I Lift Weights because...

Iron Edges · 02-13-2006, 09:52 PM

I started lifting weights :weight_li to loose weight and to live a healthy :dumbells: life.
:dumbells: Why did ya'll start lifting weights? :weight_li

gettinripped · 02-13-2006, 09:54 PM

I initially started to lose weight as well, then I became hooked!
I love to see muscle

**Trick D** · 02-13-2006, 09:59 PM

I started because I was smaller than hell. I keep lifting because I am still small... see the on going theme?

A_N_91 · 02-13-2006, 10:21 PM

I lift weights to lose fat (look better in general), get massively strong and big, and make people look at me in disgust for being so large.

LOL at the last one, I was just reading some AnimalPak articles and I just had to write it.

pammiejoe6 · 02-13-2006, 10:24 PM

i initially started lifting weights to help lose fat and gain lean body mass.....that very first time i picked up the barbell i fell in LOVE!!

**MASSIVE** · 02-14-2006, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iron Edges

I started lifting weights :weight_li to loose weight and to live a healthy :dumbells: life.
:dumbells: Why did ya'll start lifting weights? :weight_li

I lift weights because....I get bigger, I get Massive, I get confident, I love the burn, I love the pain in my tris, the pain in my chest, the sweat on my face, I love eating 8 times a day, I love the look on people's faces when I carry my gallon jug, my 30 vists to the bathroom during class, lifting the weight off the floor, I lift for my body, I lift for my health, I lift for me

**bigDman** · 02-14-2006, 12:48 AM

i lift for sports

**DJSTARER** · 02-14-2006, 12:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A_N_91

I lift weights to lose fat (look better in general), get massively strong and big, and make people look at me in disgust for being so large.

LOL at the last one, I was just reading some AnimalPak articles and I just had to write it.

I love Animal Pak ads.

I lift to get ripped and strong. Plain and simple

Iron Edges · 02-14-2006, 12:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MASSIVE

I lift weights because....I get bigger, I get Massive, I get confident, I love the burn, I love the pain in my tris, the pain in my chest, the sweat on my face, I love eating 8 times a day, I love the look on people's faces when I carry my gallon jug, my 30 vists to the bathroom during class, lifting the weight off the floor, I lift for my body, I lift for my health, I lift for me

Very Nicely said!! :nosthumbs

**skelooth** · 02-14-2006, 01:29 AM

:ranton:

I was feeling down the other night and was just talking about this the other day with my buddy online..... He's the one who originally linked me to bb.com in august '04....

I started lifting because I had my heart crushed by a girl I loved, I was fatter than ever at 300lbs. I was getting so fat that I was getting a double chin and was losing my dick in a roll of fat. I was disgusting. I tried to date via personals and the girls I was meeting were so ugly....

I have this horrible fear of being lonely the rest of my life. I've moved around so much growing up that I have no close friends anymore. Hell, I have no friends, and when I first started lifting i was new here and knew NO ONE.

I thought losing weight would help me get a girlfriend or make some friends. That's really the only thing I wanted. I went from 300lbs all the way down to 200lbs, I was probably 5lbs away from seein an ab or two... now I'm bulked up to 233lbs and built like a mac truck, probably 16.5% bodyfat.

Why?? Why am I still doing it? I still have no friends, I still have no girls. I actually get less action now than I did when I was fat. Lifting weights has done NOTHING that I originally set out for it to do.

So why am I still balls to the wall with it? I have this crazy dreams of getting on stage competing, being a mass monster.... but why? I'm still not happy. There's no excuse for me to not have women now, I'm in better shape than 80% of my peers, and I could pick up and toss 98% of them like a sack of shit. So maybe that's why I do it.

Maybe I like the respect you get from being one big mother****er. After society shitting on me, spitting at me, and utterly rejecting me for being fat.... it feels like to have the power to walk up next to someone and make them feel small. Because that's how I felt... small, and insignificant... oxymoron eh?

I keep lifting because I don't know any better. In the back of my mind i still think "Hey if I get abs I will get a girlfriend". Reality and experience dictate it's a pipe dream.... but that's the subconcious drive that keeps me on the brink of insanity. I've got some serious issues and probably need to talk to a therapist.....

A_N_91 · 02-14-2006, 01:33 AM

^Shut up fat boy:rock2: , lol j/p wit you

That's a really nice post. I can relate to it a bit. In short, I was fat, lost weight, and still didn't get any, so I'm working out for other reasons.

**skelooth** · 02-14-2006, 01:37 AM

I'm not, i'm still living the lie :yes:

It wasn't bad enough I was feeling down the other night, but then my friend lays into me "Bro, don't get mad BUT...." lol and tells me how it is with my constant obsession with weight lifting and how it will never be good enough for me and how I'm worse than an anorexic, and how my social problems are my own fault...

The problem is he made some good points :rock2:

A_N_91 · 02-14-2006, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by skelooth

I'm not, i'm still living the lie :yes:

:fingersxd I still think about it sometimes too.

MyTMouse · 02-14-2006, 01:45 AM

i lift weights because the skater boys don't weigh enough anymore for me to get a good workout from kickin the crap out of them.

no, honestly, I started lifting cuz I was too skinny. Now I lift to stay clean. After I got away from drugs and alcohol from high school, I started making killer gains. Bodybuilding is my biggest motivation to live a clean healthy life.

**MASSIVE** · 02-14-2006, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by MyTMouse

i lift weights because the skater boys don't weigh enough anymore for me to get a good workout from kickin the crap out of them.

no, honestly, I started lifting cuz I was too skinny. Now I lift to stay clean. After I got away from drugs and alcohol from high school, I started making killer gains. Bodybuilding is my biggest motivation to live a clean healthy life.

