I hate the expression "No pain, no gain"

[Throwawaysoul]

"NO PAIN, NO GAIN" manly grunts!!!

That expression, usually said by meat heads ad nauseam. Has kept me away from fitness in general my entire life.

I'm thankful not to be in physical pain, why would I want to have both crippling emotional pain and physical pain?
What exactly would I been gaining? I'm pretty sure I prefer emotional pain over physical pain any day.

Ooga booga! Grunt grunt. No pain, no gain!!!

 

[death137]

I used to tell that quote to myself during my pathetic self improvement campaign a year and some months ago. I used to walk 10-20 km and also starved myself for days. I tried to use that quote as an inspiration. But the pain was great and the gain was small. Nowadays I despise inspiration quotes in general.

 

[TheAmazingCriswell]

It is a coping mechanism, plain and simple.
Many people experience considerable amounts of pain without any gain whatsoever, whereas others are very successful without going through any suffering at all.
It is an extension of the thought "everything happens for a reason". "Surely I will be rewarded for my suffering", but alas, you will not.
It is difficult to accept that you can do everything right and still fail, and it is just as difficult to accept that you can work hard without reaping any benefits.

 

[LakatosDiogenesz]

It applies to building muscle but I can't name anything else where it would be true. In fact, the people who gain the most are often the ones with the least pain.

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

If you're feeling pain in the gym you should leave and take a rest day. Especially if it's during deadlifts, haha.

 

[Broken Buzz]

A prime example of toxic positivity. Few of us would ever turn to someone, fresh out of a multiple limb amputation post-accident, and say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"... It may indeed make them stronger, eventually, but it could also have the opposite effect and render them suicidally depressed.

We're all wired to deal with pain and tragedy in different ways, I wish the people who espoused inspirational quotes with religious dogmatism, would put down Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, and have a little more sympathy for those of us whose problems stretch beyond the help of positive thinking.

 

[WornOutLife]

Just one more pro-life expression which makes no sense!

I would love a normal person to be under the hell we are and see if someone telling them "no pain, no gain" could change their lives lol.

Nonsense!

 

[eternalmelancholy]

It's true though. Creating something requires tremendous labor. That is why the rich offload it to the working class while they reap all the benefits. It is crazy to me that people are okay with this dynamic where they are constantly fucked over.

 

[motel rooms]

It's true when it comes to suicide. You can't gain freedom unless you're willing to go through the pain of struggling with SI until your last conscious second

 

[FuneralCry]

I hate it too, most pain we experience is unnecessary. It is harmful to suggest that there is always some benefit from any pain we are experiencing. Emotional pain and trauma can send us into despair and we have the curse of being unable to forget anything we have been through. Physical chronic pain doesn't strengthen us but debilitates us. It is the same with emotional pain. Phrases like that invalidate the suffering someone is going through.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

I hate it too, most pain we experience is unnecessary. It is harmful to suggest that there is always some benefit from any pain we are experiencing.

If people were honest with themselves and admitted that there is no deeper meaning to pain and suffering, they would have a mental breakdown. We all lie to ourselves to varying degrees to be able to function.

 

[newave3]

It's true when it comes to suicide. You can't gain freedom unless you're willing to go through the pain of struggling with SI until your last conscious second

I had the exact same thought when I saw the title of the thread.

 

[Heavenbound]

I don't like that quote either.

 

[CloudyNight]

Hm I like the saying but I understand why some might not I guess to get something you must always put something out there whether that is your emotions or just your physical body it's to get something you want you have to work for it but that's just how I see the saying if I break it down