cause the weights don’t tell you what to do with your life… also it helps to be strong when your coach gives you the helmet tap and number (hockey players know what I mean)
Because when someone told me ‘Dude, you look pretty jacked’ I was happy for a week even though nothing else that good happened. When people warn me not to get too much more muscular I am happy for the next week and I am just happy now sitting here. Actually, this isn’t really why, it is a pretty sick side benefit I have come to enjoy. I do it to improve myself everytime I go to the gym and to give my diet some sense of direction. Makes eating more enjoyable (I am constantly in a ‘bulking’ phase…). Life rewards the stronger.
All of the above and with a son who is 6’1" and 240, nicknamed “Rock Hard”, the hallways in our house can be kind of dangerous for the weak.
It’s quite simple.
I’ve recently started lifting weights, because I want the power… OF A THOUSAND GODS!
Raises fist in the air as a sign of determination
And I just want to look massive, so nobody bugs me.
Becouse before lifting guys would just push me around the basket when we played. Now (big smile), I just love the feeling when older previously stronger guys can’t budge when you guard them below the basket. HAAAAAA suffer!!!
And offcourse the feeling when u jump over a guy and slam dunk so hard so the whole construction almost brakes and shakes for a minute or so. Well, shure like the silence after that. 
HAAAAA suffer!!!
[quote]Tank53 wrote:
folly wrote:
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
Awesome.
That reminds me. Remember having those conversations as a kid that went like “my daddy could kick your daddy’s butt”? The best part is, your daughter can say it and know its 100% true. But if you met another T-Nation daddy…?[/quote]
Then we’d shake hands and I’d invite him to squat with me on my next ME day.
-folly
[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
i concur w/ every answer thus far.
and its not about the aliens… its about the zombies…
zombies man…creep me out.[/quote]
Me, too they were so much easier to deal with only 30 years ago. But now they are not dumb and slow anymore, oh no…
For me originally it was to help with martial arts. But mainly because I can’t stand being one of the lazy masses, men who are afraid to sweat, get dirty, strain or otherwise utilize their bodies. The majority are emasculated and I don’t want to be. We were meant to be strong and physical. Also because I want to be stronger than I look, not weaker(like the hoi polloi). Plus its a huge subject that you will always learn more about.