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what got you motivated??

thebrute

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mine was a "funny" story to say the least that taught me more about humility than it did powerlifting. i was about 15 and i was still lifting weights off and on doing mostly bodybuilding stuff. so, every day during lunch period me and some other guys would arm wrestle instead of going outside, so they would test my strength and vice versa. i was pretty good at it(strength wise and keep in mind i had NO knowledge of armwrestling)so it was easy to be more confident about it. one day, this kid decides he want to armwrestle me so i take him up on the challenge. when we locked hands and started i noticed something....i couldn't move his fuckin arm!!:mad: and to add insult to injury while i was straining to move his arm, he was sitting comfortably drinking and holding me at bay at the sametime, but i manage to move his arm eventually and almost brought it down before he overpowered me and took me the other direction. at this point..i had a piece of what you call.."humble pie". i did another match like that with another guy and that was it for the day. found out later that he was a powerlifter. i couldn't believe the strength he had when i was arm-wrestling him. he was about my height around 210 benchin about 275-300 and he was 16. i saw this display of strength in the gym a few days later. needless to say, i wanted to be a powerlifter because of the awesome strength & power that he had and that's how the seed began in me. to this day, if i hadn't of arm-wrestled that guy, i would of never known about powerlifting...funny but pretty fuckin ironic though and for that i'm grateful..but i always wonder now...could i beat him??:confused: i guess its one of those questions i'll never the know the answer but just as well!!but it did teach me a lesson to never be over-confident..cause there is always someone out there stronger and/or better than you...and that i learned to be humble!

let me hear some of your stories...i know some has one better!! tb
 
ever since i started i was a power lifter, but also had some BB in there. Now i can focus purely on power in the off season, and endurance in because size isnt the number 1 priority now. Its not even number 3.

1.Strength
2.Speed
3.Explosiveness
4.Protection
5.Size

1-4 are all functional examples...
 
Guess I was just tired of being skinny, tall but not big. I don't really have some crazy story... but maybe I'll make one up later.
 
For me it started when I was 5 years old and first saw Arnold and Lou, I've wanted it ever since
 
At 16 years old I was tired of being the skinniest kid around...so started training. I was young, and had no guidance, other than what I read. I made alot of mistakes, took alot of time perfecting my form, and suffered my fair share of injuries. Things have gotten much better, gaining almost 50lbs since then, and a ton of strength.
Keeping motivated mostly now is still the desire to be bigger and stronger, and my training partner pushing me along (and I, him). As well as this board, thanks guys!
 
I can't handle knowing that there is someone faster, stronger, or more skilled than I am. That feeling actually sickens me.
 
My friend took me into the highschool gym when I was 13, and I was hooked. It was something fun to do at the end of the crappy school day.
 
Actually..this board got me motivated. My husband was on here a lot and he kept sending me links to read. I finally looked around on the site and saw a lot of females on here and they were doing incredible things. I decided i wanted to be one of them...
 
slobberknocker said:
My friend took me into the highschool gym when I was 13, and I was hooked. It was something fun to do at the end of the crappy school day.
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i know the feelin brutha...nothing like the weights to workout that aggression!! tb
 
i started for footballin 8th grade....... then in 10th i wanted to change my body......... body is very different now, i reached my goal of being a normal even "ripped" kid (thats what my school calls anyone with any muscle at all, its pathetic) now im on my first bulking cycle and i now know that im hooked for life. this board motivates me a ton too!!!!
 
The gym is what motivates me, the people I see there all the time, the challenge each time to lift as good or better than last, just the whole atmosphere, I get withdrawels if I can't make it to the gym.
Also, I get motivated when I see someone much bigger and stronger than me repping out massive weight... makes me think "I got a lot of work to do".
 
I was a little skinny kid that always got picked on. In junior high a group of kids always harrassed me and pushed me down in the mud. I started lifting weights to put some muscle on me.

I used to watch "Incredible Hulk" and I always wished I had David Banner's problem. I thought it would be great to get huge and throw the bullies around.
 
My first glimpse of Matt Mendenhall and I was hooked on bodybuilding. Then a seminar by the Barbarian Brothers and.............................. DAMN!!!
 
tad69 said:
My first glimpse of Matt Mendenhall and I was hooked on bodybuilding. Then a seminar by the Barbarian Brothers and.............................. DAMN!!!
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yea matt was a behemoth in his heyday indeed!!! tb
 
Mike_Rojas said:
I was a little skinny kid that always got picked on. In junior high a group of kids always harrassed me and pushed me down in the mud. I started lifting weights to put some muscle on me.

I used to watch "Incredible Hulk" and I always wished I had David Banner's problem. I thought it would be great to get huge and throw the bullies around.
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soon brutha...they won't be callin u "banner" anymore!!:D
i felt the same way when i was younger myself..if u can believe that! tb
 
Media glorifies guys with good physiques. Hence my humble begginings.
 
i had lifted on and off during my high school years, but nothing serious at all. i didn't have much of an idea of what i was doing, and i never stuck to it for long anyway.

