Put up or shut up
Nothing irritates me more than someone who talks a lot of smack without backing it up. I have a lot of confidence in my abilities. If I think I can do something, I’ll be the first one to let you know. However, if it comes to something that I know nothing about, I am the most humble person in the world. I would never talk a big game about snow boarding. However, I would talk a big game about martial arts. On Friday, someone who talks a big game…constantly…actually got called out on it. One of the gym’s trainers and I are always going back and forth about how much we lift: “I could lift more than you. ” “Well, you don’t lift with a pause”.
Yadda Yadda Yadda, back and forth. Trainers are some of the most arrogant and cocky people I know, company included. Unfortunately it’s the nature of the beast. If you don’t talk about yourself, you don’t make money.
I just finished working up to roughly 90% of my max on the bench press at 315. I was going through a mock meet, i.e. pausing on my chest for a 1 count then pressing it back up. The trainer who talks the most smack (I’m going to call him Johnny Big Boobs) came over and started doing what he does best. “Come on, when are you going to put some weight on the bar? That is my warm up weight.” So I replied back that I would like to see him press the weight just as I did, i.e. butt, head and shoulders have to remain on the bench, bar must be paused at the bottom on the chest and you must lock it out.
So Johnny Big Boobs laid down on the bench, with no warm up, after just coming in from riding his motorcycle into work, and popped out 1 rep with a pause, with no problem.
I was so pissed.
I no longer can make fun of Johnny Big Boobs, and he can now talk all the smack he wants about having a bigger bench than me. That’s how it works, people. If you’re one of the those people who talks a lot but is always “hurt” or “tired” maybe you should put your money where your mouth is.
“Define yourself, not by how loud you talk, but how hard you fight”.
I still have him in two other lifts, though 
