Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Corinthians 6:19-20
IIT: we post our reasons for lifting
Xavier Hughes
Noah Jenkins
Because my hairs falling out and I don’t want to look terminally ill
Bentley Bennett
My health can be controlled, so I would rather control it than not.
Carter Morgan
People always called me a tall lanky guy before I started lifting and I hated it. Nobody has called me lanky since I started weightlifting.
Jason Price
this:
Justin Harris
Because in the unlikely event I ever find someone I want them to like what they see, because how could they like what I was when I was skinnyfat.
That is the only reason. How long until I give up because I don't even believe that will come to fruition yet still use it as inspiration somehow.
Nathaniel Allen
It's mostly that I like the sensation and possible feeling of achievement (not in a success way, but the way it's a hobby that provides solid new goals after effort is put in) that it provides. Also my body feeling gets better the fitter I get.
Fuck being a health nut though, life is all about experiencing which can very well be conquering your fears, but living a completly life of routine often lacks exposion necessary for real human growth.
Also intoxication comes from a part of the soul running counterpart to the rational one (apollinic-dionysic principles) and one should not over estimate the latter.
Henry Watson
Because it makes me feel good.
I train every single morning because physical exercise inhibits my autism and my anxiety.
Also people have been noticeably nicer to me since I seriously started lifting and I get lots of compliments/mires.
Levi Turner
Being a skinny boy slut is all fun and games until you hit 24.
Isaiah Davis
i lift for our lord and savior Jesus
Ryan Bell
Well, here's my deal: I'm an utterly forgettable student, I'm not particularly smart, my only real hobbies are vidya and shooting things, so if lifting doesn't find me some purpose, I don't really know where we go from there.
Jordan Allen
The nice thing about lifting is that you can just do it. You go, you lift as hard as you can and no one can judge you for it. It's super simple.
Nothing else is as simple
Grayson Cruz
Dylan Phillips
To go even further beyond
Cooper Hill
bullied and i have crippilingly low confidence and self esteem/image. getting Veeky Forums and Veeky Forums enough that i can dismantle anyone that tries to hurt me will make me feel safe enough to finally be myself. its a hell of a lot more a price to play than being some fat roastie but im afraid its the only way i can think of to overcome these feels.
Evan Cook
It just looks cool alright
Julian Jones
To gain the respect of other men.
I want the huge dudes at the gym to give me a nod of approval when I walk in.
I want to intimidate small men and women.
Jose Green
I feel like if I can be beautiful then it won't matter that im socially retarded and cant make friends because I'll be able to convince myself that I'm somehow above that
Bentley Flores
Getting ready for the race war.
Asher Morgan
A very small potion of your health can be controlled.
Charles Jones
PLAY MORE VIDYA AND WATCH PORN GOYIM!!!!!!
Ryan Barnes
This is the good things user. So many people are happy to stay fat and just find a different way to feel 'safe' which usually involved protecting their ego via seeing the world incorrectly. Think stupid fat women who actually think their weight is unimportant because they believe themselves to be 'smart'. You are putting the effort in to be both healthy, fit and smart and you will reap the internal rewards for doing so.
Julian Johnson
I lift because i was in a deep depression and my life went to shit, i broke up with my gf of 3 years and so on.
I just want something else on my mind and focus on my body.
Jose Martinez
im ugly, i have dry flaky skin, a sideways crooked nose from taking a knee to the face as a kid, a weak chin and alopecia so my head is full of circles
Ive come to terms with the fact that im ugly as shit and look like a monster. So now im just trying to become even more of a monster
Isaac Baker
Kek, lel, and other forms of laughter because you're stupid.
Alexander Torres
Same
Kayden Scott
because it's the only thing that gives me a sense of self worth
Easton Green
also for Mormon QTs
Ryan Thompson
>ywn go to SS boot camp with your bros
Owen Brown
to boost my test because I was really fucking depressed
sleeping 8hrs is good too, changed my life
Nolan Richardson
This quote right here convinced me to work out, not for women, not for anybody else but to make the vessel of my soul as strong and as aesthetic as possible.
Luke Cooper
121
>chad/stacey
This test is utter garbage.
I'm still a somewhat awkward permasingle manlet faggot who'll never really be comfortable with people.
Zachary Morgan
So I can feel good about myself and have a normal life. I also have a family history of cardiovascular illnesses and diabetes, so being a fat fuck is out of the question.
James Harris
I want to look like a Greek god
Bentley Ortiz
this is literally my motivational talk with my gymbro
Robert Cruz
Because I want to honor to my family name after the communists wrecked our legacy in 1917
>we wuz eastern european barons
Cooper Scott
I didn't need these feels
Jacob Ward
its the only time of the day that I like, thats why I work out 7 days a week for 2 hours a day.
Jacob Scott
nice legs
Justin Foster
>135
Hah
John Hill
I lift because once upon a time I believed it would help me get a happy life, and by now I am too invested in it to quit, even if I know better.
Connor Watson
to be fit for the military
Jeremiah Parker
For blood and soil
Ethan Thompson
For her
Dominic Parker
are you me?
Blake Reed
I'm starting to lift because I'm built like the goddamn Colossus Titan
Jace Rivera
Be strong brothers, together we'll resurrect the Ottoman empire.
