posted Wed, 02/19/2014 - 17:08
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What got you started on weightlifting
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I'm sure this has been asked before but what got everyone lifting? Was it a friend? A movie? Health reasons?
For me personally, when I was a kid, I saw Terminator 2 and I saw how big Arnold was and that's when I knew I wanted to be big. Eventually I got tired of being a bean pole and signed up at a local gym and that's when my journey began
What about you guys?
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I was being bullied in school. I started lifting and hitting my brothers heavy bag in my dads garage one summer. My god I got big quick. Solid 205 pounds going to eighth grade. And I got attitude with it. First week I got in a scuffle at lunch with a boy that thought nothing has changed. I grabbed a hold of him threw him to the ground and dropped bombs till the teachers broke it up. With it being at lunch everyone saw. And I knew so I started calling who else wants some. Never got bullied again after that. Ah the memories
I was 9 years old and becoming a fat kid. I decided I didnt want to be a fat kid so I started doing situps and push ups in my room at night and using my moms little 3lb dumbbells when I was left home alone. Of all the things a kid could go for when the parents arent around and I go for the dumbbells lol, it was destiny!
I started working out because I was always the smallest in my group of friends. My best friend and his family all called me the "Ethiopian" because I was so skinny and small. I graduated high school at a whopping 115lbs. A year later I started working out which was on and off til I turned 20. That's when I got serious about not just lifting but also my diet and started packing on the lbs. My friends now refer to me as the buff guy.
I was a little 100lb guy that got bullied a lot.
So I started lifting to bulk up hoping that they'd leave me alone. To this dAy I still can't stand a bully. Especially bullies in the gym.
AnonExactly this & having a very abusive step father while I was young... that conveniently I never had the chance to come across again when I got big.
Now I just do it because I love training seeing my body progress & having consistently in my life keeps me sane.
I had the same problem.. only it was real father..real asshole. My brother beat him up.. didnt do a very good job. Had it been me.. there would have been a greasy stain where he was standing.
Yeah my pops was a piece of shit too. He liked to use us as punching bags. I've never hit him and our last altercation he got a couple of shots off. I grabbed his wrists and didn't let go no matter how much he struggled. When he got tired I looked him in the eyes and said don't ever touch me again and he didn't. I know not as dramatic as whipping his ass but still effective. I've never seen him scared before until that day. Still though I love him he's my dad even though we haven't spoke for years. I have no respect for him and still think he's a piece of shit but he's still my dad!
My husband is really hot, I gotta try to keep up lol
pumping iron... I was doing Kempo karate, ( had my brown belt). 16 .I didnt understand
how someone could make there body look like that. So I buy a olympic bar and start to bench.
Then I got married and I started working out 4 days a week.
Was in my late twenties but my husband introduced me to the fitness life shortly after we met and I wanted to start losing weight then showed me lifting weights and I fell in love and been obsessed since then! Now all I ever want to do is learn more and see what else I can do. Love seeing the results. After I have been doing it for several years its great to see others get inspired by you and ask questions. To pass on the knowledge n helping others is a great feeling.
I watched my father lift and exercise in our basement after work, so I can only hope my son does the same.
Grew up with role models on TV like Arnold watching all his movies, and The Rock and the rest of the professional wrestlers, seems they all had one thing in common; they were buff. I Looked up to them and thought that was how a man is supposed to look.
Anime things like goku and vegeta
Wolverine I still like them to this day real or not lol it was just amazing to me. Not to mention as I got older I start to see the strong man comp I said to myself its amazing what the human body can do maybe I can achieve powers like this pulling trucks lifting cars I had to be strong bigger faster I just had to do it:)
I was a late starter. I dabbled in my twenties but did not get serious until a few yeara ago. I have always train dogs as a side business and hobbie. This has taken a lot of time away from home and when my son was younger I decided my time was better spent at home rather than traveling and competing. I am very competitive however so I wanted aomething I could challenge myself with. So the addiction started. Now my sons 10 and has interest in working out and training dogs so I guess it has worked out for the best all around.
300 lbs In 11 th grade! Just got tired of being the fat fuck people made fun of ...
Your story is one of my favorites here!
Simply being unhappy with the way I looked. Thought it was time to stop wishing and start doing!
bigwillySame here nothing fancy.
Its simple for me... I got sick of being fat and out of shape.
