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Yimen E.Cricket
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I lift because i am not injured at the time.
Who am i kidding... I am injured all of the time. I lift any :saw: way
Who am i kidding... I am injured all of the time. I lift any :saw: way
jamesbrosky
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I started lifiting cause I got picked on in school.
I keep lifting and learning cause I love it.
I keep lifting and learning cause I love it.
Ivan Drago
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kmac6225 said:
Yeah, we haven't done dollar drafts in a while now.
dieseldude
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because it feels good....
I like the Arnold quote too
I like the Arnold quote too
SCORPIO
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I lift because I was turned on to it at an early age (14) by my older bro. We worked out together, it's how I got started leaning about training.....although I had no clue about diet. It made me look and feel great, even to this day. I like to think of the body as a work in progress......a block of clay which I can mold a bit at a time. Mostly I do it because I have a picture burned in my mind of how I want to look and will not stop until my physical appearance matches the picture in my mind!
phenom9950
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lol just do what i do slap 4 plates on there and rep it out for 20 5 plates for 15 6 plates 6-10 dont max out. ttakes the fright out of the growth part of flight. and if your more then double your size at 155 would that make you over 310 ? thats fucken awesome 
i hit 305 but i felt way to bloated im sticking with 280
i hit 305 but i felt way to bloated im sticking with 280 SWOLE93
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I lift because I go up against D-1 All Americans and former Pro Bowlers on the D-Line. I dont do it to look good or impress anyone. I am 6ft6 and 283 right now and gaining. I am not cut, or sloppy fat....just fit. I dont care what the people from my highschool think about me. Ofcourse they are like " Man you got bigger. " But I was 6ft5 and 250 in highschool. IMO your doing it for everyone else and not yourself. I laugh at 6ft nothing, 200+ guys like you walking around all swolen up and walking hard.Beelzebub said:
PS - I replied to your post because I am a Christian and deepening my faith and to see a dirt ball like you take The Lord's name in vain makes me ill to my stomache. He died for you and all you can do to thank him is hurt him. Sad....very sad.
SWOLE93
CEDeoudes59
USA HOCKEY
SWOLE93 said:
If you aren't stupid, you already realize you are big mainly because of your genetics. I can't put on 80lbs and become an offensive lineman, just like you can't cut up and become a wideout.
SWOLE93 said:
That's a nice Christian thing to say. I'm 6'1'' 210lbs I laugh at big Offensive linemen that I can outsquat and outrun. Seems like you got some sort of issue.
Chad
Banned
i started lifting for all the shallow reasons- girls, being able to beat the **** out of people, making my friends bitter that there girlfriends stared at me like its there job but now i do it cause i have nothing else. i lost the only girl i ever loved,all my friends think im stuck up but they wont talk to me about it cause they think ill roid rage on them or something. i love lifting but i sholdnt have let it run my life. oh well.
Ivan Drago
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SWOLE93 said:
Damn dude, those are my EXACT stats. We brothers?
I disagree with your mindset though. Walking around laughing at 200lbers? Why? Because they're working with what they were born with? Is it their fault they're not our height/size?
I respect the kids I see in my gym who are 180lbs at best, who go in, lift hard, with correct form, know what their doing, and obviously put forth the effort much more than the kids who come in with a good build, and **** around, lift like ****, put 100lbs too much on every exercise, and curl 4 days a week.
Work what you got to the best of your ability, and you should be respected. Doesn't matter if you're 5'6 170, or 6'7 310 at 8% bodyfat.
Doesn't Christianity teach anything about respect?
BIGAINS
Member
I geuss I started lifting because I was the skinny blond haired kid that got picked on in junior high, and when I was in highschool I went from 5'10" 140 to 205 in a few years people stoped picking on me and started to respect me. I stopped lifting for a couple of years due to injury and dropped down to 155, and I never want to feel that small again, currently 190 and growing. I also lift because it helps me relieve stress,and for me it works like a drug. It doesn't matter how bad of a day that I had when I go to the gym for that hour and have a good workout I feel euphoric, it is also a great self esteem booster, I love the look on peoples faces when they see a little guy reppin with 95lb bells on the military press. Sometimes I have trouble staying away from the gym on my off days because I like the feeling it gives me it's like masterbation for the soul. I geuss you coul say that it has turned into an addiction.
MikeBU
Developing Meathead
I lift for chicks, no doubt about that.
ManBeast, you voted for like 6 different things! I just noticed this haha thats not fair you gotta pick one thing.
Ivan, I know this thread is old but do you still work at Dockside? I know Jack he was in SAE here at BU and I was friends with all those kids, haven't seen him in awhile tho.
ManBeast, you voted for like 6 different things! I just noticed this haha thats not fair you gotta pick one thing.
