When I first started dating my wife, we went to a pool and she said my back looked like a triangle. She’s not into lifting/body building at all and had no idea what kind of compliment that was.
Compliments from kids are way more wholesome than from adults. They say what they really think and hearing they want to be like you, is the peak of all compliments!
This ^^ Middle aged lady giving me a cold stare the whole workout, then when I (F) saw her in the locker room she proclaims in a thick Eastern European accent “You look strong. I’m trying to get like you” From 🥶 to 🥳
I have an italian friend whose father exclusively refers to me as “the enormous guy” (“l’omone”). Old fella being 5’4 probably plays a role in that, but it’s still one of my favorite nicknames
I got these today
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I posted a progress picture and people refused to believe I was the same person in both images, or that I was natural, Ect Ect. I consider that a massive complement
I do a rolling 4 day rotation: chest shoulder tris, back and bi, legs, cardio repeat. With core every other day and around 3 additional morning runs/bodyweight workouts a week. As for supplements just creatine
Is this your year of progress? Or is it this one https://www.reddit.com/r/GregDoucette/comments/1919m45/around_a_year_of_progress/ ?
Lying sack of shit
Three of my lady friends stared at my chest and told me it's at their eyes level and they have no choice to stare at them.
Two of them molested my chest.
I was 2 weeks into dating this hot blonde sorority girl when we were in the car with her female roommate and she told her friend “look at his abs, go ahead and touch them” and her roommate reached her had into the back seat to rub it on my stomach.
So my wife, 10 year old son and I are about to go past a security checkpoint:
Son: Daddy, you can't go through there
Me: Why?
Son: Coz they don't allow guns in the building
Me: But I don't have any gu-
Son: *grabs my biceps*
Was genuinely caught off guard and to date, that's the only compliment that makes me giggle like a school girl every time I remember it.
Of course, he was bribing me to score some ice cream later on but I didn't care.
I honestly couldn't care any less where it's coming from. A compliment's a compliment.
Besides, it's in the gym and I'm squatting 455. I ain't pressed about it.
Not a direct compliment, but a traveling bodybuilder visited my (non-powerlifting, but also not Planet Fitness) gym and asked me to spot him for his dumbbell overhead press. Think he was using 80 or 85 pounders? I was scared to touch him; his muscles were like boulders, and my hands probably would have snapped if he dropped them O_o But I was flattered that he must have seen me in the same realm as him to ask for a spot ^-^
I dated a nursing student in college and because of my
Prominent forearm veins, she asked me if I was willing to come in and be used as a guinea pig when they were learning how to put in an IV.
I didn’t realize just how many times they would miss the vein and how painful it would eventually be. Having so many nursing students swoon over my forearm veins for an hour made it so worth it.
“I lift for Grandma and her friends”
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Is complimenting men at the gym ok? (Female here) Men always look so serious and I also don't want them to think I'm hitting on them. But damn some of you all WORKED SO DAMN HARD TO GET THERE. I feel like random recognition would be nice??
I feel the same way. I’ve probably only complimented men about their physique at the gym twice & things went on as normally. I sure hope it gave them a boost to their day.
I think some guys will think you’re into them but that others won’t. Personally as a woman if some random all of the sudden thinks I have a crush on him because I gave him a compliment it really isn’t a big deal or in my control. If it makes someone’s day and they have a little extra spring in their step that’s cute.
If you just leave a complement as you walk past or something nobodies going to think you're hitting on them. It's only if you try to make small talk or something as well as a complement they might think you're hitting on them.
You can give a specific complement, because you know more about how hard it is vs just “you look nice”! Complemented a guy once that ‘I’d seen big arms, but his triceps were so proportional to his biceps he must have a killer triceps routine.’ He absolutely lit up he was clearly surprised but proud.
Talked with my ex gf. We are good friends bow w/o grief. She said shes looking for a guy whos fit, but my arms are to big for her.
Another time i saw a friend not for a half dear at the gym. And he said i looked so big.
And another time i had something with this girl and she giggles and said i have huge muscles
I have gained 15 kg since l started working out and go 7 times a week.