I was 5'6" 135lbs my senior year of high school and my friend was getting seriously into training and he kept talking to me about it which perked my interest again. I had come to the realization that I wasn't going to get much taller, so I felt like I needed to make up for it with some size. When girls started noticing my body, that just fueled my fire.

Recently I was losing motivation because of stress from school and life, but seeing some of you guys here like thebrute and walkingbeast just pushing for strength helped me regain my focus. I'm still a bodybuilder, but now I have an insatiable desire for more power and heavier weights.
 
Real simple. . .

I was 112lbs and wanted to do some serious damage out on the mat. . .with added strength and size.

After witnessing rapid gains. . I was hooked.
 
My father got me into it when i was young 15. never really did much lifting but he did. i watched the pumping iron videos and then conan with arnold and then always had an eye for bodybuilding. pumping iron gets me motivated, this forum keeps me motivated and teaches me, and any performance enhancer gets my ass to hit the iron harder than i normally would.

Scaggs
 
there's a war coming. i've got to prepare.





























just kidding. but that sure did sound good to me.
being bigger and stronger and faster is part of a personal evolution. to see improvement on a regular basis is pleasurable. even though it's not easy, it's still much easier than evolving my mind and behavior (which i consider of real importance and the true challenge). i'll take what i can get, for now.

:D
 
Scaggs said:
My father got me into it when i was young 15. never really did much lifting but he did. i watched the pumping iron videos and then conan with arnold and then always had an eye for bodybuilding. pumping iron gets me motivated, this forum keeps me motivated and teaches me, and any performance enhancer gets my ass to hit the iron harder than i normally would.

Scaggs
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pumping iron got me motivated about bodybuilding and to this day still get me motivated!! but i agree with u brutha..100%!! tb
 
PIGEON-RAT said:
i had lifted on and off during my high school years, but nothing serious at all. i didn't have much of an idea of what i was doing, and i never stuck to it for long anyway.

I was 5'6" 135lbs my senior year of high school and my friend was getting seriously into training and he kept talking to me about it which perked my interest again. I had come to the realization that I wasn't going to get much taller, so I felt like I needed to make up for it with some size. When girls started noticing my body, that just fueled my fire.

Recently I was losing motivation because of stress from school and life, but seeing some of you guys here like thebrute and walkingbeast just pushing for strength helped me regain my focus. I'm still a bodybuilder, but now I have an insatiable desire for more power and heavier weights.
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hey..that's what were here for brutha. me and beast are a "tag-team" of some sorts and we push each other like it should be!! i can tell our motivation and desire is going to be a contagious thing!! hit me up anytime if u have any questions brutha!! tb
 
I used to get winded going up stairs =/...and I could also feel my heart pulsating in minor pain.

Plus...I might as well get something out of being an endo =/

Oh yeah...I also have this complex where I have to be better than everyone else :D
 
At first it was cosmetic reasons. I wanted to look as good as possible. Now it's more for overall strength concerns, though some visual desire is still there.
 
thebrute said:


hey..that's what were here for brutha. me and beast are a "tag-team" of some sorts and we push each other like it should be!! i can tell our motivation and desire is going to be a contagious thing!! hit me up anytime if u have any questions brutha!! tb
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Im honored my brothers....Thank you. What got me started was 10+ straight years of getting the shit beat out of me, spit on etc. At one point I was hatred in its purest form. Fantasizing nonstop, obsessed with the idea of skinning people and suicide. When I was 14 I started liffting at 105lbs. It didnt take long before I felt the desire to transform into that very beast I imagined. Ripping skin off people etc. These days, I just try to keep my violent tendacies under control and focus them on the weights. Im still real fucking irratible though and a fuckload of hatred and adrenaline is pumping through my veins 24/7. Im like a cornered fucking animal. Good thing God keeps me somewhat stable. Without that Id be much less contained.
 
older brother, i dont see him much but when i do i am scared and nervous not to let him down when hittin the wieghts togsther

i get the shits just before lifting with him, cuz i am know iam gonna get my ass kicked
 
I play Football over here in England. Last summer i got onto the Great Britain Students team. Thing is, the tour that year was planned to be a tour to the US.

As you can imagine, Amfoot isn't taken that seriously over here, and as i am naturally quite strong i never needed to train seriously to be considered good.

However, i knew that going over to the states would be a different matter. So i started hitting the gym seriously. And this has continued till today.
 
Personally, I just really like feeling sore the day after. I got started after graduating HS. I was about 275 of pure fat (benching 80lbs maybe). That sucked.
 
now I'm at the point where people are starting to look at me like a freak, and I love it. I am currently at 246lbs, just under 5'9", at about 11% bf. I went out to a club the other night with some buddies, and I actually heard people making comments about my size and me being a freak, as they walked by....that makes it worth while. Plus, watching guys get mad because their girlfriends kept looking at me, that was just funny
 
lmao needsize.

You are one massive dude- cant believe you are up to 246 already after that contest, wow.

Keep up the good work, you are inspiration for many.
 
I got into it because I wanted to look better. Of course, I didn't know anything and didn't make any significant progress. I'm one of those guys who has decent natural muscle shape, so I looked like I worked out even when I didn't. People's reactions to my innately decent-looking physique gave me a taste of what reactions an attractive body could get, so I started hitting the weights anew.

