what started you all lifting?

[louden_swain]

Ironlion,

Have you lived in Tulsa your whole life? If so, where did you attend high school and college?

I ask, because I live in OKC.

 

[IronLion]

from southern california, did hs and college there

 

[revexrevex]

Started lifting because i loved the look of lean body.. and also cause of the love of the pain

 

[muscledog95]

Went with my dad when i was 11. He used to circuit train and run on the tread mill. I would shoot hoops then started doing arms and bench with him.. Started running track in Middle school....so wanted to get after. Started off with step running, leg press, ext, and leg curls....Not until last yr did I start doing the king of leg workouts.....the squat

 

[PolishHammer1977]

I faced many obstacles through life. The iron was always there for me. Even though early on in my lifting career I didn't know what I was doing, the iron was always there. Kind of like a good friend.

I started going to the Rec Center in my town after school when I was 15. I used to jog a mile there from high school, lift, and jog 2 miles to get home. I learned a lot about myself and what I needed to do to make my dream of being a professional true. I knew that I needed to put my mind and body through some serious hell in order to get where I needed to be. I knew that negative people and negative things altogether were obstacles for me.

I got there and it was all well worth it! My work paid off and I deserved it dammit. Now after 10-11 years I can say that if I miss a day, I am dissapointed in myself. I know there is someone else somewhere who found a way to work that lifting session in. I failed myself! This is how I look at it

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

went to a Fitness America contest a few yrs back & met competitors Julie Shipley & Katie Uter & I just so wanted to look like that & compete in fitness... still working on it.. LOL!

 

[Mike_Rojas]

I started weight lifting because I was 6 feet tall and 125 pounds and I was sick of being a bone rack.

 

[needsleep]

There are several answers I give whenever I do answer this question which one I give depends on what I feel like at the time, the truth is that they are all correct for me it was a comming together of many factors that made me want to train.

1. I used to do Kickboxing and I did circuit training (a lot of body weight exercises mainly) I did these for 3 years and was in decent shape as a result. I left University and stopped all this activity, a few years later whenever I talked to someone about weights and fitness I found myself saying "I used to...." a hell of a lot. I got pissed off at myself for living in the past and viewing how good i was by how good i was back when I did sports, I didn't want to say what I used to do I wanted to be able to talk about what I did now.

2. I am the eldest of 3 brothers, being older than one by 4 years and the other by 9 years. As they got older they got stronger, now as I was a fair bit older I was way stronger but as years passed they were getting close to me. I could not accept either of them becomming stronger than me so I started to train.

3. I did my Masters Degree in Sports Science - Fitness and Health, I hated telling people this whilst looking like crap, if I ever wanted to work in this field then I figured I needed to look the part so people would take me seriously. It'd be like a mechanic driving around in a car that always broke down and he could never fix it right.

4. Respect, I wanted respect, I wanted respect from people even if they only just glanced at me whilst passing. Very paralell with this I wanted people to be jealous of me, I wanted people to wish they were me. This sounds very wierd, but it's true, guess it's some psychological thing.

5. After I started Training MANY other factors played BIG parts on keeping me going.

 

[Zander1983]

I was an overweight, unfit, self-conscious 15yr old and had just broken up with my girlfriend of 10-11 months. I wanted to prove a point to everybody, but mainly to myself. I didn't have a clue what I was doing. Everything one could do wrong, I did. But it was the start of something that will never leave me.

Now I lift because I am addicted to absolutely everything about training

 

[gonelifting]

I used to "spot" my cousin when he lifted weights in our apartment building basement. I never was interested or wanted to workout.
One day as I`m giving him some help changing weights, He said "bro you`re gonna get big just spotting me. lol" THAT ONE SENTENCE CHANGED MY LIFE.