What's the single event/thing that made you start working out?

Spending like 3 years straight drinking heavily all weekend and eating like shit during the week doing no activity after work, before I knew what was going on I was out of shape and felt shit about myself as I was always pretty fit as a teenager.
Bought shitty weights at first then slowly upgraded, researched as much as I could and got back to feeling better about myself.

I couldn't go without alcohol. Had way too many fun times with friends, equal amount of shitty times but take the good with the bad.

>was 16
>helping parents bring in groceries
>realized I could only do two bags at a time
>get gallon of milk from floor, struggle and had to use two hands and squat down to get it to put it on the counter
>step on scale next day
>68lbs
>68lbs at 5'6"

Made sure I never got like that again.

Girl I used to have a massive crush on told me I put in weight. It devastated me and I started hitting the gym again within a month. Now 4 years later I'm over her, she's married and my lifts are great. Still have a hard time not eating everything, although I've managed to cut out soda and candy.

I'm still a khv @ 26 years old though so meh.

>get high
>go over to friends dorm
>friends girlfriend is always really nice to me
>says I look like the corpse bride guy
>fucking hungry skeleton
>sit in bed the next morning
>think about working out
>only have 1 month until trump gets elected
>have to get fit for potential failure and race war
>maybe later
>think about last night
>start dropping and doing pushups
>add in other bodyweight stuff
>eventually go to the gym with a friend of a friend
>he bails
>have to go on my own
>scared
>start going and doing his routine
>eventually find Veeky Forums
>Autistically learn how to workout
>look like a dyel and a fool
>slowly get bigger
>get protein powder
>learn more stuff
>dress better
>more girls mire
>dedicate my life to fitness
>year later
>better physique than most guys in the gym now
>realize they were never that big
>I have so much more potential
>I will ascend
>girls dont even think they have a chance with me most of the time
>still not big enough finally going to do a big bulk and make Veeky Forums proud

I love you guys

Got cheated on for the second time in life

Pretty much this

Better physique than most in your gym, after less than a year?
Must be a bunch of dyels.

>50 hot points
why are you both so retarded

Go fuck a girl any way you can that's not forced, I was getting worried and desperate at 17 when I fucked a girl fit the first time and I was fairly autistic.

>when I fucked a girl fit the first time and I was fairly autistic.
care to elaborate?

Should be when I fucked a girl for the first time.
I was stressing I was going to be an 18 year old virgin so being in your 20s you'd have to get serious I'd imagine.

17 is meh. How did you not lose it before 17? I was a 15 year old addicted to shitposting on /b/ and still managed to fuck a girl back then.

was with current gf almost a year and sex got to be routine, like it was fine but nothing special or exciting, just a thing we'd do now and then. out of nowhere one day I just get an urge to be really aggressive/dominant, and she was incredibly into it. since then our relationship dynamic changed hard from the normal coequal androgynous urbanites sort of thing to extremely dichotomous where I am The Man and she is The Woman with all that entails, and we've both never been happier

so as part of that I decided part of filling that role meant I needed to get strong, so I started lifting

My pants no longer fit and accually had buttons pop out

>What's the single event/thing that made you start working out?
When I was over 300 pounds, unemployed for more than a year, and depressed to the point of playing a 'game' with myself to see how fat I could get before it killed me, I came to a crossroads one morning (morning? LOL, it was like 2 oclock in the afternoon at least!) when I tried to roll my fat ass out of bed, noting my knees were a little sore -- and they collapsed under me. Torn cartilege. Decided enough was enough, if I wasn't going to die quick of a heart attack or something, only go slowly and painfully, I may as well fucking live.

>looked in the mirror
>"Look at you, you fat fuck"
>"All your life you've been a lazy little shit"
>"You give up so quick"
>"You lack motivation"
>"You're depressed"
>"You look like shit, smell like shit, and eat nothing but shit"
>"You expect people to take you seriously?"
>"You desire things that are beyond you? Way out of your league?"
>"You think you're the strongest there is without doing jackshit?"
>"You're nothing"

I'm not saying it's anything amazing, in fact I'm saying I was worried I was getting too old.

A friend of mine got kidney stones on February which made me quit soda. A month after I quit soda I started c25k and lifting to build up confidence and look better.

Christopher Cantwell said to hit the gym. Best decision of my life.

