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What made you start liftin'?

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badazzwhitedude

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For me, when I was 17 (in 1995), I went to Italy as I have always done during the summer. I have family there. I met this GORGEOUS girl there at the beach. She was one of the best looking girls I have ever seen to this day. Her body was UNBELIEVABLE!

Anyway, we hit it off really well. She was absolutely crazy about me. But when it came time to leave for the US, I was determined to return the next year with a new body. Right after I turned 18 (March 1996), I started lifting religiously. When August had come around and it was time to go back, I was so excited. I had gained 15 lbs. of quality muscle, and I was looking very good for the few months I had been lifting. It paid off BIG TIME when I went back there that year. :)

I have stayed in it (bodybuilding) ever since, but my goals are much bigger now, and I do it for different reasons. Well, sort of. :) Anyway, I am just curious to hear some of your stories and what it was like for you back then. I think it would be interesting.
 
I started to work out after high school. I played sports every season in HS (football, hockey, and lacrosse), so when i was in college i needed something to fill up spare time. Glad i got into it because i feel good and look good these days. Eating right and taking care of myself makes me (and i am sure others) feel good.:)
 
I was a Fat kid all my life and one day I just got sick of being fat, lazy and un healthy. I started to do Cardio and work on my diet and I joined a gym. Within a year I was looking better feeling great and had some self confidence back. I have been lifting ever since:cool:

M18
 
A couple years ago I was into drugs big time. Didn't have any goals except getting messed up that night. Well when I had knee surgery over one summer, I couldn't do anything except munch on painkillers, drink and sit with the girl I was cheating on my girlfriend with. Well one weekend my best friend and I went on a binge. Did nothin but x, coke, alcohol, and painkillers for the whole weekend nonstop. I woke up and said what the fuck am I doing? I know this going to sound gay but I read the body for life book by Bill phillips and it changed my whole way of thinking. I started working out and haven't stopped since. I don't believe a damn thing Bill says anymore since I've become more educated but it was a good motivational book.
 
I started out lifting after a car wreck, and to gain some good muscle gains, I was a couch potatoe and I knew I had to do something about it. So I worked out for a year at the gym, tore my shoulder up doing it, but it was worth it. A some juicin' did not hurt either!
 
WHEN I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL I WEIGHED 104 GOT A JOB AND ALL THE FU$%IN NAMES STARTED .NOW I'AM 180 PDS :D AT 5'7 NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT HOW:cool: AND I WILL GET TO 225!!!!!
 
I was inspired from watching Rocky movies. He wasn't bodybuilding but he was still training with superhuman intensity that I admired as a kid. At 14 years old I went down into the basement and dug out those old plastic cement filled weights my dad had. As a kid I think I use to do bench presses about 5 days a week. Hey I was stupid and didn't know any better. :D

Well I know it sounds corny but that's how I came to appreciate the pain and pump from heavy weight training.
 
My lifting weights and steroid odyssey:

7th grade football made me start lifting hardcocre, even though I was so young. I went from 135 to 155.
8th grade I lifted even harder and became a pretty big 14 year old. I got alot of attention. Guys respected me, girls liked me, I liked myself. I went from 155 to 180 ( I wasn't a monster but 180 is very big for a n 8th grader/freshman in highschool).
I took off after 10th grade when I quit football because of a back injury and laggining interest. I went from 180 to 165.
I became a big time stoner/party dude(Man would i get high!! That was some fun shit), got really skinnny. I went form 165 to 150
By senior year of highschool I was getting pushed around by guys who hadn't even hit puberty when I was the big 180 lb freshman hotshot. They were getting all the chics and were the guys with all the confidence and respect. I didn't lift no more. I felt left out, unhealthy, and suddenly inferior. I became really depressed. I went from 150 to 180 again but this time I was fat.
One thing I noticed was that the guys who got the chics senior year of high school lifted weights and I didn't. It clicked in my mind, lifting weights=chics and respect (at least that is how it is in highschool and early college!). I cut my long hair, quit the weed, shrooms, acid and alcohol and went clean for 2 years straight in which I devoted myself entirely to training, eating, sleeping and taking supplements ( a boaring time but effective in creating a a good base of strength, my bench went up to about 275). I went from 180 fat to 175 lean and strong.
I stumbled onto steroids while in florida for a semester off of school. TOok them and looked and felt better than I ever had in my life. I went from 175 lean to 190 ripped. The girls began to stare.
I got carried away during the next couple of years, lost sight of my goals, and took too much juce. I also eased off of the training. Girls started to be less interested. I went from 190 ripped to 220 big and smooth and strong as shit.
I think I am too big now. I looked better before all the test. I AM trying to get back to the physique I had when I just trained hard and did a little bit of roids instead of training light and doing hardocre roids. Want to go from 220 big smooth and strong as shit to 195 ripped and lean. I am runnin alot now.
LAter

:)
 
i seen my dad have a big belly and no muscles what so ever, to lifting and looking incredible in about two years, that got me into the sport.
 
My Bro.........

When I was like 7 years old my older brother used to work out in his bed room. I began to work out with him then and haven't stopped since, except for the times when I got my numerous (5) surgeries which put me out of action 6 months per surgery...!
 
I was scared shitless I would get my ass kicked when I went to junior high, so in sixth grade, I got a pair of dumbells and havent stopped since. I'm 22 now.

Another reason was because I played with GI Joe men and He-Men all the time and that was the image I wanted to emulate.

I didnt get my ass kicked, I look like a fucking GI Joe now and I've gotten tons of respect from guys and pussy along the way. So mission accomplished!
 
I started because my fiance slept around on me, not once but twice with two different guys who were obviously in better shape than me.

