This is 90% of the reason we all lift

>dad did sports all his life
>tops everyone in everything he gets his hand on
>his son (me) grows up to be a fucking skinny, college dropout loser that plays video games 15hrs a day, never had a girlfriend, rarely goes out, has no prospects or motivation
>a year and a half ago when i was 20 i decide to turn life around because some stuff happened
>start working
>pay for my college because i decide i want to finish it
>as i start college some fat guy in college talks me into lifting after 2 weeks of begging
>tell dad i'll start going to the gym
>he immediatelly cheers up
(he still goes to the gym at the age of 52 and benches 120kg for reps)
>gives me a workout plan
>tells me what to eat
>buys whey powder for me etc
>a month in i start seeing progress and i become addicted
>as a result of lifting i start feeling better about myself
>this causes a chain reaction
>confidence goes up
>become more talkative and assertive
>drop degenerate hobbies like video games
>doing well in college
>going out more
>in the meantime i fell in actual love with a girl for the first time in my life
>end up getting together with her
>happier i've ever been
>dad is proud of me
>when introuducing me to his friends or buisness partners he now proudly says "this is my son"

me and him never really had a good relationship since im introverted and dont share anything about my life with parents, and he's not the most sensitive person so we always had some superficial father son thing, but im glad that im not a complete disappointment to him because he is my role model as much i hate to admit it and as much as he pisses me off sometimes. My entire personality is exactly like his, got literally nothing from my moms side.

True because He is our Führer and father.

Say it with me:

SIEG !!

this hits close to home. I wish I was that far along, but I'm on the same path basically. how did you get a job?

I lift for Stalin

What about lifting in the hopes that you fail and the weight kills you on the way down?

very nice statistics

My dad was 5’10” and 125 pounds when he was my age, I’ve already won.

hiel

I never fucking see "Lifting for health".

I don't run, diet, or build certain muscle groups for any of that shit. I do it so I can be a healthy individual.

I lift because I like lifting and the time off from life I get in the gym, being able to set my worries and anxiety aside for an hour a day. It keeps me in check.

Aethetics and strength are just biproducts. I have no real reason to get fit.

this, I imagine trotzky to get that anger for the last reps

my dad is already proud of me
not im lifting to save fucking europe

youtube.com/watch?v=keycC13L0No
;_;

now*

>lose a fuck ton of weight recently.

>Dad says I'll make it.
>mfw

My dad is a faggot

autism

manwithforheadfurrows.png

you will be killed in an upcoming war faggot

Disgusting

Are you the product of gay sex then?

Nah I mean that I hate that guy

westerner cuck
kys

My father is a gains goblin though. He thinks having abs is unhealthy. He's not a memer and saying i should be fat though.

This is very similar to me. I remember thinking one day of how much of a loser that i am and my dad is getting older. It made me almost bawl that theres a chance ill still be a loser when he dies.

Im probably going to emd up the most successful of my brothers where im at now though if everything goes right with school.

Feels man

lol, all my dad cares about is money

>tfw dad never showed interest in me and didn't bother to develop a bond
>now that he's getting older he wants me to invest time and effort into developing a bond with him

> father provided for me for 18 years and i cant be assed to go get a burger with him once a week

>Dad is dying slowly of MS
>Go home
>He's zoned out in front of the TV
>Sees me and his eyes light up
>"Getting muscles, eh boy?" Poking my bicep smiling

I'll get more muscles, just you wait, Papa.

It's not really that. He never put any effort in his family and usually took his frustrations from work out on his family.

Is your dad Mark rippeltide

> ywn look at your son becoming a man
all the chicks I meet are more interested in being degenerate or stronk carrier women

Nah. I can sympathize with my father, but he's been a broken man for at least a decade. No controversial opinions, no interesting hobbies, just a dude that wakes up, plays Civ 5 all day every day, then falls asleep.

>decide to lose weight
>lose 27kg
>start going to the gym
>come back home one day after gym, dad is a little drunk cause my parents had guests over
>"I'm so proud of you, son"
>repeats that a couple of times throughout the coversation
>feelsgoodman

Still have 8-10 kg to lose.
We're all gonna make it brehs.

My dad is the secret reason I lift. I hated visiting him and him seeing my stomach was going to turn out like his. For everyone who asks though it's "to look better for my wife"

>lifting so your dad will be proud of you
this was a shockingly good effect of lifting and making gains. I was always a skinny kid (160lbs) and my dad is a big guy (6'4, 245lbs similar build to Stipe Miocic), he's in his 50s now and still looks like pic related and isn't even on TRT. Crazy genetics.
I'm 6'3 and have to eat like a machine to maintain 215lbs lean.

I lift so I don't end up like my dad.

Is he sorry, user? I bet he is. He probably has nothing now and realizes how much he fucked himself. Go to him and build the relationship that he couldn't.

Then you'll be the only one in the will.

