Who or what made you start lifting?

This guy's story and attitude!

I worked a labour intensive job and figured getting stronger would make it easier.

I was half right, getting stronger just made me work harder since i could handle a bigger workload :/

watching this show in high school got me on the path to fitness.

Jason Genova, not even memeing, the ments were so great that i decided to go to a gym

>looking up to niggers

Never gonna make it

Loneliness

Fiance let me and was on another cock a week later

>looking up to an inbred kike

Never gonna make it

for about a year, I had a buddy who was into powerlifting and he kept bugging me telling me that I was built to squat. so one day I gave in and went to lift with him and I was actually pretty good on day 1 and it was actually really fun and I've been doing PL ever since.

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Autistic as fuck

I was always pretty athletic when I was younger but never really lifted.
But then I hit my 30's and was drinking too much and getting fat.
I decided to do something about it.
I had a small weight set and a book my parents gave me 20 years ago and started doing a hypertrophy routine.
Then I found Veeky Forums, I read the sticky and continued from there.
I re-found my love of bicycling.
Then I took a break because life required more of my time.
Now I gained a few lbs back and I am hitting the gym pretty hard again.

Is that a common thing for autists to think?

My friend Will was heavy into lifting and got me into the no fap meme and eventually lifting itself. Great guy.

I never said i looked up to him amigo.

A girl from work that rejected me and got together with a guy that's 7 years older than me.

I was a shy, long haired guy with glasses back then. Now I'm almost ripped, no longer shy and short haired. I've never seen her again, though.

Realized that drugs, booze and porn would not make my depression go away, so I just picked up lifting.

I'm still a depressed cunt, but at least I'm not destroying my body with all that other shiit.

The dyel meme made me start desu senpai

>not fapping before every workout
>or even mid-workout for us with home gyms

>jojo
>girls
>wanted to be big and strong

An acquaintance implied that I look weak.
never again

I've heard One of the more positive traits of autism is a higher sense of social responsibility, so yeah I guess that could be seen as autistic

A girl that didn't deserve it.

Fapping before a workout is a bad idea, wouldn't you lose all your energy ? I'm usually in the mood for a nap after I finish

My longing for better looks in the mirror and I want to be more able to play sports and be athletic in general.
I've made gains that I'm liking so far. Hope this works out....

I got beat up when I was super drunk, I can't remember any of it.. All I remember was a group of guys and I was talking to one and I am pretty sure we we getting along, guess not. During the fight I was hit and fell backwards and smashed the back of my skull on a curb, luckily I was okay but who knows what damage was done long term and I'll always worry about it. Anyway I lift now because of that, I don't want to be seen as an easy target but the sad fact is I cannot fight for my life.. The muscle is basically a bluff. I kind of do it for my fiancée too and to be healthier for the future.

what do you mean

It's a very bad idea to fap anytime really
Fapping makes you weak and retarded

I started to lift because I wanted to impress a certain girl. It soon became apparent that the girl in question was not worth impressing, but I still kept lifting after this realization.

Ippo tbqhwysenpai

It's very motivating

I liked boxing before watching Ippo but after I finished binge watching the first season I finally went and signed up. I will hopefully compete this spring/summer.
As for lifting I started because I was weak, scrawny and awkward and none of my friends believes me when I was drunk and said I would. I started without a proper routine or information, started taking it seriously and got on a good routine for strength and don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
I want to be strong desu

Well you have to do something when you decide to go sober :|

bonnaroo

depression

My brain. It kept telling me I looked a certain way (good) but I looked fat in pictures (because I was) so I had to do something so that the two matched. It's not like I wasn't self aware, I hated that I was a fatass but I also forgot most of the time because I didn't see myself next to others much because I didn't have friends. Luckily I fixed that too with time.

Hunter X Hunter is also great. If those tiny kids can endure then so can I. And if that brat Luffy can stick a knife in his eye then I can live through getting my skin cleaned.

