I started lifting to gain an athletic advantage. When I actually started seeing my body change in a short amount of time I was hooked. I then began to “Bodybuild”. That and the pump sometimes felt better than cumming (tribute to Arnie).
I have ALWAYS wanted to be big and strong. I loved the incredible hulk when i was really young. I would go around flexing in my diapers. I think it was something i was born with because neither of my parents or anyone i know is into lifting or even fitness. Ive just always wanted to be a big strong guy. More strong than big. I used to say that i wanted to be the guy that walked into Winn Dixie and people just stopped and said, “Oh my god!”
I started lifting when I was 15 for two reasons. Firstly, I was a skinny kid, 5’4" and about 115lbs, and I got picked on a bit, which pissed me off. I wanted to be physically superior to my tormentors and intimidate them. Secondly, because of poontang, and the girl I liked, liked muscles. I went to a boarding school in the uk and started off with a set of dumbells, doing a circuit training type of workout. I had little idea what I was doing, I’d lift the wieghts a bit, then finish off with a pint of milk and a mattersons pork sausage, top class nutrition ;). 4 years later I’m up to 5’6" and 160lbs @9%bf, which isn’t a world beating physique, but I look better than 97% of guys my age, who drink themselves into atrophy. And knowing that if anyone have a problem with you and wants to start a fight, when you can give them a beating, is also satisfying. I’ve started doing Jui Jitsu so if I ever see Tom Stillwell again I’ll murder him. Alone with being a 1st class dickhead, he also stole my poontang from under my nose, so I’ve got a gripe with him.
Rich Gaspari’s striated glutes.
i like being better than other people. i like lifting more than other people. i like lifting more than other people can right in front of their face and knowing that i could laugh at them because they thought they were better than me but deciding to be the bigger man and not laugh, or laugh at them because i hate them and want them to know their place. i like how chicks check me out at the beach and not the guys who dont work out. i like having an advantage at whatever sport i play just because im stronger and bigger than the other guys. yah, that just about sums it up
I was the smallest guy in basic training. I was always playing some kind of sport but never got bit by the iron bug until basic. I was 19 years old, 5’9" and 138 lbs. One of the fellas I was there with was hyooge! So one day I ask him how he got so damn big and he replies “I lift Bro!” Damn did I feel dumb. After I got out of basic to my first base it was on. Now 9 years later I am 215! No abs, but not fat either. 
One day hope to be 238 so I can say I put on 100lbs!!!