Owen Price
As close as it gets
Ryan Barnes
Juan Butler
>Rippletits claims another victim
Mason Wilson
He didn't say that.
Josiah Adams
Bait too obvious. 0/10
Samuel Lewis
Because I must ascend to slayerdom.
It's not about the pussy, it's about the validation.
Jonathan Wright
Were you there?
Jaxson Ross
She is the ward of the Blessed Theotokos.
The Queen of Cities in the care of the Queen of Heaven.
A new Rome.
A new Jerusalem.
God's very footstool on this earth.
Constantinople, I lift for thee.
James Johnson
I want to become a Hero of justice
Tyler James
Jesus and Hitler
Aiden Rivera
The current people squatting in egypt are as egyptian as a red haired blue eyed perosn with an irish last name who claim to be native american because their great great great etc is native american so they can get some sweet indianamerican money.
Owen Stewart
oof mirin the legs
Joshua Moore
Ian Wood
To compensate for low self esteem. It's not really working.
Mason Torres
t. fatfuck that shitposts about how mean /fph/ is
Jonathan Fisher
Brandon Richardson
Gees, I’m sorry about that
Aaron Gomez
>57 robot
>5'8''
>190kg Squat, 135 bench, 220 Deadlift.
I just want to lift and be happy, but last year I discovered anime and tabletop games with a bunch of people.
Fuck
Brandon Jackson
Stop being a robot
Asher Hill
Y E S
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Jace Thomas
>To gain the respect of other men
This, but just respect from everyone in general. Noone respected me when I was a skinny lanklet. I saw myself from the side in a mirror once and hated how I looked and it always stuck with me.
Jeremiah Lee
Because i fucking love lifting, i love the burn when im trying to go for that last rep, the feeling of getting done with a workout. Its amazing
Ayden Reyes
For the Senate and People of Rome. Carthago Delenda Est.
Caleb Hernandez
Aiden Fisher
Beauty is 99% face.
Nathaniel Baker
Its religion; just has to be done
Alexander Phillips
>t: lifting for 4 months
Daniel Perez
Lots of reasons. What's kept me going lately is seeing my father and grandfather struggling more and more to get around, even just getting up stairs is getting hard for them as they're both now past 60 and obese. I never want to end up like that and I know that it's much easier to just keep yourself fit than to have to battle your way back in to shape when you're older.
Carter Powell
>get super buff
>get shot
>die anyway
Parker Ramirez
So I can justify my moderate standards in women and to stifle my extreme insecurity
Jacob Ross
To intimidate all men and seduce all women. I am an untouchable demigod.
Elijah Turner
Because I want to strive to see what my best form would look like. One day I'll get old and will never be able to get Veeky Forums again. When it comes I wanna say that I tried and knew what it felt/looked like.
Christopher Campbell
SPQR!
Salve, fellow Roman!
Eli Bennett
Because i have no other hobbies
Sebastian Allen
I plan to live forever, so first I gotta live long enough for life extension to pop up. I think of each rep as buying me another millisecond of life.
Jackson Mitchell
145. I checked off every single box in social lmao
Grayson Powell
To crush nigger skulls and fuck bitches
Parker James
Multiple reasons:
>Spent my entire life fat and lazy
>Depressed as fuck, lifting is good for mental health
>I hate cardio
>I'm not even religious but unironically for Jesus
>Upcoming Racewar
All of these
Jason Hernandez
/pol/tards are so fucking stupid
Andrew Campbell
They found red haired skellingtons in America so checkm8 user
Adam Lee
Triggered
Lincoln Ward
From 350 lbs to 242 lbs.
I've realized that this way is the best for myself, i feel better, i feel stronger, i feel more disciplined.
I feel alive when i do exercise, i am understanding myself into greatness.
Like an old friend said, ''All paths will lead to Rome with discipline and effort''
Alexander Adams
Because I'm tired of being a skinny little bitch, I want to be respected and viewed as attractive by women.
Also it feels really good and helps me sleep.
Owen Hernandez
Because I dream of being the best version of myself that I can be. Only by respecting myself, will others respect me.
I am in my mid 20s, as I age I am watching my peers bodies and health decline, they are beginning to look like a mess. I don't want to be like them, I hope that as I improve my self that they may be inspired to do the same.
I also know that if I want a high quality partner I will need to be a high quality person, being fit will only give me more options, I wont have to settle for chubby unhealthy women like I have in the past.
Jayden Myers
To protect my waifu
Nathan Perez
The only reason I want to become Veeky Forums for is myself, and myself exclusively. I want to see my body flourish and thrive, also to stop my IQ degradation.
Cooper Mitchell
look at all those dyels
William Hughes
>Mormon QTs
Adam Gutierrez
this except I'm still lanky
Dominic Evans
This did it for me.
Nathan Jackson
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this is bullshit. you either have "it" or you dont. trust me, real predators smell weakness even if you are big. i personally know guys who arent intimidated by anything or anyone and trust me, they arent all big. its in the eyes chico, they never lie. sure you will intimidate some wannabe's and beta males but i hope you never try to intimidate that little guy who is ready to fucking murder everyone in the room.
Matthew Sullivan
You sound almost exactly like me.
Julian Thomas
Dunno man, since i dont get much fun out of playing videogames i gotta do something with my time
Looking ripped would also be nice i guess