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He lifted scumbags into jail for 32 years

Just call and say happy birthday. If he gets shitty then at least you tried. It will feel better than not getting to say happy birthday ever again.

My dad wrestled in high school but nothing serious. He was a vo-tech student so he didn't sport too much. Lifted a little bit and knows some basic bro-science but never really pushed me into an active lifestyle. Mom left when I was young so he fed me mcdonald's frequently as a child and I never learned of my poor eating habits till I was older and very obese. Now dad is miserably married, still working the same job he started at 18, drinks tons of beer and still smokes weed. I'm afraid this is where I'm headed.

He used to, then he let himself go, became a ham moon and refuses to change.
While he taught me work ethic while I was young, I vow to never let myself waste my body like he did. Still a good guy, a little vain and thinks money is everything, but I learned a lot about what I want to be as well as what not to be.
I think every childs goal should be to surpass their parents, and every parents goal should be to encourage it.

Call your father you sack of shit

My dad swims and does the dad routine of every single machine for 20 reps. Good bloke desu

He was a collegiate swimmer, so otter mode.

Ironically I am terrible at swimming. The only water-related father-son activities we did when I was a wee lad were outdoorsy stuff. Fishing, white water rafting, etc. He never even attempted to get me into the sport, although he supported me in whatever other sports I chose.

He does have dat dad grip strength though. Not sure how.

>My dad swims and does the dad routine of every single machine for 20 reps. Good bloke desu
Dude's getting his money's worth at the gym.

Might as well kys now

no, but he was ripped and has forearms of the gods from working on the farm all his life

My dad hates his life and it rubbed off on me.

Every evening when he came home from work, when we were eating dinner he would complain about his job, and how much it sucked, for the entire meal. In the weekend he would drink alot of beer, I mean seriously a shitton. He would probably do it throughout the week aswell but my mom wouldnt let him. He always swears alot and has zero patience for anything.

My dad was a terrible example for me. I dropped out of college because I could never find any motivation to study or make a career. Because I thought "when I start working fulltime, Ill end up like my dad, dead inside and hating life". So now Im stuck indulging on things that offer only short-term satisfaction for as long as I can. My future is fucked

Cool guy. Was a cocaine cowboy til he got pinched in 95 and was gone for my entire childhood. He came back and did the best he could to make up for all the time lost. He calls me almost every day to see how im doing and just kicked someone out of the appartment he owns so i can move in with my girlfriend. We will still pay him the same rent previous owner payed but he would have lowered it or not charged me if i asked him.

Pretty much - if you go to a gym with a pool 80% of the membership cost is cause of that pool lol

No cause he did manual labor his entire life

Also escaped from communist China

He lifted and played football in college. I only got more or less seriously into fitness as a grown up, mid twenties.
He fucked his back pretty bad tho. Now he is kinda bitter, but still an awesome dad all things considered.
I learned how to lift/eat right from him.
So thanks dad :)

Start meditating and drink less. You don't *have* to study, but try to find what can make you content and still make enough to live a lifestyle you want.

>worked his ass off to provide for me and mt 4 other siblings
>didn't lift, but encouraged and supported 3 of my brothers and I to lift
>really musically talented, got us all into playing music
>did farm work with him; he worked his ass off in the sun and then went to other job in the summer to provide for us
>got us all into watching sports at a young age
>gives really great life advice, and is an amazing listener
>always supported my academics, life choices, and taught me a lot about the value of everything I have

The day he leaves this world will be one of the worst days of my life and I know it.
My mom is just as based as dad. I can honestly say I'm proud of my old man.

My dad is pretty awesome. Was shredded at 20, but stayed pretty strong afterwards. Got me into lifting and paying attention to my nutrition. He's more into cardio nowadays, but still encourages my strength training.

>lifts still
>was captain of hockey team in hs
>party bro
tfw dad was/still is cooler than me

Cop dad? I'm sorry user

My dad was fucking ripped from 35 to 45. then he got addicted to benzos. he's clean now but he never got back into lifting.

No, but he could pack quite some strong punches.

When he arrived home drunk and beated me, deep on the inside I knew I wanted to punch that hard someday.

he was in french special forces for some time, he was pretty burly and could bench nearly 200kg
he was in what the americans call "desert storm" or "desert shield"
he liked to poke fun at me when I used to play CoD on my xbox
"are you winning son?"
"damn your guy sure can take a lot of bullets"
"wow that grenade should have leveled that whole building, what a bad game"
"damn your guy sure can take a lot of bullets"
it used to annoy me when I was going through my teenage angst phase where I hated my parents for no reason I can justify now but its pretty damn funny when I look back on it

Military man like his father before him

He's let himself go a bit but the guy's seventy, looks like he's fucking fifty, and has been in combat so I don't blame him.