Ivan, I know this thread is old but do you still work at Dockside? I know Jack he was in SAE here at BU and I was friends with all those kids, haven't seen him in awhile tho.
coofoostu
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I lift with the dream to one day to look like my avatar. The pump, like others have said, is a natural high and I love it. I think that if I was working out for girls, I'd just do mass cardio and high rep stuff, but I'd rather look like Arnold then some kid that's so thin his abs show through without working them out.
wranglergirl
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I lift because I like to challenge my body, so lifting, karate, running road races,riding mnt bikes...anything sports related 
jjjd
Active member
i started lifting weights primarily for weights competitions (Olympic Lifting and Powerlifting) and as adjunct training to improve my performance in other non-weights based sports.
however...
i have recently become very enamored of the aesthetic aspects - ie looking good.
simply put, it simply amazes me the increased attention i get from women and men (in the latter case, i am talking admiration and compliments like "dood, you are hyooge" not sexual comeons... "not that there is anything wrong with that" )
the other night i was standing outside a club, having just finished some food from the sidewalk vendor when a VERY attractive woman (accompanied by her boyfriend) came up to me and started saying how muscular i was, and asking me about working out, etc.
seriously. i was amazed.
she wasn't even drunk!
she asked if she could feel my muscles. i'm not joking, and started feeling my shoulders and pecs. she even asked me to flex.
then, 1/2 hour later, roughly the same thing happened. different woman - same behavior
and i was dressed rather conservatively, short sleeve shirt (somewhat fitted, though, but not "bber dorky muscle shirt at all", and in fact the sleeves went down to my elbows and it was NOT a muscle shirt)
i have gotta say, that is a VERY good feeling.
hey, i'm a guy. we all like a little ego stroking.
however...
i have recently become very enamored of the aesthetic aspects - ie looking good.
simply put, it simply amazes me the increased attention i get from women and men (in the latter case, i am talking admiration and compliments like "dood, you are hyooge" not sexual comeons... "not that there is anything wrong with that"
)the other night i was standing outside a club, having just finished some food from the sidewalk vendor when a VERY attractive woman (accompanied by her boyfriend) came up to me and started saying how muscular i was, and asking me about working out, etc.
seriously. i was amazed.
she wasn't even drunk!
she asked if she could feel my muscles. i'm not joking, and started feeling my shoulders and pecs. she even asked me to flex.
then, 1/2 hour later, roughly the same thing happened. different woman - same behavior
and i was dressed rather conservatively, short sleeve shirt (somewhat fitted, though, but not "bber dorky muscle shirt at all", and in fact the sleeves went down to my elbows and it was NOT a muscle shirt)
i have gotta say, that is a VERY good feeling.
hey, i'm a guy. we all like a little ego stroking.
CEDeoudes59
USA HOCKEY
the body is a wonderful conversation piece with girls. yours and hers - if you have a good body, girls wont think your a pervert and welcome conversation about the body
DmitryWI
I know nothing...
The other day hot hot woman came up to me (I was at the bar)
and said "I bet you've got some nice legs under those jeans, I want
to see them" Later that night I showed her not only my legs :whip: :hammer:
Also my confidence increases with every pound of muscle I put on,
it's why I lift.
and said "I bet you've got some nice legs under those jeans, I want
to see them" Later that night I showed her not only my legs :whip: :hammer:
Also my confidence increases with every pound of muscle I put on,
it's why I lift.
porch monkey
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i lift cause i love the attention, you know when youre pumped up, turnin heads and poppin peoples eyeballs. women can't take there eyes from you, you know what i mean, attention in ever sense of the word.
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kelsey
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I lift because it is empowering.
It is one thing i can actually control.
if i keep lifting even through extremely hard times, i emerge a better person every time.
if i stop when the going gets rough , ifeel that much worse about myself when i look in the mirror. or when i see guys that were way smaller than me putting on muscle, knowing full well i can look better and bigger than them in my own mind.\
not that it is a competition, but it does feel damn good to be big and be able to have your ego stroked by the fems....
It is one thing i can actually control.
if i keep lifting even through extremely hard times, i emerge a better person every time.
if i stop when the going gets rough , ifeel that much worse about myself when i look in the mirror. or when i see guys that were way smaller than me putting on muscle, knowing full well i can look better and bigger than them in my own mind.\
not that it is a competition, but it does feel damn good to be big and be able to have your ego stroked by the fems....
wranglergirl
Member
I never thought that so many guys lifted for girls, I am amazed but hey whatever makes ya happy!!!
porch monkey
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don't you like the attention that you get when youre there wranglergirl?
wranglergirl
Member
Actually it's annoying, I am not your typical girl, I work out to work out not get checked out or to check others out...........<shrug>
Romac
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well maybe not at that particular time, but overall, pretty much everything women do and think about is centered around attracting the opposite sex.wranglergirl said:
men are usually not much better, but the motives are a litle more basic. Men that work out to get chicks just want sex, while women that workout to get men just want to be sought after by the richest cutest combination. Women are so instinctively smart it pisses me off. Men are born with their brains in their dicks and women are born with instinctual tactics and strategy.
porch monkey
Banned
actually its anoyying
would you be able to get as good a workout in if there wasn't anybody there. i don't mean people staring at you all the time (werdios) that is annoying, i don't much like it when someone ive no intrest in watches me train throught my entire workout either, but on the other hand ive never failed to complete a heavy set of squats or any other exersize for that matter when there are people watching. so vanity has benefits.
