is not a deal breaker for me but i dont buy excuses for being overweight, you either allow yourself to gain weight or you dont.
You said, "You're from an era where fitness wasn't as a big as it is now." Huh? While Jack introduced it in the 30's-50's and credited with making Americans aware of health and ftiness, it REALLY caught on in the 80's. I was a young teen, but I recall it was THE huge booming life-style trend. Gym's were packed. Fashon reflected it. Songs were "dedicated" to it. (Hi Olivia Newton John, lol) Movies were made about it (Perfect with John Travolta).
If its all the rage now, why is so much of America not fit?
this thread, the back and forths and the continuing discussion of weight. this dusty ol middle aged pussy love's it
carry on
TDK and Iggy, were both of you made fun of at a younger age because of your physique??
Too fat?? Too skinny???
Ummm I was on full scholarship for basketball in college so dont even go there fool. You aint got shit in regards to your claims that women have it worse. Men have it just as bad as women...if not worse considering we actually have to worry about how much we have in our bank account.
TDK and Iggy, were both of you made fun of at a younger age because of your physique??
Too fat?? Too skinny???
For some reason it sounds like you have a very skewed perspective of the male/female social dynamic.
I attend a private health club and the only time it's crowded is in the mornings before 9 AM and after 5 PM. The rest of the time especially on the weekends its crickets. And here's the thing, when there is a good crowd, it's 70-75% WOMEN. They are the majority of the cardio classes and the ones on the cardio equipment like the elliptical machines, etc.
Most young guys come in with their boyz, maybe bench a little, do some dumbbell curls, play a couple runs of b-ball and jet.
Half the U.S. population is overweight. More young people today including 20 somethings are fatter than they ever were before. We didn't have this obesity epidemic in the 1980s.
One of the funny things I've heard original hip hop heads from the 1980s remark about is how there are sooooo many chubby/fat MCs in the rap game nowadays. Like a lot.
With the growing popularity in video games the last two decades, there are IMO more fat young men than ever before.
But there's no point in arguing this.
You and Iggy will never agree that women face more pressure to stay fit and phine for most of their adult lives than a man does.
How many men have their wives divorce them because they got too fat??
This is a real fear for some women.
My last example before I bow out.
Alec Baldwin looked like this in the late 1980s-early 1992.![]()
This is what Alec Baldwin has looked like for the most part of the last decade.
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He's a bigger star now than when he was lean and fit and a 'sex symbol'.
Kirstie Alley in the 1980s.
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She recently lost a huge amount of weight, but her H'wood career is over. It started to end as she got heavier.
John Travolta is another actor who became literally a bigger star the fatter he got, even though he used to look like this,![]()
Instead of this.
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A fat man has a much easier path in life than his female counterpart.