Why Did You Start Lifting?

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[quote]fisch wrote:
As I sit here eating a PB sandwich, I got to thinking: why did T-Nation members start lifting weights? I’m interested to know. I don’t mean why you PL/BB/whatever, I mean when you first started lifting, why did you decide to lift?

I first started lifting because I wanted to get strong enough to play high school sports. Now I lift just because I want to be strong. I don’t think I could give up weightlifting, I feel much better doing it.[/quote]

well dude you also live in Nebraska so its not like you have a whole lot of other options.

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When I found out I was third-string inside linebacker. Three years later I’m starting varsity.

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Because i boxed at 205, but walked around at 240lb, it would get really hard to cut down weight.

To be real, i stopped boxing because a bunch of people from my school came to watch the fight, and even though i won, the most interesting shit was how fat i looked next to the other guy…

After my first week of lifting (boxing coach didn’t have us doing weights), i fell in love with it.

I wanted to look like Franco, and then over time i realized i no longer cared about progress on the scale and the mirror, and that i just wanted to lift heavy shit.

Franco is still my idol though, big guy, strong as fuck and a very good down to earth guy.

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first it was for football, now i just need to do it if i don’t lift i get depressed

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People seem to expect a simple answer, like it all comes down to one root cause, or one moment where everything changed. I don’t know. I lift because it’s essential. Why would anybody not lift?

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I was fat. I didn’t want to be a stick after dieting either so I lifted. Then soon lifting became an outlet for rage/depression from school. Very cathartic.

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Originally??? Poontang. Now I lift because I enjoy it too and I want big numbers.

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I didn’t want to grow old.
I failed - but I love lifting iron now.

I gave up smoking, I gave up drinking, I needed something else to give up later in life.

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Had enough of the question. “Wow your tall, I bet you play basketball”

Yes I am tall and I am still somewhat skinny. But no I do not, nor have I ever, played basketball

And yes of course, the women.

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For me, a friend of mine had started working out when we were in high school. After I heard him talking about it for a while I started working out with him. Before you know it, I was hooked.

I remember watching Lee Haney’s workout and Bodyshaping (mostly to check out Kiana) for info as well as reading Flex Magazine.

I eventually stumbled onto MM2K and we all now how that story ended so here I am today.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
fisch wrote:
As I sit here eating a PB sandwich, I got to thinking: why did T-Nation members start lifting weights? I’m interested to know. I don’t mean why you PL/BB/whatever, I mean when you first started lifting, why did you decide to lift?

I first started lifting because I wanted to get strong enough to play high school sports. Now I lift just because I want to be strong. I don’t think I could give up weightlifting, I feel much better doing it.

well dude you also live in Nebraska so its not like you have a whole lot of other options.[/quote]

I could go cow tipping!..Yeah, theres really nothing else to do.

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To loose weight (read: get pussy). I hate ‘cardio’, so weights seemed the only option at the time.

Started at typical 5x5 fullbody M/W/F for a year. Had a break for almost a year, started olympic weightlifting, started rugby.

Now I actually get depressed when I don’t lift. A month ago I had a wee knee injury and the worst part about it, was no sqautting :wink:

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'Cuz all my friends are old and fat, I don’t feel like joining that ‘crowd’, per se.

Love to workout (enjoy pain, I guess), love to look better than any of my friends or family, cool to get the uncomfortable glances from the opposite sex (when they don’t know you see them staring at you), able to walk up to any female regardless of their relative level of beauty and start a conversation (aka self confidence), love the pump, love being able to do anything physical I want to do (mini triathlons, 50 mile mountain bike ride, run for 12 miles), go without shirt whenever I want.

So, in summary, I do it for sex and for myself, and I feel like SHIT if I don’t.

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I was inspired by Frank Yang’s videos. Everytime I deadlift now I yell out “MOTHAFUCKA!”.

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I wanted to be a big motherfucker, but I only got it half right.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
youre from melbourne? do you shuffle? i always thought itd be sick to a bodybuildereque guy gliding

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LOL I actually practiced the shuffle for a while a little while ago. I do realize it is a little ghey, but a good shuffler always is impressive.

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Because at age 30 I moved to a country where skinny people exist, finally realized what skinny people look like, and decided I don’t want to be one.

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[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
People seem to expect a simple answer, like it all comes down to one root cause, or one moment where everything changed. I don’t know. I lift because it’s essential. Why would anybody not lift?[/quote]

+1

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[quote]samky wrote:
I wanted to be a big motherfucker, but I only got it half right.[/quote]

HA, that is great!

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[quote]ty45 wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
youre from melbourne? do you shuffle? i always thought itd be sick to a bodybuildereque guy gliding

LOL I actually practiced the shuffle for a while a little while ago. I do realize it is a little ghey, but a good shuffler always is impressive.

don’t shuffle and the places i usually go on the weekend beat up those that do…I do know what your talking about though and yes it is homosexual