What got you into lifting?

Years of failure, rejection, and self loathing. realizing the only way forward is forward.

Selfdisgust mixed with curiosity of all the potential I wasted.

Realizing I was turning into a pathetic man child. I realized I was 23 yo and was terrified of pretty women. I had to improve myself if I wanted to be happy in my life and getting fit is part of that improvement. I also have to get my career in order and sort out my social issues. My home life growing up was super fucked up but I can't keep letting the past keep me down.

Couldn't have sex because body dysmorphia
>two months lifting
>hate myself even more every day
>not because body dysmorphia
>because i didn't start lifting five or ten years ago
>wasted youth
God how stupid I was

Military (Air Force)

My shop goes to the gym together every day as part of the work day. You can choose not to go but you have to stay in the office and do paperwork. They introduced me to lifting and I found Veeky Forums once I started wanting to learn more. Rest is history.

MOSSACK! DISHA, DISHA.

bullying

then i got addicted to lifting and literally left human contact behind

nobody can even hurt me physically anymore so i get left alone

Did you succeed?

depression, anxiety, lack of confidence, body issues, girls not attracted to me and I ruined everything with the ones that were because of the lack of confidence

Same here m8 was disgusted when I could touch my fingers together as an ok sign around my skinny forearm a few years back

I grew up watching movies with Arnold, Stallone, Van Damme, etc; so when i started to get older i wanted to look like heroes of my childhood, so i started lifting.

>wanted to try it cause its pretty hype in my country at youth atm
>enjoyed
>worked out for a year
>stopped for a year

what got you into lifting:
>after 1 year pause
>one punch man

im not kidding you. episode 4 or whatever.
They are in the house of evolution and saitama shares his training plan and how he became that strong.

I knew about fitness so i knew that it was obviously a joke but the message behind it is what made me work out again.

they basically explained calories in/out and the motivation + the amazing feelings you have afterwards in that one scene.
Now i ain't no weeb but that show caught me good.
started doing saitamas workout routine just for fun for like 1 week.
Afterwards i started lifting again and im holding on to it.

cause i didn't wanna be a skelly anymore

t. still a skelly

I had this oneitis three years ago. So I started lifting. She's still my oneitis. I'm still lifting. I never did anything, I was always and still am that fat loser kid inside, mires and all.

So I'll still never have her. She's leaving in a few weeks. But I'll still always be lifting.

Nothing changes breh. Autists will stay autists, robots will stay robots.
>that eternal and irrevocable feel when no gf

I slipped a disc so I found Veeky Forums, stayed for the milk and the memes even though I havent been into a gym for a year now

Recovering skelly here.

Basically i felt disgusted when i looked in the mirror. I'm doing very well right now. already gained 10 kilos in 2 months. Going to go to a dietitian this friday.

tl:dr I had self esteem issues.

I didnt want to be weak anymore.

>tfw no gf
>"Haha, just be confident bro"
>www.howtobeconfident.com
>"Start working out"
>started working out

I think I am pretty confident right now but since I started lifting I just want become stronger and after I hit 70kg Press and 117.5 kg Front Squat I wanna get into Oly Lifting.

>tfw still tfw no gf

there was this super hot girl in my class subgroup. she was playful with me because i was naive at the time and nice to everyone. it started with things like helping her study for presentations, helping her carry stuff or whiteknighting her or her friends when they make a teehee dumb statement. she would chat with me at night about trivial things which gave me the impression of romantic attraction, and it made me really happy because I'm literally 6/10 face wise. she even said things with sexual innuendo, one of which i still can't forget; she made me promise to take her out when we graduate(4 years coming) and then do something special together. i held on to the promise like a moron of course. after a while, the other members of the group which was 11/13 female, noticed us being chatty with each other and started teasing us, eventually gossip arose and the entire class was talking. i was invested in the idea that she fancied me so i didnt mind and was happily embarrassed, but she was so bothered by it she eventually stopped chatting with me unless someone else was there. but what hurt me the most was that she got out of her way to try and match me with one of her uggo friends to make the gossip stop. i tried to salvage it by celebrating her birthday, suggesting group activities so we can spend time more, etc. in the end she decides to date a senior (8/10) to make the gossip stop and eventually i accepted the reality that i was a pathetic beta orbiter. it made me mad but I cant blame anyone but myself because i was a sedentary skinnyfat who doesn't look good, and couldn't smooth talk well enough into her bed. after a week of weeping i finally got the courage to ask my friend to teach me tennis. never got good at it but i did found out perhaps too late that exercising is fun. I'm still not over the frustration but at least i no longer actively try to find out what she's doing, stalking her on social media etc. the gym is a great distraction and I don't regret it

do nofap, increase your test with lifestyle/food and in the winter, for gods sake, take vitamine d and consume some fruits, it helps so much with depressions.

you gonna make it brah, just a matter of time

Joined because new friends I'd just made at uni were going and bonding there and I wanted to bond with them.