Eventually I got addicted to the process of adding muscle. It's almost like collecting things for a hobby, but instead of coins or stamps it's pounds of LBM. Now I have more strength-related goals, such as benching mid-200s, squatting 300's, deadlifting 400's. I'd love to hit the magic 300-400-500 milestone. And I'm sure by the time I get there I'll look pretty damn good. It'd be fun to do some modeling, I think I have the potential for it.
 
i have no friends, and i thought that if i started lifting it would magically get me some....didnt start lifting yet, bu ti joined the wrestling team, and i still have no friends:bday:
 
needsize said:
now I'm at the point where people are starting to look at me like a freak, and I love it. I am currently at 246lbs, just under 5'9", at about 11% bf. I went out to a club the other night with some buddies, and I actually heard people making comments about my size and me being a freak, as they walked by....that makes it worth while. Plus, watching guys get mad because their girlfriends kept looking at me, that was just funny
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needsize...i know what u mean it was the same with me when i was 225-230 back in 2000. any hoot, that's always a plus when girls look at you like that!! tb
 
ChewYxRage said:
lmao needsize.

You are one massive dude- cant believe you are up to 246 already after that contest, wow.

Keep up the good work, you are inspiration for many.
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Thanks, I'm a little shocked at how its working out, but very happy. I think its the diet, I'm eating minimum 8 meals a day, with at least 450 grams of protein, and it seems to be doing the trick.
I realized this week that I cant bend over to tie my shoes, I have to sit down to put them on....it means I'm getting pretty big and I love it
 
needsize said:


Thanks, I'm a little shocked at how its working out, but very happy. I think its the diet, I'm eating minimum 8 meals a day, with at least 450 grams of protein, and it seems to be doing the trick.
I realized this week that I cant bend over to tie my shoes, I have to sit down to put them on....it means I'm getting pretty big and I love it
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Haha. I went through that last summer. There was a period of about 6-8 weeks where I wore no socks ever, because it was too much work trying to put them on, lol.
 
Egads... if there were ever such a thing as too big, I think it'd kick in somewhere around when one has trouble putting on socks :p
 
casualbb said:
Egads... if there were ever such a thing as too big, I think it'd kick in somewhere around when one has trouble putting on socks :p
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No kidding. I don't ever want to get to that point again. I was 398 at the heaviest. The funny thing is, I'm a much better lifter now at 345 lbs because I'm more athletic and in much better shape. All out mass is only good to a certain point before it starts to become a hindrance.
 
slobberknocker said:



Haha. I went through that last summer. There was a period of about 6-8 weeks where I wore no socks ever, because it was too much work trying to put them on, lol.
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no kidding..try having to find the matches to them!!!LOL tb
 
I like this thread a lot. I am 24 now, I've been lifting since I was 14, non-stop. I was internally motivated to become as big and strong as I could because my father died when I was 7, and I felt pretty helpless and vulnerable. I never wanted to feel like that again. Whenever I feel like slacking off, I remember what it felt like to ne weak and helpless and vulnerable, and I say to myself 'No FUCKING way, NEVER again!!". It pushes me over the edge and I have an awesome workout, when just before thinking through that I wanted to sit home and play XBox and skip the gym.

In November of 1993 ,when I was 14, two of my buddies, they were brothers, had a TDS Mega Bench and a bunch of d-bells in their basement. I wanted to be big and strong, so I came over one day after school to give it a shot, and I was hooked. I weighed about 150lbs at 5'11". I benched 95lbs for a tough set of 8, and I remember it like it was yesterday. That was in 9th grade. My mom bought me the same set-up for my basement that year for Christmas and by the time I finished high school I weighed 230. I joined a gym my Sr. year in high school, and lifted all throughout college and at one point got up to 286lbs at 5'11" at the age of 21.

At 24, I am still internally motivated for the same reason I was since I was 7 years old. I have trained various styles over the years, nowadays I consider myself a strength athlete. I weigh about 250lbs, but I wouldn't mind 300 some day.

Brute, your arm wrestling atory took me down memory lane. I used to always arm wrestle a friend of mine in high school, he never really had a lot of weight room strength, but he had long arms and tendons like steel cables. He could throw a baseball 97mph. He used to beat my ass when we were kids growing up, but as I started to train the gap got closer and by the time we were JRs in high school, I was beating him pretty damn easily. We lost touch after high school, he never went to college, and last I heard he got hooked up with some shit he shouldn't have and he was a Heroin addict. I guess I'd probably tear his shoulder out of the socket now if we arm wrestled.

Anyway, I've been in this game a while, and have read this board lot in the past, and have researched it a lot over the years. This was a great thread, and really got me a little worked up and made me decide to be a part of this board and contribute what I can as well as learn by reading the posts.
 
diesel,
your story is truly inspiring and i remember a few parts of my life that were like that so i can relate a lot. i hope i can help you or vice versa here brutha!! oh and 5-11 and 286 is fuckin huge brutha!! tb
 
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