Too bad he completely rejects me as a son and the only time he talks to me is when I make the effort to and even then the conversations are short and boring. Fucker gave my brother in law his shotguns and pistol for Christmas and I got a fucking bedspread.

I'm a directionless and emotionless piece of shit because of him.

Dad lifted because he worked in construction. He broke his back on the job and died in his bed a year later. He was 59.

He was a semi-professional body builder and runner-up for a Mr. North Carolina competition back in the 80s.

>tfw you don't think you'll ever be as big as he was

Dad is one of the best anesthesiologists in town but is a rabid alcoholic. So bad that my mother divorced him and shot herself in the head when I was 14, which only made his habits worse. His verbal abuse since I was young has given me crippling social anxiety, but I have xanax to thank for my success. Hoping to get an acceptance from med school in the next few weeks so I can get this man the fuck out of my life.

dude why does this happen? My father is also military and very successful in his carreer, managed to escape poverty and is the perfect role model. Yet he treats me like a stepson, and belittles my achievements. I understand teaching humility but the other day he literally told some guests that I'm Ivy League because of the education he was able to offer me, not that I was particularly intelligent. I love the old man, but sometimes I wonder.
>inb4 blogpost

Then stop talking to your father and cut him out of your life.
If you have grandchildren, refuse him access.
You don't need someone like that poisoning your mental health.

He was a pro boxer for 2 or so years, only had a few fights to test the waters, he was average i guess.

His brother was also a pro boxer but had schizophrenia, which being punched in the head repeatedly seemed to make even worse and now he thinks MI5 are following him and that hes going to fight amir Khan. He has a youtube channel where he incoherantly rambles about attacking muslims, talks about how he can leave his body,alex jones, the matrix and the new world order etc. He also has a few of his old boxing clips on there. I would link it but im genuinely scared that if one of you messaged him he'd come and find me and try and kill me or some shit. He started messaging my mum a few years ago and began sending her death threats until she blocked him. Pic related is a still from one of his fights. Hes the blonde dude.

>dad has black belt in taekwondo but stopped with that stuff a few years back
>gotten chubby, but certainly not fat
>whenever we watch tv I poke his gut and tease him about it et.c.
>he just laughs it off et.c.
>recently started hitting the gym
>haven't teased him since
>he seems so happy now
Did I bully my father into the temple of iron?

he used to. Apparently he was able to bench close to 300 in his prime

he still has muscle and would be an absolute bear if he lost weight but he likes his beer too much

My grandpa was an alcoholic and abusive so I know where it comes from but I'd feel like after having such a shit childhood, he'd want a better one for his own son.

It's shitty not having a father figure but I don't actually blame him for anything though I recognize the way he raised me made me an asshole as well. He lives his own life and I live mine. Nothing more I can do

My Uncle did

Worked manual labour all his life so he lifts pretty much every week day. Other than that the only exercise he got was basketball in high school and soccer as a kid.

>dad used to be in good shape
>started drinking a lot
>drinks less now but still has a beer gut
He goes to the gym with my sister but she says he's ready to leave after twenty minutes.

Are you me

He destroyed his knees mowing our shitty hill and can't squat for shit anymore so he just watches tv all day

Retirement is scary

grade A cunt

>lost his temper like an autist on numerous occasions about small things, would throw things and bang doors like a child
>would do this when I was 5 or 6 years old, for things like forgetting to tidy my room
>forced me to eat food I didn't like, still find it hard to eat today
>got angry at me and berated me for things like not being able to sleep, being bullied in school, not socialising enough
>was literally top of my class in most subjects, still never enough for him
>told me that I was going to turn out like my paranoid schizophrenic aunt, as a kid that scared the shit out of me
>calmly told me that he and my mother were getting divorced and it was because of me (I was 12)
>started me reading machiavelli when I was 15
>boasts about bullying people and making people cry at work, he's a high ranking trade union official
>he's giving my 14 year old sister the same treatment he gave me and there's nothing I can do about it

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alcoholic, smoker, manual laborer, anxiety + depression. No lifting there lulz. Good thing only the anxiety and depression rubbed off...

He did and still does. He's a cardio monster, too.
Someday I'll be shredded enough to force him to tell me how proud he is.
Someday.

