It is funny once guys at the gym start telling me:

“Just be careful.”

When people tell me this, especially guys who are bigger than me, what they really mean to say is,

I am insanely befuddled by the fact that this guy can lift more than me, and doesn’t use any sort of “protection“, whether it be a weight lifting belt, knee wraps, etc.

The funny thing is that because I do not use these silly weightlifting or powerlifting paraphernalia, whether it be wrist wraps, knee wraps, I’ll be lifting belt, etc., people don’t think that I am a “serious“ powerlifter or weightlifter.