legs eleven
a friend of mine once turned up at my door with 2 free one-day gym passes to our local fitness connection gym. being a lardy fucker, i thought a day's free exercise would do me good, so off we went.
we were immediately started on circuit training, which i'm not overly fond of. after ten minutes on an exercise bike, i was almost ready to quit. i'm stubborn, though, so i decided i wouldn't quit until my mate did. however, she was more interested in working on the trainer than her figure, which meant that i was kept waiting every time i changed equipment, as she was chatting him up.
i don't know what it's called, but i wanted to go on that machine where you sit down and push weights with your legs. the trainer was, of course, still being drooled over by my friend but, the machine looked fairly straightforward, so i sat down and got stuck in.
after a couple of minutes, the trainer came up to me and gave me an odd look. "you okay on there?" he asked. "fine," i replied, "but can you add a bit more weight for me?" giving me that funny look again, he duly added more weight.
for the entire time i was on this machine, he kept throwing glances my way. after i'd finished, he came up and asked me how i felt. "great, why?" i responded.
"because the machine you made me add more weight to was set to its previous weight by a professional weightlifter. you must have incredibly strong legs!"
i didn't give him the reply i wanted to, which was: if you spend your life hefting my weight around, you're bound to get strong legs!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 9 Jul 2009, 17:20, 2 replies)

True enough
My sister's always been pretty big; when I went to the gym with her I was pretty surprised when she was quite happily leg-pressing around 200kg or something first time.
Fat covers muscle, it doesn't replace it*.

*_{Unless you don't actually move anywhere. Then I guess it does.}
(Sundayturkey has the biggest mug of tea, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 11:10, closed)

i do a lot of walking
i can't press much nowadays, not since i got a hernia :(
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 23:47, closed)