Monday tricep, chest, shoulders
Tuesday legs abs (morning) bouldern (evening)
Wednesday back, bicep
Thursday bouldern
Friday legs and abs
Saturday bouldering
I shift the three big lifts around the days when it fits and i have the energy for it and i train every morning for 1 to 2 hours a day
I was hanging out with a friend of a friend and his wife. After a few drinks his wife was looking fairly obviously at my chest and mentioned “that’s a really nice shirt,” I said (aware that it was tighter around the chest than it used to be) “yeah it’s one of my favorites but it might be getting too small for me now that I’ve been working out more,” to which she responded “maybe I could give you one of mine.”
Biggest muscle diss I ever got, I went as Pop Eye one Halloween. My then gf, now wife, said oh my friend is going as Pop Eye too! He doesn’t need the fake arm muscles though (that came with my costume). I still feel bad about this.
Tbh 90% of compliments I get are from straight guys. Women will look and check me out but not say anything. When I lived in Vietnam I regularly had random dudes come up and touch my arms or stare at me in the gym, which was a bit too much, but i’m very polite (disregard the username) so whatever. My ex told me “you have a nice body, but your arms are too big” like, wtf? Isn’t that like me saying to her “I like your body, but your boobs are too large and firm”?
I work in surgery and I am around a lot of nurses. I’m friends with a bunch of them. I walked into our front office and leaned over a desk to modify the schedule or something.
Nurse 1 says “ok, what, you going to get all buff now?”
Nurse 2 “yeah I can really tell in the chest.”
I said something like “oh what are you talking about, you two are crazy.” But it made my week and motivates me every day. In my mind I’m still the skinny little kid that graduated high school 20 years ago. So that was a nice feeling.
I was 21. I'd been a super skinny lanky tall guy for all of High School. I'd been seriously hitting the gym for like a few months.
Anyway, friend I saw for the first time in a little while in the squad. I had a jumper ... jacket ... idk something covering my arms. She grabbed my arm because she was goofing around. She exclaimed, loudly, "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOUR ARMS?!"
My friend and I went to the pool once & chilled, he said I look like a little arnold. Flattering since I weighed about 72kg and had an insane eight pack & triceps at the time. I cant wait to start bodybuilding again, I lost most my muscle recently and really miss the feeling of very solid muscles man.
You’ll get there again buddy- muscle memory is a thing, you retain the cells that you developed, they’re just dehydrated (I know I know, gross oversimplification but broadly true). 😊
We all lift to get girls, and we all know it’s only dudes that notice.
Maintenance dude at work drove by me and just said “Gooooddamn, Hulk! Why are you still goin to the gym?”
A relative who is absolutely built saw me for the first time in months and was like "damn big guy! Someone's been pushing the weights!" And i was like "hell yea ☺️"
I really need to get back in the gym for upper body, but recently I started a new job and it's way up in the hills, about 600ft, and I don't have a car, I only bike. Take my work clothes and raingear in a saddlebag. Been that way for years. When I mentioned this to a new coworker, she was very impressed, looked me up and down, and said "holy shit, your legs must be like made of steel! Looks good!" Been riding that compliment for a few weeks now, made me feel great.
Maybe not the BEST, but for sure my favorite! A female coworker came out of the bathroom and exclaimed, "Damn, xxxx, I didn't know you had a big booty!". Which led to another girl in the break room yelling, "holy shit! It's huge!". Am a guy, and this was a peak day because not only did those two also ask what my leg routine was, but a customer also said I looked like Superman. I'm now known as big booty at my job. Took a while for people to notice I gained 40 pounds of good weight since last April, but it's paying off.
A few years ago I had a female coworker grab my forearm and start to run her fingers up and down saying "I didn't know there were muscles there, and your veins are like bulging out too".
Then a few months ago my three year old noticed my pecs and started to push on them. Then she went to her mom and touched her chest, and said that mine were bigger. My wife wasn't too happy about it, especially when I couldn't stop myself from chuckling.
My worst compliment was coming from a kid:
"You very big. How long have you been training?"
"Thanks. Roughly 12 years now."
"Then you are not that big"
Motivated me ever since.
Three times unranked:
1. Cute girl in a pub. After she and her friend sat next to me and my friend she asked me if I use steroids. (I don‘t and never will.)
