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+ 5 Did you achieve your original fitness goals?
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Not your current goals since we're all a bunch of never happy fucks who keep raising the bar but your original fitness goals when you first started really working out and focusing on what you wanted to achieve?
Did you achieve your initial goals?
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clare200I appreciate the honesty in everyone’s reflections. Similar to many here, I initially aimed for a specific physique but found joy in the journey itself—discovering strength through variety rather than strict goals. [REDACTED]
I did, but run continued to raise the bar, the original goal when I was 19 was to run 2 miles in under 13 minutes while simultaneously hitting a 315 bench, 405 squat and a 500 deadlift at a boy weight of 230, now many years later I keep adding to each number slowly --☠️
Yeah losing the added weight took longer then I wanted but all and all I’m happy with it
100%. It did take longer than expected due to some health markers being out of whack for a while, but I lost a good amount of weight, joints feel a lot better, and I was able to get back under the barbell. I was mostly a powerlifter but I recently gave that up just because I got tired of the constant injuries, joint pain issues, especially at my age. Switched over to "bodybuilding" and physically the transformation has been pretty night and day. I have goals of getting lean and honestly it feels feasible now for the first time. I'm really happy with the way I look in the mirror. Me two or three years ago would have never believed I could look the way I do now compared to 2023. So yeah, I'd definitely say I reached my original fitness goal.
Yep. Just took a bit longer than that summer body I started working on in 2012.
When I first started working out, my original goal was just to get healthier and feel more energetic. I did achieve that, which felt like reaching the first checkpoint in stickman hook—each swing forward brings new challenges and goals! It's all about celebrating those early wins while continuing to push ourselves further.
When I first started working out, my original goal was just to get healthier and feel more energetic. I did achieve that, which felt like reaching the first checkpoint in [url=https://stickmanhook3.io/]stickman hook[/url]—each swing forward brings new challenges and goals! It's all about celebrating those early wins while continuing to push ourselves further.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on kickstarters like Dbol while test saturates
I prefer anadrol but I have no issue kicking off a cycle with some orals, I know so people don’t like it but it is nice to have the immediate weight gain a strength. I’ve also started injectable cycles with additional pins of lower esters to see quicker results so test e/deca blast but the first 2-4 weeks half the dose is test prop/npp
To not be a fat bastard? Yes. Now I'm a smaller, in better shape bastard
JetLifeMany years of making mistakes and wasting my time. Had no one to show me the ropes, how to work out, how to eat, nothing. Completely self taught and with a lot of sacrifice and determination I am in the best shape of my life at 35 years old.
Shit, I was your stereotypical lazy fat kid when I started lifting at 19 years old. My original goals were to ditch my man boobs, see (literally any) definition in my arms when I flexed, not be embarrassed to take my shirt off at the pool and to get more pussy in general. I started lifting during the end of my second freshman year of college ;-)
Back then, my long term “probably never going to achieve it, but why not try” goal was to have a noticeable vein running down my biceps.
Needless to say, those goals were accomplished almost 2 decades ago. I absolutely caught fire and became addicted to pushing myself as soon as I actually applied myself for the first time in my life and saw noticeable results. It’s been 20 years now, but I still clearly remember the feeling of stepping on the scale after my first week of training and diet and seeing that I had lost 1.5 lbs. I had no clue what I was doing, but I was so out of shape that results came fast and easy. I ended up dropping 80 lbs of body fat the first year while studying and learning how to gain lean mass when the time was right. I (stupidly) ran my first Test-E cycle at 21 annnnnnd here we are now almost 20 years later lmao.
What started with “I want to lose my man boobs and get more pussy” 20 years ago has evolved into me telling my wife last night that “my absolute worst nightmare is to look in the mirror and feel absolutely, 100% satisfied with my physical appearance”
I wouldn’t know WTF to do if I didn’t have something that I felt the need to improve about my body.
Injuries sustained over 20 years of training have limited my raw strength capabilities in certain areas (primarily upper body push movements) but they don’t limit my ability to improve my physique.
