posted Sat, 01/19/2013 - 19:26
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What age did you start training ?
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For me, the formal training routine begun at 17 yo. And never let it go.
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For me, the formal training routine begun at 17 yo. And never let it go.
Started lifting around 16. Also played baseball and football. I excelled at baseball, but pissed it all away and got hooked on pain killers then later heroin. Took quite a few years off from the gym. I got back into it in my late 20s. I've gained 75lbs of solid muscle since I got clean 5 years ago.
did a lot of stuff when i was younger. (pop warner) , then soccer,then kempo. ( brown belt /black stripe)
then by the time i was 27 , i was in the gym. so its 23 years or so.
last 3 years have been a 6-7 day a week thing for me.
Joined a gym for the first time ever at the ripe old age of 37 and have never looked back ;-)
I started working out at age 14 with the SoloFlex lol. I did everything wrong, trained all my bodyparts 7x a week and drank weider's giant mega mass 4000 thinking i was gonna get like the guys in the BB magazines lol, that's until i started learning and waking up at 5:30 am every morning to watch FlexMagazine workout on ESPN
AnonGreat show, they should bring it back. Never understood why the Weiders didnt start their own cable channel dedicated to bodybuilding.
my senior year in high school is when i started lifting so around 17-18ish
AnonStarted lifting seriously at 23, when I worked at a childrens juvenile center. I seen the bigger staff usually didnt get disrespected so I used to work out an hour before my shift. Knew nothing about nutrition on anything. I was given the Arnold bilble on bodybuilding.....and its been on ever since than.
I started hitting the gym when i was 14 but actually started lifting at 16 for competitive sports. a little size on your opponent never hurts
13 or 14 can't remember exactly, I think 14. My dad was/is a powerlifter and he took me to the gym one day and i loved it. Haven't taken more than a week off straight since then. I still train with him, and we both profit from it, he is the best training partner one could ask for.
breakingfaceCant slack off when your training partner lives in the same house as you, you'll never hear the end of it.
AquaManIt is never too late to start. For sure.
35 I am 39 now.
breakingface13- Low self esteem, horrible at organized sports, father that traveled all week.... My mom bought be 12 personal training sessions with a rugby meat head. First time in my life I really felt cool.
tread-mI reached out when mom was not looking in her routine at the gym one day, drug a 10 pound pink weight back up up in the womb and busted out sets till delivery. Later that year I helped build the house I was born in. Mid 3rd trimester if I remember and rollin the tren train!
breakingfaceLMAO." Later that year I helped build the house I was born in"
Starting lifting weights for good at the age of 21. First time I picked up weights was at 11... Didnt stick with it long though, every year I would lift and quit after a few weeks. So I've been going 4 years strong
Wardi77picked up my first 8lb dumbell from a garage sale at age 13, my grandfather was real into the iron and influenced me,I boxed, wrestled and did some BJJ since age 9. Got real serious with weights at 15 for football and been consistent since.
I started martial arts at 14 and got into tournament fighting seriously after high school I started weight training purely for more power in my punches and kicks but then I started seeing my body developed and I have been hooked ever since.
V-Power-A16, it was a great time, thanks +1 for reminding
i was pumping iron in the womb - getting all those prego hormones got me huge
I could bench 145 when I was 4 years old
CleyonActual weight training started at 14, but after 21 it died off. I got back to the gym a few times through the years, but didn't really commit to the lifestyle change until I was 34.
16, w/ track n field
I started in high school, around 15 or so, but quit after graduation. I proceeded to get really fat...I mean fat. At about 27 I looked in the mirror and said, "this has GOT to be a joke..." Decided to start training again! Its funny, I never saw myself getting soft...it wasnt a gradual realization. It was a sudden epiphany that I was, indeed, a fat fuck. Several years later I'm in the best shape ever...if a little bit more stiff and achy than in high school...
sports my entire life... lifting age 16 !
Prob around 12 is when I was taking it seroius. I would wake up at 4:30 before school and do my jumpsole workout 2xs a week then all upper bodyweight excercises this rest of the week. 13 I started lifting actual weights. Most amazing feeling I had ever felt after my workout. I was hooked.
as soon as a i started high school i started to make myself goals and starting taking things serious,
about 15-16
15-18 on and off high school gym exposure. Sporadic til 20 years old then got proper programming down. Been 100% since except 6 months when I was 22 with an injury.
Actually trying to achieve something through working out, I was probably 15. I lifted weights some when I was 13 or 14. When I got to high school is when I started to take it serious.