Working Out vs. Training

Lets try to differentiate between "working out" and "training."

Someone who "works out"

1. Actually says, "I am going to the gym to workout." This would be followed by
2. Wears gloves and/or complains about getting callouses.
3. Always does what is easy. IE: has done the same routine and looks EXACTLY the same as (s)he did three years ago.
4. Carries their cell phone with them into the gym. Unless you're a brain surgeon and/or Reggie Jackson (who I actually did see in the gym talking on his cell phone, but he's Mr. October and you're not, plus his forearms are the size of Kansas), you can live without your phone for an hour.
5. Carries a newspaper or magazine with them to read in between sets (worse yet: reads a newspaper or magazine DURING a set). Huh, I wonder why you're still fat?
6. Uses the term "I don't want to get big a bulky" whenever anyone mentions squats or deadlifts.
7. Spends 45 minutes training biceps while wearing UnderArmour.
8. Sorry ladies: yoga is not a form of working out. It's a form of crap.
9. Is ecstatic when the new ellipticals arrive.
10. Will never know what it's like to be in shape.

Someone who "trains"

1. Has a purpose and mission each and every day (s)he steps into the gym.
2. Is proud of their callouses and has a pet name for each and every one of them.
3. Is mad when it's NOT squat or deadlift day.
4. Knows there's more to life than three sets of ten. Matter of fact, anything over six reps is considered cardio.
5. Is in and out of the gym in less than 75 minutes.
6. Needs nothing but a power rack and a barbell to kick his or hers' own ass.
7. Doesn't use straps for lat pulldowns
8. Doesn't feel that women and men need to train differently. IE: she doesn't get intimidated by the guys in the free weight area.
9. Brags about their "battle scars" on their shins.
10. Actually looks like they lift weights.

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