So yeah, there’s my story. I crushed my original goals and now I’m terrified of feeling satisfied with my progress. I’m sure 99% of members commenting on this survey can relate.
Excellent topic, Yolked!
I achieved my goals relatively quickly and as a natural. My goal from the beginning was to get big and lean enough that people complimented my physique. Pretty selfish reason I know, but after a year or two into lifting (age 20 or so), when I accomplished my original goal, I began lifting for myself instead of for the attention of others.
Creating new goals that aren’t for attention, that only helps me become a better version of myself became everything to me. I started to enjoy the process, rather than just the gains, and this new mindset has carried with me even outside of lifting. I set new goals almost weekly to help challenge myself, because there is no better feeling than proving your worth to yourself.
Like everyone else here, the gym is everything to me. I’m grateful to have yall to laugh, grow, and struggle with me because it keeps me locked in on my goals. I hope the same for you
My estrogen might be high
I was 142 pounds when I started so I feel great. People that knew me when I was skinny can’t believe that I came this far. Girls I knew from childhood started hooking up with me like crazy when I got bigger. I achieved my goals but I still wanna be bigger. I want to be 202 or around there but when I get there I’ll want to be 225 then when I hit 225 I’ll want to be 250 and so on
Me 10 years ago would be shocked at my current build, but I'm not satisfied... theres those odd days pumped in the gym I look at myself and I'm like gawd dayum whos THAT
I honestly feel like I keep changing my goals as I hit goals. So satisfied in my journey where I’m at but not satisfied and think I can do better in the overall picture of it.
I achieved beyond my first original goals but the issue I have now is I keep wanting more and more.. More muscle, more tone, more lean, exc..
This is something I thought about recently. I had a few different goals and I've met them all at one point or another and occasionally I think to myself "i am so far behind where I used to be" but then a little post nut clarity kicks in.
My original goal was to be an athlete, fast, strong, agile, shredded and I got there relatively easy natty. From there my goal was to get bigger and stronger, i wanted a physique like Steve Reeves but with high strength and I ended up hitting that goal as well. Then I wanted to see how absolutely hard I could push myself, back to peak fitness goals of being as strong as I possibly could be but maintaining athleticism, this is where I started to really experiment with AAS and I got bigger, stronger, faster, at one point I was just running into every damn doorway and wall corner. From there my goals sort of just floundered out, I'd say, even though I'm not at my peak, I'm still fairly happy with where my baseline is and happy that I've not only achieved my main goal but every goal I've ever set for myself after that. I don't think I am able to surpass any of them at this point in my life, so my goals now are just to maintain good health, strength and fitness.
I always wondered if sources used steroids. It’s a good sign you use your own stuff lol
Admirable goals. What prompted your journey from gear consumer to gear procurer? Did that run parallel to your personal goals?
It's definitely easy to get in to a glass half empty mindset doing this shit. Surrounded by guys who are always going to be a little bigger or stronger and younger than you are. All in all I'm real happy personally with where I am now, and looking forward to the future.
Also it's very awesome to have a place like this full of like-minded shitheads who knows the struggles and also know the ingredients for success.
I can't imagine being in your shoes tho UNC. Being able to cook up my own gear. I'd be a dead man hahaha.
Here goes the long story, I just slammed a red bull so I'm primed for being a chatty bitch.
I started as a performance enhanced athlete type, not competitive.