ROFL!

DAMN...did that mouse find your SD!?...nive avy

**DarkFalcon** · 02-14-2006, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skelooth

I keep lifting because I don't know any better. In the back of my mind i still think "Hey if I get abs I will get a girlfriend". Reality and experience dictate it's a pipe dream.... but that's the subconcious drive that keeps me on the brink of insanity. I've got some serious issues and probably need to talk to a therapist.....

:yes: You need help..lol.
I started lifting because I was always the small skinny kid. I liked being strong and hard so I kept it up. Now I lift because I like being strong and hard..lol. Nothing has changed except I'm a bit bigger then I was growing up.

MyTMouse · 02-14-2006, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by MASSIVE

ROFL!

DAMN...did that mouse find your SD!?...nive avy

laugh if you want. only mouse around that can squat a house cat!!!

**MASSIVE** · 02-14-2006, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkFalcon

...I liked being strong and hard so I kept it up.

We're still talking about BB, right?

starman · 02-14-2006, 09:48 PM

Track!!!!!!!!!!

02-13-2006, 09:52 PM	#1
Iron Edges Pro Stature Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 284 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 5	I Lift Weights because... I started lifting weights :weight_li to loose weight and to live a healthy :dumbells: life. :dumbells: Why did ya'll start lifting weights? :weight_li

02-13-2006, 09:54 PM	#2
gettinripped Amateur Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 63 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 3	I initially started to lose weight as well, then I became hooked! I love to see muscle __________________ follow my progress http://steel-butterfly.blogspot.com

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02-14-2006, 01:29 AM	#10
skelooth eh heh heh Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Behind you Posts: 7,183 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 154	:ranton: I was feeling down the other night and was just talking about this the other day with my buddy online..... He's the one who originally linked me to bb.com in august '04.... I started lifting because I had my heart crushed by a girl I loved, I was fatter than ever at 300lbs. I was getting so fat that I was getting a double chin and was losing my dick in a roll of fat. I was disgusting. I tried to date via personals and the girls I was meeting were so ugly.... I have this horrible fear of being lonely the rest of my life. I've moved around so much growing up that I have no close friends anymore. Hell, I have no friends, and when I first started lifting i was new here and knew NO ONE. I thought losing weight would help me get a girlfriend or make some friends. That's really the only thing I wanted. I went from 300lbs all the way down to 200lbs, I was probably 5lbs away from seein an ab or two... now I'm bulked up to 233lbs and built like a mac truck, probably 16.5% bodyfat. Why?? Why am I still doing it? I still have no friends, I still have no girls. I actually get less action now than I did when I was fat. Lifting weights has done NOTHING that I originally set out for it to do. So why am I still balls to the wall with it? I have this crazy dreams of getting on stage competing, being a mass monster.... but why? I'm still not happy. There's no excuse for me to not have women now, I'm in better shape than 80% of my peers, and I could pick up and toss 98% of them like a sack of shit. So maybe that's why I do it. Maybe I like the respect you get from being one big mother****er. After society shitting on me, spitting at me, and utterly rejecting me for being fat.... it feels like to have the power to walk up next to someone and make them feel small. Because that's how I felt... small, and insignificant... oxymoron eh? I keep lifting because I don't know any better. In the back of my mind i still think "Hey if I get abs I will get a girlfriend". Reality and experience dictate it's a pipe dream.... but that's the subconcious drive that keeps me on the brink of insanity. I've got some serious issues and probably need to talk to a therapist..... __________________

02-14-2006, 01:37 AM	#12
skelooth eh heh heh Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Behind you Posts: 7,183 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 154	I'm not, i'm still living the lie :yes: It wasn't bad enough I was feeling down the other night, but then my friend lays into me "Bro, don't get mad BUT...." lol and tells me how it is with my constant obsession with weight lifting and how it will never be good enough for me and how I'm worse than an anorexic, and how my social problems are my own fault... The problem is he made some good points :rock2: __________________

02-13-2006, 10:21 PM	#4
A_N_91 Pro Stature Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 849 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 11	I lift weights to lose fat (look better in general), get massively strong and big, and make people look at me in disgust for being so large. LOL at the last one, I was just reading some AnimalPak articles and I just had to write it.

02-13-2006, 10:24 PM	#5
pammiejoe6 Pink Members Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: south texas Posts: 4,163 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 84	i initially started lifting weights to help lose fat and gain lean body mass.....that very first time i picked up the barbell i fell in LOVE!!

02-14-2006, 01:33 AM	#11
A_N_91 Pro Stature Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 849 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 11	^Shut up fat boy:rock2: , lol j/p wit you That's a really nice post. I can relate to it a bit. In short, I was fat, lost weight, and still didn't get any, so I'm working out for other reasons.

02-14-2006, 01:45 AM	#14
MyTMouse Pro Stature Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 264 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 6	i lift weights because the skater boys don't weigh enough anymore for me to get a good workout from kickin the crap out of them. no, honestly, I started lifting cuz I was too skinny. Now I lift to stay clean. After I got away from drugs and alcohol from high school, I started making killer gains. Bodybuilding is my biggest motivation to live a clean healthy life.

02-14-2006, 09:48 PM	#19
starman Amateur Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 78 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 3	Track!!!!!!!!!! __________________ Grrrrr... Im a thrower.

02-14-2006, 09:49 PM	#20
DarkFalcon I've got a RAGING clue! Join Date: May 2005 Location: dnyc99's cleaning staff Posts: 11,511 Recipes: 0 <