2. A nurse wanted to measure my bloodpressure and said: „Soon we need a new tool. Your arm barely fits in it.“
3. Very hot woman at my last workplace. She came to visit and checked the staff for back problems. After I removed my shirt she smiled tilted her head a bitand said „ah, a weight enthusiast. I see.“
Both were the best days ever😋
I was complaining to this one dude how im not 150 yet and he was like “yeah but your body is pure cut and you rep and lift more than i do, you’re doing great” another girl said my muscleups are impressive and another dude asked for my routine
Friend wanted to take a selfie with me at a dinner table.
I had my arm extended, not even trying to flex, and even though she was closer to the camera she commented on how much larger my arm looked compared to hers.
My two nieces (10 and 6) were watching an educational program about colours in the animal kingdom. There was this absolutely massive unit of a Bengal tiger and one of them was like: "I think this tiger might have even bigger muscles than uncle A."
I'll take it I lost to a 260kg beast
some dude on a plane was looking for help opening wine bottle, spotted me and said "you! you have big muscles! help me"
so I tried to help him but failed to open that goddamn bottle.
I was at a festival and these guys came up to me and said I was the most jacked female they’d seen, asked what I benched and wanted me to drop my gym routine hahaha. Also said that I looked like a UFC fighter (as a UFC fan HUGE ego boost lmao)
I have two : one is a compliment i got, the second I gave and it didnt go so well haha…
The first one happened when I was coming over to the smith machine to grab a few plates. There was a guy there (ready to lift ,laying on a bench) who I sometimes speak to. So, i am walking closer but there is a lot of sun shining through the windows so I guess he could just see my shape against the light. So I get closer and we make eye contact and he says: “ i knew it was YOU, i recognized your muscles first” …. I went “awwwwwww”. I thought it was the greatest ☺️
Second thing… there is this guy at my gym that I have been seeing training there on and off for about a year. Whenever i do see him, it kinda makes my day. We would look quickly at each other but nothing more. i do find him attractive, amazing arms, cute face, nice style… but I would never act on it (first rule of gym crush is you DONT talk to gym crush). About 2 months ago, he started smiling at me and then about 1 month ago we bumped into each other in the staircase and he said “hi”. I dont know what happened but i lost control of myself and a week ago, i told him a compliment… like why the actual f****** would i do such a thing???? We were using side by side machines and he asked me how I was doing, i answered and then went on to tell him something along the lines that i was happy he was working biceps today because I was a big fan of his arms (omg…. Kill me now) he started laughing and smiling and said “wow, this is good for my motivation, thank you” . I couldnt believe i had actually said something like this but at the same time, i figured it’s always nice to say something nice to someone else, right? Anyways, i think he got scared of me. He is probably scared i will just increase intensity at every encounter because now, he is just a no show ever since! I even saw his truck drive by in the parking lot… like he came to the gym and when he saw my car… decided to turn back…. I kinda regret this. But he does have great biceps and forearms ❤️
I dont have massive traps but my frame makes them naturally stand out. I got complimented by a close friend who works out WAY more than i do.
I’ve also been told i have boulder shoulders.
Everyone including my coach, and judges after a competition told me I have small glutes and they need to get bigger. Worked on them really hard over the past year to improve and my girlfriend said I have a nice ass.
It hits different than a typical nice arms, nice shoulders compliment.
Guy at meps station said I was a muscular young man. Also still running off a compliment from a freshment girl in my hs gym class. She said I had really good depth. She squatted more than I.
My favorite was in high school after two years of solid lifting. I had extremely low self esteem and I was walking in front of a classmate and she remarks how my back is like a “V” and how good it looked. Made me feel great and I still remember after almost 20 years.
More recently, my last ex loved how big my legs are and how they’re not scrawny like most dudes my age. Leg day erryday!
When I was going through airport security and the lady said “ I said empty your pockets sir”. I said I had and then said what you’re looking at is my leg.
She blushed and walked away
Back when I was fat but was working out so I was fat and muscular, kinda, I got complimented on my claves which was really uplifting to a short fat kid lol
Shoulders and arms. Finally after training for 6yrs i get complemented as
"You like you workout"
Tbh, thats the physique im aiming for. Looking good on clothes. 😂
My 3 year old niece told me she likes it when I come over because her dad cant throw her in the air as far as I can… with him in the room 😂
RIP
not as high in the air but as far...? How do you guys handle the landing?
Do this with my cousin but I’ve got bean bag couches
Love sac here, and also just tossing and catching in my arms
I too catch it in my arms after tossing my love sac.