>not lifting to impress your chad older brother who you don't really have a strong connection with cause you just haven't been a particularly social person but he was the one who got you into fitness so your fitness is one of the few things you have in common and thus reflects how much you care about your relationship to some extent

>He thinks having abs is unhealthy.
men should have flat stomachs, don't go below 12% bf

>daddy die from meme overdose
>go homo
>he's on Zone-hentai infront of the laptop
>Sees me and cums in his eyes
>"UUUU BIG BOY!?" Poking my asshole smiling

I'll get a qt trap waifu, jsut you wait, Papi :)

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Wholesome post

>Is he sorry, user? I bet he is. He probably has nothing now and realizes how much he fucked himself. Go to him and build the relationship that he couldn't.
I'm sure he regrets it, but i don't know whether he's sorry. But even then, i just feel nothing for him. I've tried to feel something, but there just isn't anything there. It's like we've been strangers for more than 20 years.
You know there's a critical window in time in an animal's development where they learn who's their parent and who isn't? It feels like that. It feels like that window is closed now, and it's too late for him.

autism

Since I stopped being a twig and started getting interested in fitness and sports my relationship with my dad improved a lot, feels good man.

This

:(

>parents divorced when I was 4
>mom remarried when I was 7
>was a crazy religious guy
>only had my uncles, grandpa, and Goku to look to for the kind of man I should be
>moved out of state at 9
>made some life-long bros
>we basically raised each other

Gonna be 24 in a few months and I think I turned out OK. I don't consider myself a "manly man", but definitely a good man. Mine would probably be dad -> girls - > strength -> aesthetics

I wanna look as good as I feel.

>praises Hitler
>88
That's the reich magic!
HAIL!

>hiel

DELET

HEIL!

Am I your dad?

why the fuck would picking up pieces of metal make your dad proud of you? Are you from some hickville in the South? If you want to make your dad proud of you do more than what he did while staying humble

My father Is beta. I had to learn everything by my self. I don't care what he thinks

hiel

my dad thinks I'm too addicted and I'm wasting all my money on sups

My dad's a cunt, I could care less what he thinks.

No

breh... :(

HEIL

>not lifting for Hitler and the glory of the Reich

Never going to make it

>Be me
>9 years old
>"Dad, I don't want to go swimming"
*Dad turns around*
>"I never wanted to be born son"
Epic, Veeky Forums is my strongest father figure.

Good god help me Veeky Forums
>be me
>be one of 11 other siblings
>all but two of them have different moms/dads
>am the youngest was born from two recovering drug addicts
>move with mom to next state over when I was 14
>be me 19
>they want me to travel over there for a family photo before dad gets too old
>Im broke as fuck and dont really like to travel.

Am I being a faggot by not going? its 8 hours round trip and they want me there for two days, but I don't want to see all these randos that I barely know, the only ones that I am close with is two sisters on my moms side and partially one on my fathers side. Also the cost of travel would be a bitch for me to cover for me right now.

My father has never been a social person and neither am I, so we are not really close, we barely talk except for "useful" stuff like work. But he did prioritize working his ass off all his life for his family and I want to honor that and have a good, meaningful relationship. Any tips, someone? How to start from scratch?

a boy cant become a man without the (metaphorical) death of his farther so that he can replace his farther and become his own farther figure

if youre still trying to make your dad proud youre still a boy and ironically unable to ever actually make him proud

HEIL

>drop degenerate hobbies like video games

I just can't quit them. When my PC randomly breaks I become the most productive person ever. House is clean, yard is nice, get to all the repairs I've been putting off, wash my car, work on random shit that wife has been pestering me about.

Week later fix PC, back to sitting in my den 6 hours a day fucking off on the computer.

wrong, i lift to rip off my own head

i lift to make fun of retards who dont have the discipline to eat right and lift weights 6x a week LOOOL

>tfw at my age my dad had a literal GOAT body
>tfw I’m skinny fat

I used to enjoy seeing my dad proud of me when I got in better shape, but I haven't thought about that much since he took off a few years ago

How much must I OHP to archieve this mode?

>when introuducing me to his friends or buisness partners he now proudly says "this is my son"
>tfw never happened to me

>Dad pulled me aside the other day to tell me he’s concerned that I’m lifting heavy and need to be more careful

Brb kms

Wholesome as fuck lad

>Tfw dad passed when I was 12.

I lift partly so I can become the man my dad would have wanted me to become and so he can watch me make gains from above

I hate you normie scum, replace that last one with "lifting so your dad can never abuse you if you ever see him again" and you've got it right.

Go check out the video about Terry Crews talking about his dad and you get the idea.

Monkey

Good for you op im genuinely happy after reading that

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You're a faggot

I lift so I can kill commies

Go. You can always make that money back, but you may never be able to have this memory again.

...

fpbp

>tfw dad doesnt love me

Same for me. Working hard so I can one day look up the sky and ask: Are you proud of me dad?

My dad is dead but I lift to honor his spirit

Are you a helicopter?