My father was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer earlier this year. Seeing him waste away during the following months ripped my soul from me. Rest in Peace pops

I spent every day seething with rage at how pathetic the average western male was and realized i was part of the problem sitting on my ass playing video games and jacking off to anime girls was just as pathetic regardless of my political views and showed that i was weak as a person. Relentless self hate and acknowledgement of this still didn't satiate my brains idea of "the objectively right mindset" so i decided i had to actually do something about it

Getting dumped by a 9.5/10. I knew I was a solid 7 maybe an 8 if I was in perfect shape and I wanted to keep banging 9s. It kinda worked, I get 8.5s sometimes

> this bullshit

Oh god, never gonna make it

Sure. Also I know how to train for hypertrophy efficiently unlike most retards that post here

This sort of thing was big for me too. I have relatives who would get angry for the same reason but they would simultaneously say I was too big and should lose weight.

To slim down? Being free from home
To get big? [spoiler]JJBA parts 1 and 2[/spoiler]

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

lbs at 5'6"
what the actual fuck, is that possible?
you meant kg, right?

Depression. Found purpose. Still dyel but feels good

I look to the future not the past

>bad breakup
>needed an outlet
>gym became outlet
And I have an addictive personality so I just never stopped and eventually I started really getting interested in how to lift instead of just pushing weight around for an hour a day

I was at a concert with a girl. She got behind me and put her hands on my shoulders, then stopped and came back in front of me.
Later she said she wanted to get on my shoulders but didn't want to hurt me.
>mfw I still got hurt

>my oneitis ghosted me when I started college
>fat
>met a new girl I was really into
>overheard her talking to her friend saying she loves it when guys have six packs
>she ghosts me eventually as well
>start going to gym and eating chicken & veggies

happiest i've ever been. love seeing myself in the mirror. 1.5 years in.

One of my professors had "Exercise can cure mild to moderate depression" in one of his powerpoint slides, and it was like a lightbulb turned on. I went to the gym immediately after that. It was a good start, but my dumbass idiot self then decided to eat more garbage because "I deserve it! I worked hard today." I got my shit together after taking an extended break from college and dropped 35 lbs. I still think about all the money I could have saved by cooking healthy meals at home instead of inhaling chips and salsa from the local Tex-Mex place every day...

did you get a 6 pack yet?

No I did not mean kg. Not eating right really fucked me up puberty wise, it just didn't really happen for me until about 2 years later from lifting and eating. Plus a lot of physical movements were hard for me to learn since I was basically a skeleton. I had to hide in my room at night doing pushups on my knees and found some 5lb dumbbells from goodwill and doing curls and other things until I could do a full pushup.

>i'm on a b-bulk

The biggest reason was probably health anxiety related panic attacks. Being terrified for my health gave me panic attacks, exercise staves them off. I got lazy once for a week or so and they came back so I'm gonna exercise for life now.

Health anxiety is a fucking brilliant, horrific motivator.

...

You did not weigh 30kg retard

>at first i was scared to because of the gross hypermasculine gym culture in my awful trump state.

Suuuure, it wasn't because of your own bullshit insecurities, right? It was Trump that kept you fat.

I just felt like doing some exercises. Putting on some muscle and getting stronger was a nice side effect.

It was 10 years ago, i mostly keep doing this nowadays because its became part of everyday routine and i want my kids to have a healthy, phyiscally active father.

>I was taking my dog for a walk up a small mountain everyday
>thought i could do it quicker
>started running up it
>small bursts at first, then eventually all the way
>decided to do IF
>lost 20% body weight in 4 months

I'm plateauing right now which is a bitch, but it's the 3rd plateau, and I know how to break them.

user have i heard your story somewhere before? It sounds familiar and desu was nice actually

Yeah, I posted it here a month or two back in a thread about the same matter. Feels good to be remembered desu

Ate lasagna for dinner and felt heartburn the entire meal. Thought to myself "it shouldn't hurt to eat". Lay in bed unmoving for 2 days with the only thought in my head being "it shouldn't hurt to eat" on repeat a dozen times a minute. Get up to shit, weigh myself. 380lbs. Look my weight up on youtube, it's nothing but obese people weight loss journey and shredded guys attempting lifts. I said "if I eat like I did last week, I'll never get better, I'll eat myself into a grave" and just walked a mile. 150 lbs later and I'm pretty proud of myself, even if I still have a ways to go.

Well I grew up around polite people and 'body positivity' bullshit (which really just teaches people that they have no bodily autonomy, and instead of making me feel good about my body it just left me with the same dissatisfaction as always but then compounded it with shame for feeling that way in the first place and embarrassment for being deluded enough to desire changing it).
Then in uni I was hanging out with some catty manorexic faggots, the kind of people I never would have encountered before, and they spent a lot of time quietly mocking people for being even slightly chubby. First time I'd ever heard people say such things about others and it was pretty shocking to me. But I respected them and wondered what they might have been saying about me when I'm not around, and realised that the thought hurt because I was fatter than I wanted to be.