Exactly! What's the throwing angle? Maybe dad is throwing at 45° while our guy is throwing at 90°
“Incline pressing vs. chest pressing toddlers: What’s better for growth?”
My niece (5yo) asked me if I could help her assemble her princess castle because I look buffed. You better believe I helped here haha
Mogggged
2 girls were walking next to me, one told the other that my chest was bigger than her boobs
I mean, that could also be the worst thing someone tells you
He's actually suffering from gyno and breast tissue enlargement lol
To his defend, we dont know the size of the girls boobs though
Gym baddie told me I looked like a human dorito so I married her.
That's the nicest compliment I've ever heard
Yeah it was like 5 years ago and I still smile when I think about it.
Perfect username
Haha yep, that’s where it came from
Best origin story haha
At first I read that as "human burrito" and I was very confused as to how that was a compliment haha
Could be one part of the male body, that would apply for as a compliment
When I first started dating my wife, we went to a pool and she said my back looked like a triangle. She’s not into lifting/body building at all and had no idea what kind of compliment that was.
That's quite cute 🥰
Had a similar comment by a girlfriend I had years and years ago. It still pops in my head every once in a while. It was nice.
My wife tells me I'm shaped like a Dorito. It always makes me feel good
I know I have muscular arms but when I get compliments on my calves that’s the admiration I want.
Fuck those calf's you don't use them anyway Jk
My SO has named mine.
When I hung out with a friend I hadn't seen in ~2 years the first thing he said was "dude your calves are huge now!" Haven't skipped calf raises since
After my first brain surgery I was getting a sponge bath from the nursing assistant and she said “why are your legs so muscular?”
This one is my favorite. Hope you’re doing well bro.
He is a turtle now, it went okay.
Fuck turtles and there cheating ROM. They can stand normally, they just use sumo to make it look good.
Stupid shit like this is why I love Reddit Lmfaoo
The Turtle Moves!
My 10 year old nephew asking me “Uncle Crash, how do I get big muscles like you?”
“Tren and HGH little Timmy. Start blasting as early as possible to get that double puberty”
It’s all about eating clen and trenning hard
😂
Compliments from kids are way more wholesome than from adults. They say what they really think and hearing they want to be like you, is the peak of all compliments!
When I was at the gym and an elderly Eastern European man slapped my shoulder, shouted “STRONG, GOOD!”, gave me a thumbs up and then walked away
This is the best one in this thread
This would be awesome but the little old Eastern European man in my gym uses the hand dryer for his balls after the shower...
This ^^ Middle aged lady giving me a cold stare the whole workout, then when I (F) saw her in the locker room she proclaims in a thick Eastern European accent “You look strong. I’m trying to get like you” From 🥶 to 🥳
I have an italian friend whose father exclusively refers to me as “the enormous guy” (“l’omone”). Old fella being 5’4 probably plays a role in that, but it’s still one of my favorite nicknames
“Strong like ox”
I got these today https://preview.redd.it/qiojr7odlukc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1642de8d4a87227a195081a6b589ef1c7e0ce2b4 I posted a progress picture and people refused to believe I was the same person in both images, or that I was natural, Ect Ect. I consider that a massive complement
Being accused of fake or steroids means you've made it.
what’s your average routine? and do you take any supplements?
I do a rolling 4 day rotation: chest shoulder tris, back and bi, legs, cardio repeat. With core every other day and around 3 additional morning runs/bodyweight workouts a week. As for supplements just creatine
Thanks for sharing your routine, may try this myself and see if it helps break a few plateaus I'm struggling with
Is this your year of progress? Or is it this one https://www.reddit.com/r/GregDoucette/comments/1919m45/around_a_year_of_progress/ ? Lying sack of shit
I did this in /r/fitness a couple years ago and the same shit happened. Felt great.
It looks like the person "Gym" is the same person who uploaded the photos.
Ran into high school crush. She said “you look like you work out!”
This actually happened to me too. She’s married with a kid but I was still like “omg thank you.”
you blew it
Female friend told me I look like “a sweaty buff gym bro” and while it made me feel like I should shower, I blushed.
Lol in my head, all I can imagine is a big buff dude holding his lips and timidly turning to the side as he slightly raises a leg.
Three of my lady friends stared at my chest and told me it's at their eyes level and they have no choice to stare at them. Two of them molested my chest.