I realized that I was a fucking idiot who wasn't taking advantage of the fact that his father was a body builder who multiple times tried to get me into lifting.

Fuck me was I stupid in high school.

28yo kissless, hugless virgin. I've been always the "charming" "funny" guy, no autismo at all (I can talk to girls and keep eye contact no problem) so I figured that my big belly and fatty face were the weights that have always been pulling me back.

Still kissless virgin, but no hugless anymore, and between the late numerous mires a few girls have patted me in the butt.

I think I still need to fix my teeth tho.

I remember always wanting to be like Baki Hanma from Grappler Baki back when I was a youngster. Realized I feel way happier and confident while lifting. Haven't looked back since

Sam made me realize I was a weak bitch and needed to do something about it

Specifically this video youtu.be/gdGczo9Kzqo

Zyzz inspired me to start lifting

I want to be the guy she sings about in her songs.

I needed to feel pain and improvement.

In HS I had the option between PE and weight lifting. PE is lame so I started lifting.

After HS I joined the Army and in my experience the stronger you are the easier being in the Army is.

Now I am getting back into because I'm fat and weak.

This. Keep at it user

> he didn't start lifting for Toshino Kyouko

But what does it mean ti be strong?

Same
Sam inspired me but i also had the delusion of attracting girls
I mean i guess i attract girls but im too autistic to do anything about it

Me, for being a kissless 28yo fatass virgin.

I figure that by being fit, I would finally have some self-confidence and would have the nerve to actually talk to women.

Also, I don't want to die early.

I lost weight and realized I still didn't look good when I hit my goal.

Back in middle school all my friends beat me in arm wrestling so i started lifting to beat them. In high school I started lifting for aesthetics.

cont. now my goals still haven't changed

Keep at it user

Dwayne Johnson in Faster,
Vin Diesel in Triple X, Knockaround Guys (his peak) and Riddick
Seann William Scott in American Pie and Welcome to The Jungle

All of my bestest friends are into powerlifting/olympic weightlifting/bodybuilding.

older brother, he started lifting at 12 and when he was 15 he had an incredibly good physique.

i'm now 18 and have been lifting for 4 years, if he never lifted i'd probably be 110 pounds playing call of duty religiously

I have a young looking face and little muscle on my body, thanks to a lazy childhood. Coupling these things together isn't good for a 21 year old guy. I just want to fill out, so I can be a comfortable size around guys my age. And I didn't want to just "get fatter" as a friend suggested, my young looking face is kind of worsened by my slight chubbyness (more skinny fat), so the goal is bulk to gain size, then cut to look more my age.

It's going good so far.

No, it increases test.

That is a factually incorrect meme.

wanted to get all the pussy, now I want to get all the mires from bros

It does not increase test to fap before a workout. That's a lie, and can be proven to be a lie with a google search. I remember there was a study done on some show on the discovery channel, where they took runners and asked them to masturbate/ejaculate before hitting the track. They found a drop in performance from ALL subjects involved, and they're times were on average 1.1 seconds slower

In college my roommate is an unstable autist who I worry has retard strength and may try to kill me at some point.
I've always been skinny fat and very weak so I lift so that I may have some kind of chance to overpower him.

I started to get dark spots on my neck, which is a sign of being pre-diabetic, t'is my mom genes but being 360lbs sure wasn't helping, completely lost my sweet tooth and after 14 months i'm at 258, want to get to at least 200 this year (6'1)

Damn, this is nice if true. You're gonna make it bro

>be fatfag
>get on meds for ADHD
>lose every ounce of fat but due to lazy ass pre medication life style have some serious t-rex mode going on

I started lifting to even it out and now things are going pretty great.

