Lots of reasons - lifting/running is very important. Yes running too.
- Chicks (looking good)
- General Health
- Strength
- Sport (cricket for me)
Being strong and looking good don’t necessarily have to be different. Looking good is about low bf.
- I am intrisically weak, and despise being so
- The looks I get at the gym from doing front squats, single-hand snatches, and other exercises no one else there performs
- I long to eventually have my “Conan moment”. ie–to be muscular enough that someone asks me “What is best in life”, and I can then reply “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!”
A steady diet of comic books as a kid permanently warped my perception of manhood.
Now, if I could just figure out that x-ray vision thing …
[quote]randman wrote:
cuz there’s nothing else to do…[/quote]
That’s a big part of why I workout. I wasn’t doing anythign else! Plus I derive a lot of satisfaction from it.
Oh, and girls too.
1.keep my sanity
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i like to be strong
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i like to be able to defend myself
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i look better when im active
Initially to get better at sports, and to score chicks. These days, for health, and to create a strong, functional, but mainly aesthetic body. I want to look like a Greek God. And that’s not for anyone else really, just for me, although the ladies can come up and touch my guns and pecs anytime.
On the other hand, if the girl of my dreams walks in and doesn’t like the overly buff guy, I will stop weight lifting in a second.
Some say I am too centered around chicks. I say psha to that.
Size + strength. The need to push myself physcially in some capacity. Girls has very little to do with it at this point. Some women I know like me at the size I’m at. Some preferred me less muscular. Some would like more muscular. My girlfriend likes me slightly less muscular than I currently am but is pretty happy.
- Martial arts: Boxing /BJJ
- Ladies
- Health and fitness
- health
- look good for hot wife
- become a DILF when the time comes
[quote]danmaftei wrote:
On the other hand, if the girl of my dreams walks in and doesn’t like the overly buff guy, I will stop weight lifting in a second.
Some say I am too centered around chicks. I say psha to that.[/quote]
UHHHHH…how is she the girl of YOUR dreams if she doesn’t go for the overly buff guy, i.e., yourself?
Issues.
to improve my sprinting
I also would like to not be refered to as ‘skinny’.
I lift to try to get all big, ripped, chiseled and jacked, oh yeah, and the chicks, can’t ignore the chicks!
Making the Hulk look scrawny when he’s taking a picture with me!
I lift cos I hate seeing stuff on the ground.
I lift for no one but myself. I have had physical struggles with my health that could have made me a worthless hump. I have came back from several serious surgeries and have vowed to myself to never let my body go to waste. I lift to strengthen my body and heal my conscience. I have made tremendous gains in spite of what I been through and that keeps me going. I lift to show that a strong mindset makes a strong body despite adversity.
One reason is that my 11yo daughter calls me “Big Muscle Daddy” and believes that I am the strongest man in the world.
I can’t let her down, now can I?
-folly
I started lifting to lose weight and to impress the ladies. However I haven’t lost a lot of weight but I have lost a lot of fat and gained a lot of muscle.
I continue to lift because it’s interesting to tweek programs and see the effects. Also weight lifting/training is very… relaxing for me.
So that when I wake up every morning and look into the mirror, I am proud of the body and determination God has given me.
I started lifting at 14, I was 6’4" and 150lbs. I desperately wanted to gain weight. Now at 36, 6’6" and 270lbs I’m trying to raise the summit before the long downhill slide. I strength train because I’m too lazy to diet (I like to eat!) and the results are easier to measure than how I look.