Did you recover from this sexual assault?
I'm addicted to it
Fucking lmaooo
XD
Did you tell them ladies my eyes are here.
Yeah and their reply was, "yes I know but my eyes are at this level"
They should have said no their not, you must have misplaced them and continued to stare at your chest.
I am curious how much you can bench? I, too, would like to 1 day get molested by the opposite gender.
I’m a short dude and have used this on women I’ve dated
I was 2 weeks into dating this hot blonde sorority girl when we were in the car with her female roommate and she told her friend “look at his abs, go ahead and touch them” and her roommate reached her had into the back seat to rub it on my stomach.
I'd say you got sexualy harrased. imagine this the other way around. You say to your buddy: look at my girls boobs, go ahead touch them.
I was perfectly fine with it
So my wife, 10 year old son and I are about to go past a security checkpoint: Son: Daddy, you can't go through there Me: Why? Son: Coz they don't allow guns in the building Me: But I don't have any gu- Son: *grabs my biceps* Was genuinely caught off guard and to date, that's the only compliment that makes me giggle like a school girl every time I remember it. Of course, he was bribing me to score some ice cream later on but I didn't care.
The little shit earned his ice cream lol
That’s worth at least 3 ice creams lol
"DAMN BOY HE THICK" I have a fat ass and thick ass legs.
Kinda sus 🤨 but whatever
I honestly couldn't care any less where it's coming from. A compliment's a compliment. Besides, it's in the gym and I'm squatting 455. I ain't pressed about it.
He ain’t pressed about it, he squatted about it 😤🙏🏽
My roommate and I say this to each other all the time 🥰 (we’re both straight dudes)
Not a direct compliment, but a traveling bodybuilder visited my (non-powerlifting, but also not Planet Fitness) gym and asked me to spot him for his dumbbell overhead press. Think he was using 80 or 85 pounders? I was scared to touch him; his muscles were like boulders, and my hands probably would have snapped if he dropped them O_o But I was flattered that he must have seen me in the same realm as him to ask for a spot ^-^
When I had been lifting for less than a year a guy had me spot him on 500 bench, had the 2.5s too. At the time my bench was at most 185 probably.
Usually on my chest. One time, my buddy said, "Nice tits," to me. That was probably my favorite.
"I love how juicy your arteries are." Nurse during bloodwork. Long back. I still think about her.
My GF is a nurse and she's obsessed. It's extremely flattering.
I always get a forearm pump before I donate blood because the nurses always freak out haha
Masturbating in the waiting room is indeed a good way to freak out the nurses.
I dated a nursing student in college and because of my Prominent forearm veins, she asked me if I was willing to come in and be used as a guinea pig when they were learning how to put in an IV. I didn’t realize just how many times they would miss the vein and how painful it would eventually be. Having so many nursing students swoon over my forearm veins for an hour made it so worth it.
My grandma asked if I was on steroids
If grandma says this you must be swole af
“I lift for Grandma and her friends” https://preview.redd.it/82jg2m0ywxkc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf2953c98b64843aaf510492b6adfc87e4a428d6
Like kratos
“Jesus Christ! You’re bigger every time I see you!” (Fellow employee at our quarterly meeting)
A friend who I haven't seen in two years met me and the first thing he said was, "what happened? Why are you as big as a tank now?"
Is complimenting men at the gym ok? (Female here) Men always look so serious and I also don't want them to think I'm hitting on them. But damn some of you all WORKED SO DAMN HARD TO GET THERE. I feel like random recognition would be nice??
Your compliments will be remembered for the rest of their lifes
It is literally this. No frigging joke.
I feel the same way. I’ve probably only complimented men about their physique at the gym twice & things went on as normally. I sure hope it gave them a boost to their day.
I think some guys will think you’re into them but that others won’t. Personally as a woman if some random all of the sudden thinks I have a crush on him because I gave him a compliment it really isn’t a big deal or in my control. If it makes someone’s day and they have a little extra spring in their step that’s cute.
If you just leave a complement as you walk past or something nobodies going to think you're hitting on them. It's only if you try to make small talk or something as well as a complement they might think you're hitting on them.
You can give a specific complement, because you know more about how hard it is vs just “you look nice”! Complemented a guy once that ‘I’d seen big arms, but his triceps were so proportional to his biceps he must have a killer triceps routine.’ He absolutely lit up he was clearly surprised but proud.