:thumbsup:
would you be able to get as good a workout in if there wasn't anybody there. i don't mean people staring at you all the time (werdios) that is annoying, i don't much like it when someone ive no intrest in watches me train throught my entire workout either, but on the other hand ive never failed to complete a heavy set of squats or any other exersize for that matter when there are people watching. so vanity has benefits.
:thumbsup:
GuardDog
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I was a fat kid with an older brother who worked out. I picked up one of his muscle and fitness magazines and began thinking "Hmmm, I wonder and what if". So I started playing around with weights. My body adapted quickly and over the one summer before highschool, before I knew it, what started out as a little playing around, became an obsession. I had girls who I only dreamed about before, including girls I never knew existed, asking me out and coming on to me. That was enough of an energy force to fuel my fire for a long time.
Now, I do it for other reasons, health being one of them. However, on the days that I get down and don't want to do anything, I can think of the time and reasons long ago, and find that same energy to look good for my wife, who is also my training partner yelling at me to get my a$$ in our weightroom every morning.
Now, I do it for other reasons, health being one of them. However, on the days that I get down and don't want to do anything, I can think of the time and reasons long ago, and find that same energy to look good for my wife, who is also my training partner yelling at me to get my a$$ in our weightroom every morning.
kwyckemynd00
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I just want to be a freak...every time I hear someone tell me I look good at my current size and I shouldn't get any bigger (I'm not that big as it is, honestly) I'm more inspired to get bigger! I wanna walk through doors sideways! But, I wanna stay healthy, too, so I'll probably never get that big..
CDB
Registered User
I'd add one thing to the poll: mood control. I went through a major depression when I was younger, never want that to happen again even though it might despite any effort on my part. But nothing worked as well as exercise, specifically weight lifting, to moderate mood swings and keep me feeling good. Getting big and strong matters to me, but they run a distant second and third to my mental health and how working out effects my head. I was never medicated, and after seeing how most antidepressants usually have little to no difference than placebos in their effects on mood, I'm glad. No drug can ever be as good for me as a good workout.taffer said:i lift cos i enjoy it! there is nothing better than pushing your max, and achiving it!
and seeing results is always nice!
kwyckemynd00
Registered User
:drunk:GuardDog said:
That description in your signature, that's where I want to be. I'd put up with looking like the HULK (like a big green cave-man) as long as I was as freaky and strong as he is. It's fun. That's what I love about it. Some people (even guys these days) spend ours on end making themselves look "pretty" (damn girly-men :thumbsup: ). I just wear a t-shirt, jeans, and do my best to outgrow each of my outfits as often as possible. It's just my thing, ya know.
ironviking
The Axe Man Cometh!!
I've had a kinda theory on this. I think that the majority, definitely not all, have a warrior spirit inside them. There are no battles to be fought on the streets anymore, atleast not without serious legal consequences, so our battles are in the gym against the weights. Once you conquer a certain weight it becomes your ally and you move to the next weight.
The size you gain and the double takes you get in public are just reassurance that you are winning your battles. Think about it how many people that lift weights, hard and heavy weights, would want to die in there sleep? Not many now how many would want to die in a blaze of glory, go out fighting, raging RAGING AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT. We need to feel that we pay our dues everyday not because its what we want to do, but its because its what we are.
JMHO
The size you gain and the double takes you get in public are just reassurance that you are winning your battles. Think about it how many people that lift weights, hard and heavy weights, would want to die in there sleep? Not many now how many would want to die in a blaze of glory, go out fighting, raging RAGING AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT. We need to feel that we pay our dues everyday not because its what we want to do, but its because its what we are.
JMHO
Billy the kid
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It definitely keeps my mood on an even keel. If i miss a week i really see the old me (raging idiot) coming back. But as long as i am on my schedule i am a pretty cool and clear headed.CDB said:
Billy the kid
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I got goosebumps!ironviking said:
Iron Warrior
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:hammer: :box: :goodpost:ironviking said:
We are relentless in the pursuit of our goal, we are disciplined, we are a few of a kind. Hardly anyone is committed like we are.
BryanFury
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Well, I got some needed validation again today. I've been dragging a lot as of late from depression and personal issues. Went out for the first time in about two weeks. Who do I see at the party, but my ex fiance and her guy sitting on the couch. (take into consideration I weighed about 60lbs less when we were together and I'm only 5'7) Thinking that this isn't helping any after I've been there a while, she comes over and starts talking to me. Grabbing my arm, the works. He comes over, I tell her I'm going to head out so I can go clean up leftover turkey, and she tells me she doesn't want me to leave.
That is one of the reason I lift. Being the biggest guy at the party, it is sweet validation. Not to mention its just fun.
That is one of the reason I lift. Being the biggest guy at the party, it is sweet validation. Not to mention its just fun.