A Heavy Tire
An interesting thing happened to me at boxing class earlier this week. One of the activities that we do involves, as the instructor puts it, heavy tires. Most of the women use car tires or truck tires and, occasionally front tires from semi-trucks. Most of the men use, semi-truck tires, or tires farm machinery. Anyway, the class was crowded and all of but one the “smaller” truck tires the guys use were taken when me and another guy went to get ours. As we were looking at the one remaining truck tire and a tire that came off who knows what that was also laying nearby, he said “That’s a big tire. Why don’t you take it?” and grabbed the truck tire. So I ended up working out with a big tire. It wasn’t as mammoth as the ones that the use on combines but it was still quite a workout. If there had been more, I would have used a lighter tire; but I would have never have asked someone else to use a bigger one because I was too much of a wimp. I admit that men can sometimes be to macho for our own good; but this was a coed class. What man wants to show weakness in front of the women? Anyway, I’m curious what other guys would have done. Ladies, I’m also interested in what you think. Do you think that guys have too much testosterone?
I’m not sure how to respond. Need to see the tire. Since my fitness classes are always such a mixture of ages, though actually more females then males we are urged to not over do it. However, we are also reminded not to go tooooo lightly on ourselves.
Yes, I think men have too much testosterone. I think they need to cum more. Then they won’t be so hell bent on showing their manliness. They need more anything in their life, like how I help my fuck buddy out. (it helps me out too).
In my weightlifting class, I move more weight sometimes than the men do. On almost all tracks except biceps and triceps. I think it is good to challenge yourself too. I tend to always use the same weight. But when I tried going heavier, I did it pretty easily. In your situation, I think you just got stuck with the heavy one….I probably wouldn’t have asked someone to trade either….
Testosterone and estrogen are not distributed equally even among the ladies and gents. I am a perfect example of this phenomenon. We have seen masculine females that would do well at power lifting or as a defensive lineman (person). Just as on the other hand there are the thin boned and effeminate males with no Adams apple and no body hair.
That being said it boils down to how competitive a person is. I HAVE A FRIEND WHO WAS A FREE WEIGHT POWER LIFTING CHAMP until he blew out his body in a competition, 20 years of agony going about the normal every day task of lifting a gallon of milk is a steep price to pay for it. As a famous actor once stated “A man has got to know his limits”. Ladies that goes for you too
Rosie: You only get out of a workout what you put into it. Since I run a lot, I “coast” on the cardiovascular exercises even though I’m working as hard if not harder than everyone else; but I try to challenge myself when working upper body muscles that I don’t used as often. I don’t want to rip a muscle; but I don’t mind being sore the next day. It was a large truck tire like you might see on a dump truck or on the drive wheels of a semi on the interstate; but not like a cement mixer tire. Either of us could have managed it. The other guy just wimped out.
Kate: Guys are always hell bent on showing their manliness; especially when women are around. It may not really be the case; but all other things being equal; we assume; you guys will go for the male who is fitter. What’s strange is that we still compete even if we already have competed successfully for the attention of a woman. It was around lunchtime so I’d had sex in the past 12 hours and knew I was destined to probably have sex in the next 12 hours but I still felt the competitive urges.
Michelle: Guys are even more competitive with athletic women. I remember several years ago when a friend and I were in a road race (2-person marathon relay) and I was running right around the lead woman when I made the exchange. The first thing I asked him when we met up at the finish was “did you beat the woman”. He did. And, he knew exactly who I was talking about. Obviously there’s no disgrace in losing out to a top female athlete; especially when you’re just recreational runners. But we think it’s still better if you don’t
Carolina Jim and Wife: With men, their egos always make checks that their bodies can’t cash. We’ll be in misery the next day if necessary so we can look good at a particular moment in time. I’m not going to hurt myself or do any permanently damage; but I’m not going to lose if its close at whatever contest it might be. I’ll be the masculine one and California Girl can be the feminine one.
I am always asking males for help. I’m not a particularly muscular girl, rather the scrawny type. Anytime something heavy is around, I always end up getting help from guys. When I got my Xmas tree a few weeks ago, I got help getting it into the cart and into my car. Strong males are helpful. And a few eyelash flutters can sometimes help.
I’m all about equality, but I can’t lift heavy things.
Without actually being there, it’s hard to say…but in general I would have to say that in most cases guys do have too much testosterone and try to act too macho.
Having said that, wimpy guys kinda suck too so there has to be a happy-medium in there somewhere.
Anonymouse: We’d rather be your hero than nice but to scrawny to be helpful. I think it all goes back to the days when we had to hunt for food and the weak starved to death.
Rage: I think so too. But we’d rather go overboard than be seen as to wimpy. When in doubt, be macho.
Guys are competetive. In 45 years of judo practice I have never (except in a teaching situation) let anyone beat me.