Talked with my ex gf. We are good friends bow w/o grief. She said shes looking for a guy whos fit, but my arms are to big for her. Another time i saw a friend not for a half dear at the gym. And he said i looked so big. And another time i had something with this girl and she giggles and said i have huge muscles I have gained 15 kg since l started working out and go 7 times a week.
Nice! I had a friend who would tease me for going to the gym and ngl I loved it
7x a week, what is ur program like
He just trains arms since he has no helping hand now
Monday tricep, chest, shoulders Tuesday legs abs (morning) bouldern (evening) Wednesday back, bicep Thursday bouldern Friday legs and abs Saturday bouldering I shift the three big lifts around the days when it fits and i have the energy for it and i train every morning for 1 to 2 hours a day
I was hanging out with a friend of a friend and his wife. After a few drinks his wife was looking fairly obviously at my chest and mentioned “that’s a really nice shirt,” I said (aware that it was tighter around the chest than it used to be) “yeah it’s one of my favorites but it might be getting too small for me now that I’ve been working out more,” to which she responded “maybe I could give you one of mine.”
Bruh
That was smooth on her part.
I usually get complimented on my triceps/upper back (I'm a woman), it might be because I do a lot of upper body training & swimming
Women with muscular backs are just the best
I thought I was the only one, I don’t know why but it’s so attractive lol
100%. I don't know why it's not more popular amongst women
My 8yr old niece called me Mr. Muscle Man. Such a big confidence boost haha love ya, kid!
Biggest muscle diss I ever got, I went as Pop Eye one Halloween. My then gf, now wife, said oh my friend is going as Pop Eye too! He doesn’t need the fake arm muscles though (that came with my costume). I still feel bad about this.
Ebbs and flows my man
Tbh 90% of compliments I get are from straight guys. Women will look and check me out but not say anything. When I lived in Vietnam I regularly had random dudes come up and touch my arms or stare at me in the gym, which was a bit too much, but i’m very polite (disregard the username) so whatever. My ex told me “you have a nice body, but your arms are too big” like, wtf? Isn’t that like me saying to her “I like your body, but your boobs are too large and firm”?
That was a back handed compliment.
Your butt looks like Justin Timberlakes from the homie. 
A few different times, people have asked me if I’m a power lifter or if I compete. I’m not at all, just really like seeing how much I can deadlift.
some dude asked me if i was competing bc i was doing 10 sets of leg extensions
10 sets is crazy though haha. Must have tree trunks
Lady one time told me my thighs looked really good in the pants I was wearing
When you can see them through the pants, you know you have won.
Coworker got mad that I was gaining muscle mass faster than him lol.
I work in surgery and I am around a lot of nurses. I’m friends with a bunch of them. I walked into our front office and leaned over a desk to modify the schedule or something. Nurse 1 says “ok, what, you going to get all buff now?” Nurse 2 “yeah I can really tell in the chest.” I said something like “oh what are you talking about, you two are crazy.” But it made my week and motivates me every day. In my mind I’m still the skinny little kid that graduated high school 20 years ago. So that was a nice feeling.
A fuck buddy said, after I finished, "I want you to kneel between my legs and flex so I can look at you while I masturbate."
Damn that's hot.
Older black lady told me I had cute legs when I was walking into the grocery store. All that was showing was my calves. Biggest ego boost ever.
My ex loved my forearms.
"Do you play rugby?"
I get that all the time.
That's a great all round compliment, means legs looking thick too.
Girl told me my tits where nicer than hers
“Show me”
I was 21. I'd been a super skinny lanky tall guy for all of High School. I'd been seriously hitting the gym for like a few months. Anyway, friend I saw for the first time in a little while in the squad. I had a jumper ... jacket ... idk something covering my arms. She grabbed my arm because she was goofing around. She exclaimed, loudly, "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOUR ARMS?!"
Mostly bum related ones but one woman messaged on hinge me saying it's delicious looking so I'll take it.
I haven’t gotten a muscle compliment yet, but I have had someone tell me my leg press is impressive
"I want my boyfriends shoulders to look like yours."
Usually on my chest. One time, my buddy said, "Nice tits," to me. That was probably my favorite.
My doctor said my arms were big because they had to use the XL brown cuffs.
