Anyone else NOT athlete BEFORE they started lifting?

[The Shadow]

I know this is a chick thread but I was the "SO not an athlete" when I started.

I was 155 as a senior in HS at 6'2".

Weights opened an entire new set of doors for me.

 

[gingernuts]

I have been a swimmer,distance runner and cyclist (only competed as a runner and once in a mountain bike race).I have also managed to intersperse one eating disorder, and currently one alcohol dependency which I am currently in treatment for.My goal is to compete again - I have done one show naturally 4 years ago.The bbing lifestyle is very helpful as part of my recovery dispite most off my friends telling me it 'isn't right' for a woman to be big and muscular.It 'is'nt right' to be drinking 100 units of alcohol a week I say.

Got it down to around 40 units at the mo.Thats about 20 pints of cider or beer.not sure what measures they deal with in the U.S?.

 

[FigureSkater]

wow this is an old poll, not sure how it ended up on top, but anyway...

My parents put me on skates when I took my first steps (dad played hockey, mom skated but just for fun, they met at the rink), and I've been skating ever since. Competed on a national scale (synchro team and ice dance) from the time I was 10-20, competed internationally in high school in synchro. Took two years off jr/sr year of college due to lack of time but started competing again last year.

Also did color guard in high school, drum corps, and college marching band (spun rifle), which I have to thank for my killer shoulders and arms. Not dorky band...we were hard core.

Ran cross country/track in jr high/9-10 grade, trained with team but didn't do meets jr/sr year becaue it conflicted with skating.

Also swam my whole life and was on my college's synchronized swimming team.

Also played softball in summers since I was 8.

Honestly, 99% of the muscles on my body are from sports. I build muscle easily and can get away with not lifting for a while and still maintain it. Problem is I have a hard time losing fat.

 

[joe_garibaldi]

It seems that lots of the folks at Elite, and most of the female lifters I read about have been lifelong athletes. I suck at sports - I spent my youth inside reading or playing the piano. Before I started lifting heavy last year, I did 3 years of high school cheerleading, and some aerobics. So did anyone else go from zero to 60?

When I was 35 I could run 5 miles but I was never athletic. At the age of 47 my wife got me a membership in a gym. At the time I could bench 80 lbs. Now, I've kept with it, never lost the weight I wanted to but 4 years later at the age of 51......

I've put 2-3 inches on my arms and I bench 205 for 3 sets of 10. I do 5 sets of 110 on the biceps machine, 4 sets of 10 at 150 on the triceps machine, I leg press 4 set of 10 at 370 and do leg extensions for sets with 190-200. Etc. Not bad for an old geyser.....

 

[SteelChic]

I ran track and XC, and played softball in high school. Before that I was into Swiming and gymastics. I never played football on a team except for powerpuff... which was alot of practice and one game. Other than that gae I pretty much played football with the people I grew up with everyday, and today I still get comments by guys, that I throw better than half the guys out there....

But with all that... I still act and dress like a girlie I just like to be active.

 

[suk1978]

i did tae-kwo-do when i was 8-14. that where i discoverd i loved the weights as we had to hold these little dumbells (side raises) for as long as we could. and i foound it really easy. was a fat child though. at 15 i bought my set of dumbells to my mother's disgust and worked out in my bedroom follwing the weider principles that came with em. went to a really shoddy gym for a year when i was 16 to do legs and back stuff. i;ve been training for 11 years this september gone. decided to juice 10 months ago.
the other day a guy in the gym came up to me and went..."you really look like you work out!" which i laughed at, cos its taken 11 years for someone to say that without me flexing or volunteering the info beforehand!