Got into it seriously cause I liked filling out my t-shirts and being able to buy really basic clothing and look OK in it, and be the strongest guy in most standard rooms/offices.

Started lifting to impress a girl I fell in love with but it ended up with me just being led on. Ended up using the heartache to push me to go harder in the gym. I think I'm over her.

Same

I'm in the best shape of my life tho it's thoroughly unimpressive by Veeky Forums standards. My financial situation is poor but I'm in a lot less debt. I still have approach anxiety with women but at least I can speak to them now where as before my throat would literally swell up until I was nearly passing out from being unable to breathe. Still don't have friends but outside of college making friends seems nearly impossible. I'm not where I want to be yet but I'm definitely making progress.

Competitive drive between friends. Most of my friends are getting Veeky Forums, and since I moved away I want to go into cocoon mode and come back in a couple months jacked.

Only thing I'm good at

>was obese and wanted gf
>now more fit and got body dysmorphia instead since 5'4

I used to get bullied

Unironically my autistic obsession with zyzz 3 years ago.

Dad got me into it to move me up 2 years early for varsity, stayed because I wanted to look better, be stronger and because it became a daily routine for 5 years of school so it was as natural as practice or study hall to me

>anorexic going into Senior year of HS (5'9 @ 112lbs)
>get put into weights class bc art class was full
>Lift with my best friend for 7 months until am tired of being skelly
>Discover Veeky Forums, Join gym, & Gain 35 pounds
If I hadn't been put into that class I would probably still be an anorexic cardio fag wasting away.

I used to hate my body.

Not sure if I still hate it now but I feel I'll never be satisfied.

that's not even you, bro.

After fapping so many times to hot guys in porn i eventually wanted to look like them.
Also, wanted to get some benefits from halo effect due to looking good.

Perpetual regurgitation and pop-cluiture monopolization by putting my brand on everything from A-Z and collecting shekels from the brainless masses.

That's not a /cbt/.

>be me in high school
>ask crush out on a date
>"with you? haha user lets just keep being friends"
>do squats fuelled by repressed anger for next 4 years

Friends, but they have abandoned my gym so I now go there alone

I wanted to look good with my shirt off for once.

how are squats going to help the situation at all...?

Gif related
Title related

i dont have anything better to do

Being a fat disgusting ugly middle schooler, was fit in elementary school and loved swimming, got moody in middle school was 6'2" 250lb with virtually no muscle by the end of 8th grade, hated the way I felt and looked, took up football, did well as strong tackle but had to start lifting, when I was a freshman one of the juniors saw potential in me and helped guide me in lifting, told me to treat it like a video game with increasing stats and "leveling up" aka getting a new 1RM and got instantly hooked grew to 6'5" and 270lb at ~15% BF played football my first year in college but quit after wards when I noticed it took up too much time and that I loved lifting way more than playing football, decided to cut down to 245 and never felt better, in pretty sure if I was never a fat middle school kid addicted to WoW I would have never made it any where in lifting and continue to lift to lift the feels away and to make sure I never become what I used to be, I've seen how bad I can get and never want to be close to that ever again

One morning I woke up from someone talking to me, in my room:
"Psst! Are you awake yet?"
Startled, I opened my eyes and looked down.
"Hey, I've been thinking: You should start lifting."
It was my penis, talking to me. This had to have been a dream.
"Now, I know what you might be thinking: 'Why would I do something so effort consuming?' ...but hear me out, okay?"
I threw my pillow at it, but my pillow dodged it.
"Hey! Cut that out - I'm being serious here! Listen, I think I'm on to something here. What's the one thing that chicks want?", it asked.
"I dunno. Sleep?"
"Are you trying to be funny? Look, I'll tell you: Chicks want muscle. I've seen all the commercials."
"What commercials? I don't even own a TV anymore, and I have adblock installed."
"You'd be surprised how much I get around when you aren't around."
"You're not making any sense. I'm going back to sleep now."
"No-no-no-no-wait! Look, give me a second..."
There's some movement down there. I look and see my penis bringing up a small presentation board.
"What? Where did you even GET that?"
"It doesn't matter, look, see this graph? This, is the chance to get laid, relative to how fit you are. Do you see, huh? There's a corralization here, clear as day."
"You mean 'correlation'."
"Yeah-yeah, 'correlation', whatever, are you even listening here?"
"Yeah, well, what if I don't want chicks?"
"Wha', you don't want chicks? What, are you gay or something?"
My penis throws my pillow back at my head out of spite.
"No, I mean what if I don't want to put in the effort? That graph thingie there obviously hasn't taken that into account."
"Look, I'm a dick, alright? I need pussy. Maybe YOU don't want pussy, but I do. I've got needs, son. Do you know how lonely it gets down here?"
"Fine, I'll think about it. Now will you let me sleep?"
"Fine. We'll talk more about this in the morning."
"G'night."
"Goodnight."