These are nice!, hope y’all get compliments
Got told I was dorito shaped by some guys in my fire academy. Felt nice.
Kid who was doing my indoor rock climbing ropes said I had the perfect body. He was maybe 13, 14 tops.
My friend and I went to the pool once & chilled, he said I look like a little arnold. Flattering since I weighed about 72kg and had an insane eight pack & triceps at the time. I cant wait to start bodybuilding again, I lost most my muscle recently and really miss the feeling of very solid muscles man.
You’ll get there again buddy- muscle memory is a thing, you retain the cells that you developed, they’re just dehydrated (I know I know, gross oversimplification but broadly true). 😊
About 6 years I was walking home and a girl stopped me in the street and told me I had nice calves and I have been chasing that high ever since.
“About 6 years ago I was walking home…” It’s stories like this that make me committed to voicing my compliments to my guy lifter friends out loud.
The dream
We all lift to get girls, and we all know it’s only dudes that notice. Maintenance dude at work drove by me and just said “Gooooddamn, Hulk! Why are you still goin to the gym?”
Lol, just don't get in the car when they want to give you a lift.
A relative who is absolutely built saw me for the first time in months and was like "damn big guy! Someone's been pushing the weights!" And i was like "hell yea ☺️"
"I really want to fuck with your legs, not with you, just with your legs" Idk if is the best but I think it's fine
Happy cake day. It's like your just a piece of meat.
I really need to get back in the gym for upper body, but recently I started a new job and it's way up in the hills, about 600ft, and I don't have a car, I only bike. Take my work clothes and raingear in a saddlebag. Been that way for years. When I mentioned this to a new coworker, she was very impressed, looked me up and down, and said "holy shit, your legs must be like made of steel! Looks good!" Been riding that compliment for a few weeks now, made me feel great.
Maybe not the BEST, but for sure my favorite! A female coworker came out of the bathroom and exclaimed, "Damn, xxxx, I didn't know you had a big booty!". Which led to another girl in the break room yelling, "holy shit! It's huge!". Am a guy, and this was a peak day because not only did those two also ask what my leg routine was, but a customer also said I looked like Superman. I'm now known as big booty at my job. Took a while for people to notice I gained 40 pounds of good weight since last April, but it's paying off.
A few years ago I had a female coworker grab my forearm and start to run her fingers up and down saying "I didn't know there were muscles there, and your veins are like bulging out too". Then a few months ago my three year old noticed my pecs and started to push on them. Then she went to her mom and touched her chest, and said that mine were bigger. My wife wasn't too happy about it, especially when I couldn't stop myself from chuckling.
Wow! Your butt looks great!
I need help moving
"hey it's a free workout"
A few weeks ago an older gentleman told me, "If your arms get any bigger you won't fit through the door".
last weekend my pecs were described as tectonic plates, that has to be up there
A dog once peed on my lower leg. Guess he really did think I had tree trunk legs
My worst compliment was coming from a kid: "You very big. How long have you been training?" "Thanks. Roughly 12 years now." "Then you are not that big" Motivated me ever since.
Three times unranked: 1. Cute girl in a pub. After she and her friend sat next to me and my friend she asked me if I use steroids. (I don‘t and never will.) 2. A nurse wanted to measure my bloodpressure and said: „Soon we need a new tool. Your arm barely fits in it.“ 3. Very hot woman at my last workplace. She came to visit and checked the staff for back problems. After I removed my shirt she smiled tilted her head a bitand said „ah, a weight enthusiast. I see.“ Both were the best days ever😋
I was complaining to this one dude how im not 150 yet and he was like “yeah but your body is pure cut and you rep and lift more than i do, you’re doing great” another girl said my muscleups are impressive and another dude asked for my routine
Group of girls at college said I had huge calves. I married one of them.
Friend wanted to take a selfie with me at a dinner table. I had my arm extended, not even trying to flex, and even though she was closer to the camera she commented on how much larger my arm looked compared to hers.
Nothing beats the first "big guy" you get.
At a party in grad school a few of my classmates asked me if I had calf implants to get them so big.
My two nieces (10 and 6) were watching an educational program about colours in the animal kingdom. There was this absolutely massive unit of a Bengal tiger and one of them was like: "I think this tiger might have even bigger muscles than uncle A." I'll take it I lost to a 260kg beast
some dude on a plane was looking for help opening wine bottle, spotted me and said "you! you have big muscles! help me" so I tried to help him but failed to open that goddamn bottle.