ThackeronThe Marines, I wanted to be a killer, so I build myself to be a killer. I remember wrestling around with an enemy, and I had an advantage of the fool(thanks to weightlifting+steroids). Long story short, I was on Tren and Equipoise and it got me tempered like crazy...so then I hit the cunt in his fucking balls a lot of times and got his ass on the ground, he was holding on to his balls, and then I pulled out my fucking knife and put it knife in the fool....And it felt good, because I only had my pistol out and the cunt came out of nowhere and tried to wrestle with me,so I dropped my pistol, and he was trying to go for the pistol on the ground, and then I tackled him, and punch his fucking balls as many time as I can, and I went to go pick up my pistol, and I was about to shoot his ass, but then I figured that I'll put my knife in him right in his fucking chest... Tren makes you a crazy SOB, especially when you are trained to kill.
I don't appreciate your continuous reference to the Marines and how where just some mindless ego inflated soldiers, you have issues young man, mother didn't hold your enough, maybe held you to much, I don't know, your attitude is getting tiresome and out of respect for myself and my brothers here I'll bite my tongue and politely ask you if you don't have anything positive and educational to contribute just keep your piehole shut and consider acting like a grown man.
bigwillyHes gone brother.
And BOOM goes the dynamite...... LMFAO@U (this coincidently is the same thing I say right at the end of a sex session) lol just kidding..... The wife would probably quit having sex with me if I said "Boom goes the dynamite" at the end of every romp.
bigwillyCheif I think your about done.
I asked you nicely the first time and you come back sticking the middle finger up at me....... kiss this fucker............... BOOOOOM.
bigwillyI was shocked you didnt get him in my thread last night.
I must have been logged off bro... dont forget its 10.15pm here right now..... time difference catches me out sometimes
bigwillyHey v the realy beauty here is even when he creates a new acount there wont be any mistaken whi this jack ass is.
bigwillyI told every one to just ignore the lil clown.
bigwillyOh you sleep sometimes,lol
Thank u sir
Your an idiot first it was that other post forum now this u are not mature enough for this forum
bigwillyGod this boy is fun.
This is unbelievable
bigwillyThis freakin kid was a diamond in the tuff,lol
ThackeronIt's the reason I started lifting, once you leave bootcamp, you lose a shit load of weight. And I believe that every soldier should be able to use gear
Marines dont call themselves soldiers youngen They call themselves MARINES!. Military channel 121 on Direct Tv. You might learn a little.
bigwillyHes gone bro.lol
I was forced into it from birth. i came out with such a large penis and testicles I was forced to carry excessive weight from straight out of the womb. It was difficult but I persevered
As somebody in the back of the room coughs
(BULLSHIT) ..
lmao! I couldn't think of a good inspirational story so I thought I would take a dramatic license
Ha ha ha ....
Arnold swartzenneger in the movie hercules in New York did it for me... I was amazed how a human could be that big.. After that I was hooked
bigwillyI got sick of being a boney weakling !!
Imported american marvel comics did it for me in the really early days.... pictures of the THOR and Capt America... i used to draw these charachters and build in even more muscle seperation lol...... and then MuscleMag hit the UK and that was that!.... i was addicted.
The first real-life bodybuilding star i ever met at a seminar was Bertil Fox and he just blew my fkn mind i had never seen a human this big in my life and i thought i want some of that lol.
I was cruising some seminars a couple months ago with my good friend Lee Priest ..... fair enough he is a foot shorter than me but fuck me he is impressive to look at even after spending time with him for years he still has my eyes on stalks with his density.
I always like Lee, seems like a really down to earth dude, I thought if he could get big so could anybody! Has fucking tennis ball biceps! I know he loves his tats, still can't believe he got the one on his face.....ouch
lol yeah ... he had a new one put on his right calf just the day before we met up......... i have some pics of him without any stage tan but just a fine coating of oil, i will post a couple up before the end of the week for you guys to have a quick peek ok
Cool, quick question, at your prime what were your stats?
6.1- 270lbs off season - Show prepped @ 250 @ sub 5% BF.
From that you can probably tell i was a Class1 Mr.. (tall class)..... i am now off-season and weigh only 20lbs less than my heaviest weight ever!.. so im not doing too bad even at my age now :))
Hulk Hogan and some other wrestlers.