It's funny because the fags' attitudes is the exact kind of thing that my high school was terrified would make everyone anorexic, but literally the first time I heard them insult someone who was thinner than me, it was like the self-esteem problems that had bugged me since I ballooned up as a teenager were instantly... I dunno, disinfected? Like it stung, but in a good way.
But hilariously, the only methods I actually knew at that point for losing weight were the fucking anorexic ones, because school went into such detail on what not to do that it was all I had. I didn't do anything dangerous though, just restricted calories and did cardio until I became a limp noodle.

Throughout all of this, I was coming to Veeky Forums for advice, and generally just being berated by you cunts because my brains were still scrambled from fat logic and mom science. But you eventually got through to me and I started lifting. Never fucking looked back, never felt better.

Unironically the manga image that reads "people who want to be liked but dont put any effort into it are Just selfish"

>Tfw no turbo-chad Friends to show me the ropes of clubbin and decent clothing

>2012
>just played 6 hours world of warcraft.
>randomly found A video of pic related fucking around on youtube.
>changed my life

...

anyone else just wanted to get laid?

My big brother got really fucking mad one day at my old fat-me which was spending his days in his room playing vidya.
Don't know what happened,one day he burst into my room telling me to get the fuck up and that we were going walking.
It was close to 100°F that day and while lecturing me on how i was hurting myself physically,academically and socially by being fat and lazy ( i did have a few friends but overall not that much ) we just kept walking for hours.I was out of breath after 10mn of fucking walking,sweaty as a mofo and on the verge of dying.

Made me realize how out of shape i was.It just clicked in my head.I then started dieting,bought a barbell and some weights from Amazon,started from there.Moved on quickly to a gym and there you have it.

I posted my face on int. got called ugly and that sent me into a spiral of depression and i just said fuck it and started lifting so i can have some identity. This path of life is way more interesting than before that event.

when i realised i was turned out by cuckolding and wanted to be the 'bull'

>tfw ive camed inside countless milfs
>get paid for it

win win in my books

kek

A good friend of mine started working out and got pretty buff. Girls started to get interested in him. Decided I wanted some of that and got fit. Now I've got a qt3.14 blonde, blue eyed, conservative gf who wants me to workout less, because she doesn't like big muscles. But fuck that, we 'bout to get swole as fuck.

literally all it took for me to get my skinny ass off the couch. been lifting for 6 months, slow progress but I ain't giving up, wish I found zyzz sooner

>youre a bit chubby but cute nontheless
Heard this at least 4 times before trying to change.

>What's the single event/thing that made you start working out?
i was overweight/obese for the most part of my life, never even held hands with a girl not to mention other things, never had any real friends, never been to a party, never went out of the house

as of today im big by normie standards, not big enough by my own perspective, not coming off of gear just blasting and cruising. Now im 28 years old and literally nothing has changed since then besides my body

>Taeko Ohnuki

one of my collegue got a cardiac arrest because hes a fat fuck . I was a fat fuck as well and didn't want that to happen to me, started lifting and never looked back since

this bait is so advanced that it gave me cancer despite knowing it's bait.

one of my irl friends got into it. after a while it made me realize how fat and out of shape I had gotten when compared to him.

Top bait

Noticing I had gotten a bit of a belly at 28 after being a lifelong slimjim.

I got rejected by the literal girl of my dreams and my confidence was at an all time low, and I was a gross fat slob who was jerking off to cuck porn unironically and getting drunk every night.

Im still tfw no gf but at least I don't find any interest in cuckoldry anymore.

>one night i started talking about nutrition and shit with a gymbro friend
>get interested about nutrition and supplementation
>gymbro told me to come and join him at the gym sometime
>i actually liked it

in middle school i got picked on for my race. also jumped a few times at recess. i always struck back the next time then ran.

being the youngest i got bullied by my older siblings and my dad for one reason or another all my years. i tried killing myself with a knife when i was 10.

in my teens my sister would bring over guy friends and her and them would try to pick fights in our own house when no one was around. ignoring them or walking away would trigger them to fuck with me more. it got to the point i'd have to either leave the house or put a chair in front of my doorknob and stand there with a knife. my parents didn't believe anything happened when i told them general details.

my sister would often times yell so close in my ear so loud my vision would shake. one day she kept telling me to hit her and i cocked my fist back- but put my hands up and walked away.

my older brother was cool when i became a teen though. i am very thankful for that. he's also a mini-hulk and a pt.