My dad was an amateur wrestler, went round the country as a masked wrestler, he was monstrous 6'6 and about 300 lbs mostly muscle, roided for most of it.

My dad is fat, and didn;t lift once in his life. He keeps quitting jobs and honestly sometime I feel more like a man than he is, and lose respect for him.

We all outdo our dads someday, user. Its just that in your case it was far too easy.

He wasn't around much, but his work ethic was inspirational, I think he had like over a year of sick time when he retired. I can recall two instances in my life that he called in his and both were for broken bones.

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Dad is 5'9", 170 lbs and 54. Legit squats 180 kg 3 x 5 and DLs 215 x 3 x 5. He's the one that got me into lifting (and he only started when he was ~45 or so). He thinks Rippetoe is a god and idolizes him.

It's retarded.

Also, I'm 100% not making this up. Those are his actual stats.

When I mention that most people my age can't even do that he says "yeah I don't get it, maybe they're just fucking pussies or something".

For the record, when I started squatting I was doing 180 3 x 5 after ~7 months at a super scrawny 180 lbs, 6'. So obviously he has good genetics and passed them down to me.

It still looks retarded when this old manlet is squatting 4 pl8 while some buff Chad next to him is struggling with 2.

He was a cop, so he did a lot of bodyweight stuff. Used to always brag to me that he could do more sit-ups than anyone else in his unit or whatever.

He retired early to work in private security and was eventually laid off. Now he mostly plays games on his laptop and watches bad movies. We don't have much of a relationship.

mine was super fit more-so cardio but he was built. doing crazy flips off diving boards, benching my mother and me and shit

then one day he sold all his hotrods and all terrains and binged tv for years and got fat. now im worried hes gunna die of a heart attack

>got hit on the head age 25 at work
>woke up a week later in hospital
>diagnosed epileptic
>meds say dont drive/operate anything machine wise
>doctor sqys just pick up disability and sit at home. Aint noone gonna employ you
>goes back to work
>builds up to £25k a year late 80s (fucking good for manual job)

>the mans literal refusal to stay at home not working is the reason they could afford to have me, let alone my brother or the decent life we had growing up

Well, from your dad's point of view, Rip pretty much is.

Think about it: Rippletits is old and fat as fuck, yet strong as fuck (have you seen him do pull-ups? at his weight from a dead-hang? sheeet), and has made an empire out of strength training young men to follow in his footsteps. He's basically what your dad did x1000.

Who else is he going to look up to? Scoobs? lol

Dad is basically disabled. He used to lift with his little bro and do loads of gymnastics back in the day. Nowadays ge basically lives on meds and has trouble even performing simple day-to-day tasks. He used be ripped as fuck, and I want to reach what he was in order to respect his memory. Whenever I feel like quitting or even stopping mid-set I think about that. It keeps me motivated.

Few Finnish national championships, European championship silver, IFBB amateur heavyweight World Championships participations few times (no medals tho), Masters over 40 two medals.

So yeah, he lifts and i mirin.
Also i lift because of my dad.

Haha.

Yeah he lifts and drives motorcycles and is part of a weapon club. My dad is radder than yours.

He's 5`4. A physician. Never played sports. Came from abject poverty into wealth, professional success and political power.Never saw him bow to anyone, he's always been the boss wherever I've been. Thinks lifting weights is a waste of time. Got my mom, who is 5`10, with ease. Never cried over a chick, never gave me more advice than "study hard" and "be a man".

Stoic and proud.

Yea, not heaps though. In highschool he was a wrestler, learnt the basics of fitness. Then he farmed for years. When he got an office job he started going out of his way to keep fit. Brought us a massive trampoline which we used for hours every day with him as a kid while other kids had xbox's.
Took us mountainbiking every weekend through our teens. He started lifting weights when me and my brother did.
Thanks dad.

Is your dad Vietnamese?

nah mang im not risking that shit

5'11.
Grew up in the ultimate poo in the loo village in Pakistan. His dad was a military man so he grew up taking many a beating and use to be the stronkest in his village.
Somehow managed to become a doctor who looks at puss. Has delivered babies of all races. Once delivered a baby on gunpoint from some nut in South Africa.
Has kinda lost his way the last 10 years or so but still love him. Only wish he had me earlier as I doubt he'll live to see my children.

military for 30 years. He never lifted but he always had big forearms because of it. He was just otter mode from all the bodyweight shit. My forearms didn't get as big as him until I hit about 900 total which didn't make sense considering he can only do 1pl8

What did he do in the military? Some of the weapons are pretty heavy and you have to carry them for long distances.

