re: Do You Call What You Do in the Gym "Training"?

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For the record if I'm just talking to a friend or my wife I just say working out. But if talking programming I don't say ...let's talk strength working out. I say strength training.

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And this pretty much sums up why I brought up the topic to begin with. I understand that lifting weights or whatever it is you do in the gym is technically "training", its just in some circumstances, calling it that comes off cringe worthy to me. The rest of my arguments were basically just to argue, as I am not married to those ideas, and I enjoy arguing.

But that's ultimately what I mean. In casual conversation between buddies or coworkers, when someone says they are going train, it makes me feel like they are trying to hard, I guess, depending on what exactly their "training" intels.

CSB

My typical comment is "im going get swole as frick" or "time to go get jacked". Then someone calls me a douche. Then i smile, and walk out.

This is probably startling to most of you...

Saying “training” is stupid unless you compete.

Just say you’re going to lift or work out.

When I go to the gym, my mindset is always the same. To have as hard of a workout as possible, and to give it as much effort as I can.

Earbuds in, zone out. Add weight. Do more reps.

I still don't call it training.

I say I’m either gonna lift, workout, or run.

I think it's kind of an elitist attitude. For me personally, when I'm going downstairs for my lifting session I tell me wife I'm going down to lift. When I'm going down for my treadmill session, I tell my wife I'm going to exercise.

That being said, when I lift I am training to deadlift 350, I'm training to squat 300, I'm training to benchpress 225. On the treadmill I'm training to finish a 10k, I'm training to reduce my 5k time to 30m, I'm training to improve my incline volume.

I'm legitimately training.

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Exercising. Unless there is money or a trophy involved you’re just exercising.

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Or your life

You know they whole training for military, LEO, Fire etc

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know this has nothing to do with Health/Fitness, and is more of an OT topic, but it just rubs me the wrong way when someone, who isn't training for an actual competition (lifting competition, fitness competition, a race, etc.) says they train instead of saying they workout or lift weights or whatever..

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I once heard someone say that if you look at it as exercising, you won’t focus on technique as much as effort to get though, and you won’t realize improvements and very likely end up hurting yourself. If you view every rep as training to get better at the exercise you’re doing, you’ll focus on making each rep perfect, improving technique, increasing improvements in ability, and much lower potential of hurting yourself.

It made sense to me even though I say I go work out.