My self-esteem and will to live left me but I found new life in lifting and leave the gym every day with a renewed sense of well being.
 
i always had a weight problem, one day me and my friends decided to go to the gym. just for fun. i have love going ever since and will probably never stop going..
 
Joining the Marine Corps.. 5 years and still going STRONG!! have to keep up with the yuong pups coming in!!
 
Mums boyfriend

Step father was a fuckhead......I was young and little - he was big as well as fat.

I trained my arse off as a teenager...now I'm big and he is a weed to me.

The day came where the training all paid off.......

Now it comes down to looking and feeling GREAT :)

Hud
 
I started lifting whe I was 16 four years ago to put on weigth and look good, and too beat some occasional ass ;) Now 4 years later I am about 90lbs heavier and stronger than i would have ever imagined !

Mass Monster
 
Body dysmorphia dudes....I strongly believe that one's self image is set in adolescence. If you're Joe Stud in highschool, you will still think you are God's gift to women when you are 30 fat bald and working in a gas station. If you are a little shit who gets your ass kicked in highschool, you will still feel like a little shit when you are 30, lean covered in muscle and in the best shape of your life. I weigh 65 pounds more than I did when I graduated from highschool and I am leaner...I know with my head how I stack up against other dudes, but I still feel insecure on the inside...it makes me work harder.
 
My dad bought me a weight set for my 12th birthday. I guess he didn't want me to be tall and skinny like the rest of my family. EXAMPLE: My brother is 6'4"/155lbs.

I am the runt at 6'2". But I get 'um all in gerth LOL!

~BigBob 238lbs and growing.
 
I was anorexic for many years and wanted some shape to my body.... Got hooked and now I can't stand to be weak! I enjoy the feeling of being strong... now I have a shape that I love!!!
 
Watching my Father work out when I was real young.

Building upper body strength for wrestling at 15.

Getting back into shape after high school.

Kinda sticks with yah. Can't kick that rush you get from a new top lift or a good over all workout. Feeling better and looking better.:)
 
Ever since I was in grade 7 I have had the vision of myself as the alpha male. 8 years later this goal is still embedded in my mind, and I am getting closer but I still have a ways to go. I want to be the guy girls want to be with and guys want to be like. I also think I have bigarexia, I am obsessed with getting big. Sometimes I will stay at home because I feel small although I am bigger than 85% guys out there, I can't handle that I need to be #1.

Anyway, I started lifting a 3 years ago and really started lifting hardcore Sept. 2000.


-Dean
 
I was a very skinny kid(6' and 155lbs), and had a very low self esteem. I didn't feel good about myself at all. Lifting has given me the courage to do things in my life that I would have never done...
 
weird.

I see most of you guys were skinny ,genetic sad individuals...before trainning...well lets see I was 17 I guess I always condidered strenght and power the ultimate destiny of my life.I was 5-9 and weighted 180 lbs ,well gained 10lbs a year until I was 21 all natural....I was also considered the strongest guy anywhere i went...But I think Its was mental..I believed that was the strongest and when I d see those huge guys all roided up I d try to lift the weights they were trainning with(I thiught they were bigger because they trainned harder)Eventually I was stronger than all of them...LOL naturally,So I guess Im fuckin vain I think thats the reason and Whats the reason I train Now well
Its my identity and I take off my shirt in public alot and I want to impress those skinny guys ...lol
 
I was one of the strongest kids in High School (Top 5)in 10th grade. What a great feeling to have people watch you when you lift. There is nothing like being strong and healthy. Then that feeling is addictive!
 
When I was 14 my older brother told me he would give me $100 if I could bench 200lbs by the time I turned 15 (at the time my bench was barely over 100lbs). A year later I benched 205...btw I never got my money. :mad:
 
Real men train because?

Baddasswhitedude, Your reason for lifting is probable the same reason you still "workout". I emphasize workout because I don't get the impression that you do it for the real enjoyment,that is pain and more pain!! The finished result is I'm never satisfied with the way I look, and I still get all the fucking attention anyone could want from women and even men!!! I am an artist trying to sculpt the best body I have ever seen, I got the diet,drugs,the knowledge,and most importantly that voice inside of me SAYING "get up rocky,get up"""!!!
 
I was always I dweeb. As long as I can remember. I didn't get much respect, but what I did get was from the fact that I was naturally well built. Even without working out I was stronger then anybody my age. I eventually figured it out and by the age of 12 started hitting the wieghts but only spiradictly, only to make sure I kept above the rest. This continued through highschool and a few years after but still only off and on. I got married at twenty to a girl I knocked-up so I was a little bit distracted for a few years. Had another child,more distraction. I always tried to get back into it but always would quit after a few weeks or months.
At the age of 27 my wife slammed my physic. Told me how I had lost the body she liked me for and how I was destined to become a fat slob forever. She disrespected me and it hit me hard. I was 5'8, 175 pound flab boy with a beer gut. Well I snapped and joined the gym again and went every other day for 2 hours. That was a year ago. I am now 190 at 12%bf and I just starting my first cycle of gear, a cutting cycle(prop,winnie,primo).Trying to get to 200 at 8-10%bf. We shall see what happens.
I had my third child last november, my first boy. By the time he is old enough to know what muscle is I want him to think that his daddy is the man:-). As for my wife, she gives me more sex then ever and she joined the gym two months ago:)
 
That's funny MOB. Not too long ago, There was a guy at my gym who wanted to throw the weights with me that day, since we were both doing shoulders. I don't know him real well, but enough to say hi and chat for a couple of minutes. And he definitely has a respectable build.

He was doing what my "workout" consisted of. He just quit about half way through. He couldn't make it. He said I was crazy. But I love the pain!
 
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