I've always been a nerd, I spent maybe 8yrs reading about AAS before I ever touched them, I wanted to plateau naturally first. Anyways, people knew I knew my shit and would always ask for cycle advice, even before I was running cycles. I had a friend who came to me with a bottle of var and sust and he said "what do you think about my cycle" I said "what cycle? this is enough for 4 weeks, not a cycle" he said "I couldn't afford the whole thing so I got half and next paycheck I'll get the rest" I asked how much he paid and he said "$350" FOR BARELY HALF A CYCLE! I was like, bro, WTF, "I'll get you the rest for $120 from my supplier." so few months went on and more people were hitting me up who were getting gym priced, one dude got some really bad gear that made him sick, not from my supplier but he was getting a good price and went with his own. After that I decided I would start brewing since I knew I could monitor it all and do it right, I sold at wholesale to everyone because I knew it was helping them. Well it got to the point where dudes were no longer ordering single cycles but like 20-50 vials and it was becoming a lot of work, it was fun but still I was taking a risk, so I started selling as low price and making some profit which was cool. I had some crazy elaborate set ups, I like engineering and trying to reinvent the wheel, so that's what I was doing. I was experimenting with how to brew in large batches. At one point I had a vacuum pump that I made myself from a fridge, hooked up to a pressure tank, on a gauge pulling a consistent -20psi running to 20 bottle filters in a room covered with foil and UV sterilization lamps in a hidden room built behind the wall in a crawl space. Cops actually searched there and never seen the hidden room (had a break in, unrelated). Anyways, this goes on for about a year. I popped in to eroids around 2010 as an email source, BFG told me to pound sand and I was like "not for me". My name was Juicebox then. Well, I decided to work as an email rep on other sites as Bluestar, went well but then one of my buddies who was shipping fucked me and ran off with the gear and money, so i paid everyone back and tossed in the towel.
I closed shop for 6 months and then in comes "Lauren". A friend tells me "hey I know someone else who brews and have a website and is having trouble with some blends, can you check it out?" This is...2011 I think? I show up and FML I almost lose my shit. There's some trap house looking chick smoking cigarettes and eating chicken wings filling vials while watching Jersey Shore, dude is over there next to the sink pouring shit through coffee filters. I flipped out "What the fuck are you doing? You're going to fucking kill someone" without thinking, I grabbed everything and dumped it in the sink, he was brewing tren at the time so we're talking a high loss. Keep in mind this dude is about 6'9 400lbs, one of the biggest guys I've ever met and I'm not exactly small, he could literally crush me with one hand. Instead he looks at me, sad like i had just scolded the shit out of him. I show him how to do things properly, I try to run him through everything a few times and finally he says "Do you think you can help me? We can do this together?" So we join up, he's a really nice guy. Shows me his website, I'm like "This is trash" So i remake it, i never believed in fancy but I have always prioritized function. My thinking was "why is there so much conversation for an order? it's inefficient" so I cut that down. Long story short, same shit happens with Lauren. Disappears with a bunch of gear and I'm left holding the bag again. I pay everyone back, this is 2012, most of the OG's remember who i was back then. I was going to close but some things came up, personal, medical, etc. I ended up starting back from 0 and slowly went from there. I don't do this to get rich, I enjoy it to a point but really this is just a platform that allows me to help a lot of people. Most of you guys know my extracurricular activities, some have seen the actual work.
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To answer your questions. Yes it ran parallel. It's strange that I have a complete life here, unknown to the rest of the world and no one knows who I am. In real life, I'm not any of these personas. I've wanted to leave the game many times but I feel like I would be a bit lost if I do, this place is part of who I am.
I don't run gear as much as I used to, I work more than I work out.
And for Bill, I've been high on my own supply for many years. I've also used other brands here just to compare or when there's something I don't stock personally. Also made some weird experimental shit like topical DHB and TNE as a tester. It wasn't cost effective. My mindset is, I want the best, everything I do, I do for me and subsequently others. The orals I got into flavors because I hated liquid orals in everclear, so originally it was the flavored liquids and then it evolved into flavored tabs. Hindsight, I don't think it was a good idea. Ive always worried about kids having access to it...I'm super amped up right now from caffeine, I'm going to stfu now
You have the best stories bro. I fucking love reading them.
Appreciate you, Unc!
Bar just keeps raising. Then add in aging and having to accommodate pain/injuries and the bar just moves all over the place.
Diet is 90% of everything tho. That's usually what sets the goal achievers apart from the failures.
Well said Mr. Pounder