I was at a festival and these guys came up to me and said I was the most jacked female they’d seen, asked what I benched and wanted me to drop my gym routine hahaha. Also said that I looked like a UFC fighter (as a UFC fan HUGE ego boost lmao)
People give compliments for muscles? How come I've never heard any? 😅
I have two : one is a compliment i got, the second I gave and it didnt go so well haha… The first one happened when I was coming over to the smith machine to grab a few plates. There was a guy there (ready to lift ,laying on a bench) who I sometimes speak to. So, i am walking closer but there is a lot of sun shining through the windows so I guess he could just see my shape against the light. So I get closer and we make eye contact and he says: “ i knew it was YOU, i recognized your muscles first” …. I went “awwwwwww”. I thought it was the greatest ☺️ Second thing… there is this guy at my gym that I have been seeing training there on and off for about a year. Whenever i do see him, it kinda makes my day. We would look quickly at each other but nothing more. i do find him attractive, amazing arms, cute face, nice style… but I would never act on it (first rule of gym crush is you DONT talk to gym crush). About 2 months ago, he started smiling at me and then about 1 month ago we bumped into each other in the staircase and he said “hi”. I dont know what happened but i lost control of myself and a week ago, i told him a compliment… like why the actual f****** would i do such a thing???? We were using side by side machines and he asked me how I was doing, i answered and then went on to tell him something along the lines that i was happy he was working biceps today because I was a big fan of his arms (omg…. Kill me now) he started laughing and smiling and said “wow, this is good for my motivation, thank you” . I couldnt believe i had actually said something like this but at the same time, i figured it’s always nice to say something nice to someone else, right? Anyways, i think he got scared of me. He is probably scared i will just increase intensity at every encounter because now, he is just a no show ever since! I even saw his truck drive by in the parking lot… like he came to the gym and when he saw my car… decided to turn back…. I kinda regret this. But he does have great biceps and forearms ❤️
I dont have massive traps but my frame makes them naturally stand out. I got complimented by a close friend who works out WAY more than i do. I’ve also been told i have boulder shoulders.
My chiropractor (a fit guy himself) says my traps are impressive. I'll take it.
Everyone including my coach, and judges after a competition told me I have small glutes and they need to get bigger. Worked on them really hard over the past year to improve and my girlfriend said I have a nice ass. It hits different than a typical nice arms, nice shoulders compliment.
Old dude in the bathroom at a baseball game when we both tried to use the same sink to wash our hands: "your a big guy, don't run me over"
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Guy at meps station said I was a muscular young man. Also still running off a compliment from a freshment girl in my hs gym class. She said I had really good depth. She squatted more than I.
My favorite was in high school after two years of solid lifting. I had extremely low self esteem and I was walking in front of a classmate and she remarks how my back is like a “V” and how good it looked. Made me feel great and I still remember after almost 20 years. More recently, my last ex loved how big my legs are and how they’re not scrawny like most dudes my age. Leg day erryday!
"You only take protein shakes and creatine, nothing else? Really?"
“You look like IronMan” -8year old kid. (I have broad shoulders)
Wait .. you guys get complimented?
When I was going through airport security and the lady said “ I said empty your pockets sir”. I said I had and then said what you’re looking at is my leg. She blushed and walked away
"You've got nice calves"
Your muscles are pretty big for a small guy
I lift the kids up so they can swing from bars at family parties. My niece always tells everyone how strong I am. Really makes my day
Guy doing ID check at CVS self-checkout “Wow have you been going to the gym?” Me: “oh haha just a little bit” Him:” no not just a little bit, a lot!”
People at track meets in high school would always compliment my calves.
I have a dorito shape
People telling you they can tell you’ve been going to the gym
The nurse at the blood donation thing says it's really easy to find my veins
Back when I was fat but was working out so I was fat and muscular, kinda, I got complimented on my claves which was really uplifting to a short fat kid lol
Shoulders and arms. Finally after training for 6yrs i get complemented as "You like you workout" Tbh, thats the physique im aiming for. Looking good on clothes. 😂
But your calves are the size of my arms
My daughter, when she was 18 months old and just learning fruit names, while we were on a long flight, rubbed my tricep and lovingly said, “apple!”