How many years have you been into bodybuilding?

[djsf]

Been working out 23 years. I started when I was a teenager because my mom, who was divorced, single and dating at the time kept pointing out muscular guys to me and said to me (I was a skinny kid at the time), "see, if you lift weights you can look like that!". Parents don't always realize the power that they have. So I got one of those Sears weight sets, you know, the ones with plaster inside the plastic "plates" and started lifting. The kid upstairs, who was about 3 years older than me and hit puberty first, started ligting and got an impressive physique, so I guess I was kind of competing with him, or trying to be like him.

I wonder how many people here started working out because one parent or the other told us we were too skinny?

 

[jdevlin1985]

i guess you've made tremendous gains since your beginnings.

ABSOLUTELY

 

[anal itch]

I wonder how many people here started working out because one parent or the other told us we were too skinny?

Not mine, they kept feeding me pasta and canoli's! That's why I was almost 300lbs

 

[jdevlin1985]

Not mine, they kept feeding me pasta and canoli's! That's why I was almost 300lbs

LMAO!

 

[swordfish151]

I had the same problem as anal_itch....I was a fat kid..coming from an "ethnic" background, my mother fed and fed me when i was young...i was a lard ass...at 16 i just got fed up with it...and it wasnt because i was made fun of school...i was the popular fat kid...but because my cousins friend left his FLEX mag at my house...I started looking at it...I WAS HOOKED...ever since then i have had the BB bug.

 

[anal itch]

I had the same problem as anal_itch....I was a fat kid..coming from an "ethnic" background, my mother fed and fed me when i was young...i was a lard ass...at 16 i just got fed up with it...and it wasnt because i was made fun of school...i was the popular fat kid...but because my cousins friend left his FLEX mag at my house...I started looking at it...I WAS HOOKED...ever since then i have had the BB bug.

damn, 16. That rocks. I was 22 when I started...

 

[coldblue1955]

Been working out 23 years. I started when I was a teenager because my mom, who was divorced, single and dating at the time kept pointing out muscular guys to me and said to me (I was a skinny kid at the time), "see, if you lift weights you can look like that!". Parents don't always realize the power that they have. So I got one of those Sears weight sets, you know, the ones with plaster inside the plastic "plates" and started lifting. The kid upstairs, who was about 3 years older than me and hit puberty first, started ligting and got an impressive physique, so I guess I was kind of competing with him, or trying to be like him.

I wonder how many people here started working out because one parent or the other told us we were too skinny?

not mine lol.

 

[coffey]

not long enough, and I started because I wanted to lose weight. Which I did, dropped 45lbs while building muscle simultainiously(spell that one wrong..)

 

[swordfish151]

damn, 16. That rocks. I was 22 when I started...

Yeah but trust me...at 16, I didnt know how to train/eat/ or how to take supplements (legal) so i yo-yo'd most of my teen years...not up untill a couple or more years back is when the "wisdom" starting sinking in..you now how we were when we are kids..we get preached to...and we ignored...

 

[LT3]

You must spread some Karma around before giving it to anal itch again.

ever won a contest?

Not yet bro. hopefully in the near future.