SumoSized:
So for as much as I talk about how hot I think muscle chub is I honestly haven't been able to go to the gym that much recently. I just got a second job in June and honestly that been eating up most of my free time.
Usually when I take long breaks from the gym I'll start to lose weight because my body starts breaking down the muscle. But this time my weight actually started going up, and oh boy I could definitely tell once I got to the gym.
I've completely cut cardio out of my workout routine, but even just using the machines was a pain. I can definitely tell most of the machines at my gym were made with skinny people in mind because even though I'm only 224 my shoulders still felt too tight in a lot of them, so I had to sort of wiggle my way in there. And even though there was massive overhead fans blowing I was still sweating like crazy. I swear I would practically never sweat when I was below 200 lbs but recently the Texas heat has gotten to me much more.
I'm curious if any other gainers/feedees have any going back to the gym stories they'd like to share
i was an avid gym jock for 20 years, and then i took a break "for a few months..." at the time i was with a ssbbw gf, and her enthusiasm for food and life rubbed off on me. went from 150 to over 200 pretty quick.
so i panicked a bit out how fast i had porked up, and how out of shape i was becoming. so i made a couple of attempts to return, several months apart.
the first thing i remember is how embarrassed i felt coming out of the change room for the first time in my too-tight gym sorts and a jiggling gut that my t-shirt could not camouflage. then the next thing was what you found - my cardio had gone to crap. a couple of minutes on the treadmill destroyed me, and the sensation of running with my gut, butt and love handles bouncing was just too much.
then i went to the weights, and after having been away for some months, having to reduce the size of the dumbbells i used to lift, and take plates off the bars just felt so humiliating. it was like i was a beginner again almost. at the end of my workout i sat on some mats to do crunches, and of course that was a disaster, too!
i was so discouraged from that attempt at working out (and so sore for days after!) that it was months before i would go back again. it was pretty much the same: months went by, i had packed on another 25 or 30 lbs, and i panicked. but the result was the same, only worse. i know what you mean when you say the machines are not made for big people - they are even worse for big bellied people!
i felt like a huge whale, everyone else in the place seemed to be a lean bodybuilder. one person even tried to encourage me and gave me tips, and i was just thinking, "i used to be like you!"
so after that humiliating experience, i quickly reconciled myself to enjoying my lifestyle rather than punishing myself at the gym.