my dad was emotionally abusive up until i moved out at 18. at one point in my teens he hit me for no reason and i was too scared to react cause he was 2.5x bigger than me. plus it was outside and his neighbor buddy who was an asshole to me was watching us.

when i was 16 i wanted to kill myself again. so i took an 8th of shrooms and i reflected upon things. my depression lessened significantly. i got my mind and my life back on track on my own.
>and so i also started to workout and train.

in hs i got jumped by a few guys. i struck back with a crew and weapons. i almost signed up for the army for the combat but for political reasons did not.

decade later. two days ago a bigger older guy picked a fight with me in the street and i decided not to walk away this time. i side kicked him in the ear, front kicked him, then threw 4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3 and forced him to apologize. i saw his ear canal bleeding while he was on the ground which implies bleeding around the brain. i feel nothing.

Used to be kind chubby throughout high school. My senior year I lost a lot of weight and started to notice that I'm naturally above average in looks. I just sort of realized that going to the gym was the next logical step

>lost a ton of weight using simple calorie counting
>girl i had a huge crush on in hs who went to my college sees me
>"oh wow user! you look so good!"
>"w-what?"
>"have you been exercising a lot? you've changed so much!"
it had only been a couple months since we had last seen each other, it was freaky. anyway, that very day I decided to check out the uni gym, and every since then I've been hooked.

actually not bait. i'm trans and the gym is a fucking horrible place to be. gym bullies are real, and they're huge white guys in groups :(

got called fatty

he needs to work on his neck

I was depressed and inside a room for 5 years

Not eating right during puberty is so fucking true my man. I was like 5'10 when I graduated high school at 130 lbs. Started lifting and eating a ton more, and within in the next year I grew about 3 inches after not having grown for a year before lifting.

Had an anxiety attack because I thought I was had some sort of cardiac disease. Was having difficulty breathing, chest pain, increased heart rate. Turned out it was a combination of stress and allergies (difficulty breathing was allergies, everything else was stress). I've always been something of a hypochondriac and I've been able to suppress it since then but it got the best of me one day.
Decided the next week to start working out. There's a long history of heart disease in my family and it'll probably kill me eventually, but I'm gonna try to put it off as long as possible.

My gf was assaulted and I was too much of a weak pussy to do anything about it.
It was a long time ago, but I will never forget why I train.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>muh big ebil white man

Even though this is bait I always found this hilarious. Most non-white places just stone trannies to death. If one of you trans fags went into a gym in a black town you'd either get raped or the shit kicked out of you. At best they'd tell you to get the fuck out and never show your fag face there again.

good for you bro

What a bunch of beta faggots.
>t. Chad T. Thundercock

Kys u mentally ill faggot

I was infected with right wing political ideology that has encouraged me to build my body up instead of accepting being weak and diluting it with shit food and drugs. That and years of insecurity about my body finally reaching the boiling point to make me do something about it.

I only wish I had started sooner.

maybe. there is a reason that trans women of color are murdered so often :(

but just because it would be worse somewhere else does not excuse these people being dicks to me at the gym. i don't even try to talk to anyone, just want to do my workout and gtfo.

fuck off

I feel alcohol wouldnt fuck you uo as much as people think. It will if you let it, ie, hungover and lose motivation to go to the gym.
But from a health standpoint as long as it isnt every weekend it shouldnt hurt much at all.

An ultra-chad from work who I got along with (despite me being an autist, he found it amusing though) took me along with him to the gym one day and showed me the ropes, even gave me some fashion and women advice as well. I owe him, and on the day that he calls for or needs my help, I will be there.

are you the kid who drew this gay ass purple sonic?

Realized i was going no where in life despite having an amazing girlfriend who was studying to be a doctor. Didnt want to end up like her cunt of a father.
Had a fuckload of friends, but all.I did was play vidya (still do in downtime).
Weighed myself and sat at 59KGs and 6ft. Hated it.
Started eating better, gymed at home until I got big enough to go to an actual gym. That was 4 years ago.
Had a huge week in another country with friends, lost motivation, developed a small drug issue that I am still working towards getting out of. Fell into depression and cheated on my girlfriend in another state.
Felt like I should just kill myself.
Cried every night for a month.
Still thinking I would never make anything of myself as an individual.
Really started connecting with watching UFC, despite dabbling in watching it for a few years.
Something clicked in my brain.
Joined brazillian jujitsu, mauy thai and k1 kickboxing. Started back at the gym.
Its only been 2 weeks since i had that epiphany. But I am the happiest I have been in near 5 years.
I am motivated again.