Yeah, I am glad I can’t find a old pic of me. When I was young I looked like an anorexic blond chuckie doll. Early teens, I just looked small and frumpy. X, Stu and the rest of you who are putting in work and making it happen, mad kudos to you all!
I started lifting my first plastic weight set in 8th grade, then real weights in high school, for sports. I wasn’t naturally very strong to begin with, and a succession of football injuries left me with nerve damage in my left shoulder/arm, and my upper-body progress in my first three years of lifting was a fraction of what it should have been. By my senior year, everyone who I’d started lifitng with had blown past me strength-wise, and I was embarrassed by how weak I was.
That stayed with me through college sports, as it took me years to get my strength up to where it should have been. I still lift to get stonger; my strength goals and size golas are both equally important. I HATE getting weaker at any main lifts. I think I almost have a disorder that way.
I always have been an athlete. Played 3 sports a season since I was 12 and was planning on playing college football at a pretty high level, but those dreams were pretty much crushed by a serious knee injury and three surgeries between age 18-19. Since football was done, I searched for about a year and a half for a sport that required the dedication that was necessary in football to succeed and I found bodybuilding.
What I love most about it is that it is a 24/7 sport. To be serious, there is no “offseason,” no coasting period, or not time where you can take off. If you want to truly succeed, everything must be perfect all the time, and you must calculate everything you do.
That full-time commitment is something that I love and see as the aspect of this sport that separates those that lift and those that are bodybuilders.
[quote]Lil J76 wrote:
Yeah, I am glad I can’t find a old pic of me. When I was young I looked like an anorexic blond chuckie doll. Early teens, I just looked small and frumpy. X, Stu and the rest of you who are putting in work and making it happen, mad kudos to you all![/quote]
I found my yearbook pic today on a website I used back in college for pictures (before you could download the shit directly from a camera to your email).
Needless to say, all big guys were NOT born that way.
X, that is awesome! lol… I am diggin the glasses bro.Huge transformation X!!! Now I gotta go find mine, so you all can die laughing.
[quote]Lil J76 wrote:
X, that is awesome! lol… I am diggin the glasses bro.Huge transformation X!!! Now I gotta go find mine, so you all can die laughing.[/quote]
Man, people I show that to don’t believe it. My cousin was reminding me yesterday how I used to look when we first got to college.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Lil J76 wrote:
Yeah, I am glad I can’t find a old pic of me. When I was young I looked like an anorexic blond chuckie doll. Early teens, I just looked small and frumpy. X, Stu and the rest of you who are putting in work and making it happen, mad kudos to you all![/quote]
I found my yearbook pic today on a website I used back in college for pictures (before you could download the shit directly from a camera to your email).
Needless to say, all big guys were NOT born that way.[/quote]
Lmfao. I really thought you were exaggerating when you said your before picture was nerdier than mine but I was definitely wrong.
[quote]kingbeef323 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Lil J76 wrote:
Yeah, I am glad I can’t find a old pic of me. When I was young I looked like an anorexic blond chuckie doll. Early teens, I just looked small and frumpy. X, Stu and the rest of you who are putting in work and making it happen, mad kudos to you all![/quote]
I found my yearbook pic today on a website I used back in college for pictures (before you could download the shit directly from a camera to your email).
Needless to say, all big guys were NOT born that way.[/quote]
Lmfao. I really thought you were exaggerating when you said your before picture was nerdier than mine but I was definitely wrong.[/quote]
LOL!!
I was the living real life Urkle. I didn’t get laid until those windshields I had for glasses came off.
Haha, suddenly I feel so much better about my childhood!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Lil J76 wrote:
Yeah, I am glad I can’t find a old pic of me. When I was young I looked like an anorexic blond chuckie doll. Early teens, I just looked small and frumpy. X, Stu and the rest of you who are putting in work and making it happen, mad kudos to you all![/quote]
I found my yearbook pic today on a website I used back in college for pictures (before you could download the shit directly from a camera to your email).
Needless to say, all big guys were NOT born that way.[/quote]
approximately how many hamburgers and steaks did it take to go from said picture to your avi? LOL
[quote]inkcreep wrote:
I posted this in another thread as my “oh shit moment”, but it was seeing this picture. The bad thing is, I thought I looked good at the time. I had 19 inch arms and I was pretty damn strong. I was one of those eternal bulkers, because plain and simple I was lazy and getting into real shape took more discipline than I had at that time in my life. [/quote]
holy shit. thats an impressive change too. kudos on ending the eternal bulk so many of us are stuck in and getting ripped.
[quote]kingbeef323 wrote:
Looking like this, lol. No one had any hesitation to pick on/mess with me back then. It got tiring.[/quote]
shiet, thats a serious change too. how many lbs difference between the two pics?
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
I guess if everyone is posting before pictures…
(me ~60lbs ago)
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Lol, I wish I had pics of me flexing when I started.
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
[quote]kingbeef323 wrote:
Looking like this, lol. No one had any hesitation to pick on/mess with me back then. It got tiring.[/quote]
shiet, thats a serious change too. how many lbs difference between the two pics?[/quote]
80 lbs or so.
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
approximately how many hamburgers and steaks did it take to go from said picture to your avi? LOL[/quote]
Hamburgers? I’m sure the big man was downing Brontosaurus burgers like they were going out of style 
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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
approximately how many hamburgers and steaks did it take to go from said picture to your avi? LOL[/quote]
Hamburgers? I’m sure the big man was downing Brontosaurus burgers like they were going out of style
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and with that first bite, ProfessorX was born.
(i hope the pic shows up)
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Lil J76 wrote:
Yeah, I am glad I can’t find a old pic of me. When I was young I looked like an anorexic blond chuckie doll. Early teens, I just looked small and frumpy. X, Stu and the rest of you who are putting in work and making it happen, mad kudos to you all![/quote]
I found my yearbook pic today on a website I used back in college for pictures (before you could download the shit directly from a camera to your email).
Needless to say, all big guys were NOT born that way.[/quote]
That’s bloody inspirational
oooh can I play!
Me AFTER a year of “bodybuilding” (think around 150-160lbs), imagine how skinny I was at 130-140lbs before lifting at 19
Me about 50lbs heavier a year or so later (after I discovered the power of the fork!)
Oh, I’ve been much fatter than that too (was around 20% bodyfat), but for some weird reason I took no photos, strange huh?
PX, didn’t you say you were a Que? Haha how did you make it through being on line?!