>be me
>be fat
>have hot gf (still dont know how or why)
>feel like shit making her go in public with fat slob of bf
>get Veeky Forums
>no longer have need for her
>grow distant
>she leaves me
>went from only having sex with her to having fucked 11 girls in the last year
it was all worth it

we'll make it, we'll all make it

summer 2016 anime season was dogshit and /a/ was slow, so I picked a random board to lurk and it was Veeky Forums

Holy shit are you me? Lazy childhood, didn't do shit now I'm in uni and I'm the only one showing id because I look about 13 and I'm getting fat, meanwhile everyone around me has abs and is looking their best (gay culture)

I need to improve before I turn into the fatties I despise

I hate fat people and hated being one. I know I have a lot of willpower so I focused it on diet and lifting. More motivated than ever this time around.

my obsession with /k/ eventually made me want to get stronger to reduce felt recoil so I can be a badass like youtube.com/watch?v=DvjTpNjyhBs

also realizing that the girl of my dreams was in love with me but I was too stupid to see it and now she's gone, so I lift in case I ever see her again

Source?

I'd been losing weight for a good while by the time this happened, eating better, doing yoga, and that sort. But I had a moment when I came back from a trip to Japan. After seeing how they eat, with much more reasonable portion sizes and whatnot, then waiting in the JFK airport and being reminded of the fucking immense portion sizes we have on incredibly unhealthy shit like soda, I just got a "Fuck this shit" moment and decided I had to step my game up. Can't just be losing weight. I've got to improve physically entirely.

>lifting for my roommate's shitty waifu

I was a fat dyel fuck who got tired of being sweaty all the time

and feeling weird and uncomfortable in clothes

and feeling ashamed of my hideous body

and feeling inadequate at any physical activity

I still have quite a ways to go, but I'm finally at a normal, healthy weight for the first time in my life, and have a fair amount of muscle.

No fear!

No pain!

Hugh Jackman on Men's Fitness magazine

suicidal depression kinda made me develop a reason to wake up every morning

I lifted in order to make my girlfriend of six years sexually attracted to me. Just as I started to make gainz I couldn't take her neglect and lack of affection. Constantly choosing her family over me even though she hates her family. I told her I couldn't handle her problems even though she literally has all the resources to solve them at her fingertips. She moved in with a guy she had been talking to on PSN 3 weeks later. She is living with him in Canada and does not want to come back. Despite a loving family, a warm home, and lots of money, she "has nothing here". Still chooses to mooch off her family's money even though they love her and want her back. That pain still motivates me to lift and become stronger.

JoJo and Kamen Rider inspired me to get Veeky Forums too.

I need to be strong to become an ally of justice.

I want my body to match my ego.

I started because someone told me that i could be a big guy if I lifted. I've never looked back

Same, I clearly remember thinking that I looked pretty good, despite weighing 250 pounds. Looking back at old pictures I cant believe how fucking fat I was.

made my day user

girl i lost my virginity to dropped me like a fly, we were best friends but at least it makes me workout a shit ton

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Nobody and nothing.
Some Chad I've recently become friends with is trying to get me to start lifting with him.
I keep declining because I have no motivation to fit it into my schedule and know I'm going to end up following him around like a lost dog at the gym because I have no idea what to do. I don't want him to have to hold someone's hand at the gym because they're helpless. Don't want to put either of us in that situation.

A mixture of being diagnosed with type2 diabetes and having a crush on a girl for the first time in my life (i'm 28) while being a disgusting fat fuck no normal woman could possibly find attractive.
I got my blood sugars down to normal levels, yay.

She of course rejected me even after I had lost massive amounts of weight and gotten pretty good muscle tone, probably more because of my boring autistic personality than anything else.
But at least now I do often get mires from random women I'm not interested in.

grandpa kill himself because of complications with type2 diabetes (he was apparently going to lose both legs)
dad, who also has type2, said would do the same if he ever got to that point
so I decided I'd be the one who would break the cycle

i like this user
i like this reasoning

refugees going to my country

trying to impress a girl back in middle school. no longer have any feelings for her and only see her very occasionally through friends, still lifting today though