What's the deal with these guys?

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spicypumpkin

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So at my school in the PE department there are all of these guys that take weight training and stuff. Instead of drinking water out of a regular water bottle like any normal person would, they feel the need to carry around one gallon plastic milk containers full of water.

Okay, I can understand, it's nice to have a lot of water at your fingertips whenever you need it. But they carry around these jugs like it's some type of status symbol. They even take them into their other classes. There are a lot of them who do this.

I'm also starting to see this with stuff like orange juice. These guys will carry around a gallon of orange juice and drink it throughout the day.

I just don't get it...

Maybe someone here can enlighten me..
 
a PE department, haha thats funny
 
Oh yeah? I'll carry around 2 gallons of water using both hands! That way I don't have to lift, and I'm still cool. That'll show them whose boss.
 
spicypumpkin said:
Maybe someone here can enlighten me..
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My theory is this (and I guess in line with what DW already said, I just noticed): not every jock can count. So, one gallon bottle = one gallon. Nice and simple. Me I simply remember what I eat and drink. If I've had 22 cups of water I know I've had that amount.

I drink out of shaker cups all the time for probably three reasons:

a) the ones I have are exactly 500 mL capacity, which simplifies the math
b) easier access - just pop off the lid and down half a litre of water real fast with none of that squeezing the bottle or having to wait for it bull**** - which is lovely for me because I'm very thirsty pretty much every 20-30 minutes
c) one of the companies I order from is constantly giving them to me as a throw-in and I feel the need to make them useful somehow

Of course chances are it's one of those stupid "Man Club" things we boys like to do. Sort of like gossiping for you women. Ahahahahah. I'm just gonna run away now.
 
Otherwise they could just listen to their body, or at least the colour of there wee wee. Finite amounts is overrated...
 
Another reason, besides the tracking one: Cost.

If someone is only drinking bottled water and not refilling from a water fountain, then it can be cheaper to buy a case of the gallon jugs (which themselves could be refilled at the store with filtered water if you're REALLY into that but need not be) than to buy a case of individual "regular" size bottles. Someone might have started doing it because of cost, and then it got adopted more widely.
 
LOL, :D **** you guys-- I'm one of the people in question. Although I don't bring it with me to class, I have a very active lifestyle. A gallon goes with me everywhere else-- even if it just sits in the car. I have downed more than half a gallon when grappling alone.

When I drink water, I drink in giant swigs. So a bottle is not ideal for this purpose.
 
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LeiYunFat said:
When I drink water, I drink in giant swigs. So a bottle is not ideal for this purpose.
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Sometimes I line up a row of my little shaker bottles (I have about 18 of them now) and down them like shots on an interval. Especially while cycling. It feels a lot like playing a drinking game. :D

Hahaha, I think it was a few days ago, I was watching uhm, what was I watching... Equilibrium, and I would take a drink every time someone said "feel" or "feeling" or anything like that. Ended up having to stop to take a piss halfway through.
 
matt182 said:
Otherwise they could just listen to their body, or at least the colour of there wee wee. Finite amounts is overrated...
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Except for that when you feel that you're thirsty, you're already in a state of dehydration. I suppose it would be better to follow your lead and just take a drink from the nasty public fountain every once in a while.
 
matt182 said:
a PE department, haha thats funny
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I don't see the humor in this. There's a science department, a math department, a fine arts department, etc. Where should physical education fall in as far as a department since you think it's funny PE should have its own department.

I guess you'd find my school email signature hillarious since my signature says Office of Phys Ed Affairs.
 
Guiness tastes like coffee.

I am a newb at appreciating fine beers.
 
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