...and that's how I got into lifting.

literally me

Getting bullied all the time

It's funny, this guy is ugly but his hair + style really halo him. I didn't even watch the movie but I think he looks pretty badass.

why don't you suck his dick then you faggot

>One morning I woke up from someone talking to me, in my room:

>"Fine, I'll think about it. Now will you let me sleep?"
>"Fine. We'll talk more about this in the morning."
>"G'night."
>"Goodnight."

Get your timeline straight jeez.

Yeah, I saw that after I posted it. There's also a pillow being thrown at a pillow. I clearly don't remember all the details, since it happened so long ago. Instead of my penis, it might have been my mom.

Looking at myself in the mirror and feeling disgusted.

I wanted to be an army Ranger, and to have an excuse to get away from fugged up home life. I got cucked out of the military because of my allergies, but I'm no longer skinny and look like I lift.

something about male body shaming really triggers me. especially since the majority of men are dyel or fat as fuck pieces of shit physically

Holy shit bro, my respect to you.
I'm a military enthusiast fag and a fan of American armed forces (I'm not american). I just wish I had the balls to enroll into the SEALS or the Rangers.

this

>270
>15% body fat
We'll be the judge of that user.

Keep at it bro.

You will make it.

I already have this
We are getting married next year and she is absolutely crazy about me

What the fuck are you allergic to? I have bad allergies and I ship out Feb 17th 11X Option 40. You fucked up at meps, I just told the lady I can take some claritin and they don't bother me.

Don't bro, I never even got past the Medical board, they had my medical records and it was never gonna happen. I have done nothing to earn anyones respect.

Bad dairy allergies, and that shit was all over my medical records as I had a lot of reactions. Army had me take an allergy test but I completely failed.

Why did you show them your medical records? ...
Join the French Foreign Legion.

I got a job as a lifeguard and wanted to look cool in the sleeveless lifeguard shirt

Recruiter said they were required, and yeah I told them about my allergies because my parents were there and would have instantly corrected me. Even if I was able to lie can't you get in serious legal trouble for lying to recruiters/MEPS?

The mirror

Anyone else notice Kylo's recessed mandible? Seems they placed him as the villain because it creates the opposite of the halo effect.

>my parents were there
>Even if I was able to lie can't you get in serious legal trouble for lying to recruiters/MEPS
Sorry, you aren't who the army is looking for. Literally everyone lies to the recruiter and everyone in the army knows and doesn't care. They even joke about it in reception and basic.

Combat arms is the biggest gains goblin of them all, trust me.

Still love it tho, idk why.

Yeah, great, go and be a liability in another country. Good advice.

Cunt gets posted to 13DBLE etc. Out on training ex or patrols, has reaction from food out of rations, needs casevac almost every time he's out field. Yeah, nah they won't get sick of that at all...

yup, same

He said he's allergic to dairy. He can avoid all that by simply.... not eating dairy.

Are you retarded?

I realized my face wasn't enough to get girls to fuck me, so I have to make up for it with a nice body

Yeah, i've been around long enough to hear the horror stories of gains-stealing cardio and low calorie intake. Still wish I could have done it, but i'm slowly learning to move on.

A feeling of fear and weakness from years of bullying. Funny thing is I got my mentality in order before getting fit (hell I'm hardly fit even now) and managed to stop that shit with attitude alone. Then I got my ass kicked twice and learned that if I want to be a real Chad I need to jack up and put some bite behind my bark.
Currently 24 and I've been on and off lifting for a while now, but this is the year I get my shit together. No more excuses.

>No more excuses
Thats the attitude breh, heres to gains and a great 2018.

i was 13 and team sport pissed me off so i my solo journey at the gym

Same. Now I'm just angry most of the time and if I stop going to the gym I get the urge to fight randoms in public. Honestly I'd say it's an improvement

No gf+Self disgust+ it really feels amazing to be strong.

To touch on the last point, it really does feel amazing. You get girls and guys asking you to help lift heavy shit all the time. Not to mention the looks from normies and the confidence that comes with knowing you can do pretty much anything better than 90+% of the population when it comes to physical performance.

I can’t tell you how Nice it felt to realize that the only people stronger than me in my local gym are roiders, ex high school football players/lifters, and people who’ve been lifting for multiple years.

My nibba

Wait till you have future girlfriends knowing that they do not give you as good a feeling as that girl does and it fucks your relationships up.

Cause that's where I'm at, 4 years after messing things up with mines

LOLLL

His chin is weak as fuck.

An inability to run well. Eventually started lifting but now I stopped so I do not excessively stress my wrists for piano.

Pure self-hatred