Pajeet my son, is that you?

He was a non-competitive powerlifter before he got arrested. I don't keep up with him anymore, but after he almost died in a car accident a couple years ago, I have ago feeling he is completely done with that

he was a logistics chief meaning he sat at the desk all day. They just do fitness shit all the time, sparring, shooting range, whatever the fuck idk

No.

He also always had women all over him. He isn't even sociable, he has Aspergers but he's not shy. He's just strong, direct and no-nonsense.

He think lifting for women is unmanly and sign of a weak man since A. vanity is for faggots and B. women have always wanted him

No, but he frequently played hockey and baseball into his 30's.

...

Pop was a cross-country runner and football player in high school. Then he was in the army for 20 years. Before he retired I used to watch him do what I realize now were really lightweight lifts with a basic bench and barbell set in the basement. He also ran every afternoon. Sometimes I would follow him on my bike, but he could jog further than I was willing to ride, and I usually ended up going back or fucking off to a friends house before he was even halfway done with his route.

After he retired from the military he didn't do jack shit, though. Can't say that I blame him, because I also got fat and lazy after getting out of the military. I wasn't in 20 years like him, so I recovered, but I totally get why he let himself go.

He lifts, I'm can do as much as him in most things. But after lift 4 years with him I see him slowing down, he's getting old. Idk what I'd do if he was gone...

No but he worked fucking hard and has dat functional strength from being a truck driver and mechanic for years. Huge gut but he was stronger than he looked like.

Who /goodfatherlyfigure/ here
>grew up on a farm, riding horses,working hard, stealing stuff, geting in fights etc.
>played handegg in highschool
>was big guy
>got the nickname "weekly" in college cause he had a new bitch every week (it sounded cool in the 70's fuck off)
>after college settled with a wife-material qt
>got a high paying job and got fat but still stronger than me and anyone I know really
>almost 50 and still seen him knock people out with a single headbutt to the face
>Thanks to him I know how to shoot and hunt, throw a knife/axe, not get beaten up on the street,get what I want and just not be a total loser
I haven't really achieved anything much but honestly if it wasn't for him I'd be a fucking failure.
but to answer the question I don't think he ever lifted seriously

My dad was a bender

my dad grew up in a poor farm and became a rich surgeon. he worked since he was 6. cold as ice, never gave me a hug or a compliment. nithing i ever did was good enough.

He runs
He and his wife are doing a free crossfit course as part of their new years nonsense

Yes

nope
he did calisthenics and was MVP of his school's basketball team

My dad was aesthetic as hell. When he was growing up he used to play tennis with KGB agents and CIA agents that were friendly with each other in Jamaica (We're white). They would play against each other while on break from overthrowing established governments in the developing countries in the Caribbean, Central, and South America.

We have a tennis court at our house in South Florida, but he got exploding knees into his 40s and is now obese unfortunately. Also he keeps eating shitty Jamaican food loaded in cruddy carbs and sugar.

Yeah, he lifted in prison. Stopped a while ago though, he does a lot of physical labour so he's still in decent shape.

>In middle school, just got home from football practice to make him proud
>Dad's car got towed home
>Ramp goes down
>Tow truck driver got the rear tires stuck some fuck way
>Dad says "I got it"
>Picks the rear end of the car up and walks that shit right off the ramp
>Old tow truck driver stares in awe of what an actual man looks like
>At 12 years old I was blown the fuck away
>Dad pays him and he goes away

Six years later and I'm a bitch compared to that shit, I can maybe get a 3 1/2 diddly if I'm pumped up. Dad also got me to go full Veeky Forumstist because he didn't want to work on cars while pulling 12-13 hour shifts and driving an hour each way. He's an awesome person and a fucking monster, he just got out of neck surgery last Friday.

Pic related. His neck

Tl;dr
Dad's a real man and I'm a bitch, he's also a better man than I

lol. ditto

My dad was eternal ottermode until he passed from cancer. Don't know how he did it- he just worked hard all the time. Even when he was on chemo he beat my as in a grapple one time. I have his adjustable dumbells from when he was my age and used to work out. I love them, and use them everyday. He wasn't a beast but fuck he was crazy strong and healthy. When we went out people assumed he was my older brother.

My dad lifted in the 80s but then stopped.

I just don't understand how he still has mass to this day.