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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?

Nitti's picture

Zyzz! My hero! ❤️ Come at me bro...

WINNING's picture

For me I've always been into the "street fighter game", as a kid. A majority of our games and toys as kids have big muscular characters. Heman and ninja turtle action figures were my favorite. Also I have an uncle the was huge and worked for a supplement company. He would come over and I would be like "damn, I want to get that big." He told me it was "supplements", yea right! Now I know, it was juice. ;)

bigrigger's picture

The old comic book superheroes got me to the gym. There was a puzzle of Larry Scott on the wall framed. Then I saw a picture of Sergio Oliva and thought wow, a living superhero. Then got taken under a boxing trainers wing and have not stopped training since!

SL's picture

Scott Steiner back in his nwo/wcw days, Arnold

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treadinontren's picture

I was born motivated to lift...I came out of my mom and started benching my umbilical cord on the spot

miggymig's picture

My Dad used to run gear back in the early 80's was big as fuck. One day I was in a car accident in an all white are of OC (Im hispanic). I called him and my mom when it happend before they got there the cops told me that if I didnt say I was drunk we would have a problem and hit me in stomach with his night stick. It happend after a high school football game and there was a lot of kids around and the whole crowed mumbled but didnt say shit so I had to say I was drunk. When my Dad showed up he was in a wife beater and sweats he had 22in arms at the time and was abeast he started yelling at me (roid rage big time) for drinking I was more scared of him than the cop so I told him what happened and some people in the crowed varified it. The cops quickly took me out of hand cuffs and apologized. My Dad lost it yelling at the cops telling one "you think your bad messing with a kid like my boy? Why dont you take off your gun and your badge and go around back and we can find out how bad you are" the Cop looked like he wanted to cry and apologized again.......at that moment I wanted to be like my Dad a bad MOFO

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Cooldiver88's picture

Friend in bootcamp and DBZ from my middle/high school days...Keep telling myself i'll look like a super sayin someday.

RickRock1086's picture

Zyzz lmao...

It was knowing that my living GF was cheating on my skinny ass with a big married guy from the gym. Now im bigger than him ;)

SmanUrki's picture

Zyzzz comment was priceless but tht cheating girl thing must have been tough.

PIN_CUSHION's picture

My dad. He was always a big guy, and I wanted to be like him.

only1cat's picture

Drugs I tore my body down & abused myself for several years. I was 160lb at 6'2" was about to kill myself from not eating days on end had internal bleeding. Decided that I was going to go in the opposite direction. I don't look like most these guys on this site but I hope to 1 day. This place & people here are amazing they make me strive to become better than I ever have been. I wish I had found this site years ago!

Trenabolic's picture

I must be old, comic books made me start lifting, I wanted to look like those dam superheroes.

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alayna's picture

Well you look like the Hulk so you achieved your goal ;)

JuniorHealy's picture

Football