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How Many Years Have You Been Working Out?

How Many YEARS Have You Been Training?

  • Less Than 1 Year (Newbie)

    Votes: 35 20.7%

  • 1-2 Years

    Votes: 35 20.7%

  • 3-4 Years

    Votes: 23 13.6%

  • 5-6 Years

    Votes: 27 16.0%

  • 7-8 Years

    Votes: 12 7.1%

  • 9-10 Years

    Votes: 8 4.7%

  • 11-12 Years

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • 13-14 Years

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • More Than 15 Years (Bodybuilding Veteran)

    Votes: 8 4.7%

  • More Than 20 Years (Bodybuilding Veteran)

    Votes: 5 3.0%

  • More Than 25 Years (WOW True Vet)

    Votes: 6 3.6%

  • More Than 30 Years (Bodybuilding Legend)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    169
I'm stuck at two years here ... I've been doing sports all my life, but I'm dedicating the next 40 years or so to muscle ...

I'd like to thank all the fat people at work for the enormous motivation you provide me with every single day ...
 
Working out since I was 16 or younger (I'm now 40) but I've been serious and consistent in the weight room since 1992.
 
2 and a half years of bodybuilding.........11 weeks of powerlifting

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Started at age 16 not knowing anything in my backyard gym w/ those cheap concrete weights and plates. Those were funny days now that i look back on them... well been pretty serious about lifting last 2-3 years, diet is the hardest part to get in check. I love lifting but hate restricting.
 
ive been lifting since the age of 13 (18, almost 19 now), and have been consistent and serious since day 1.
 
I started lifting when I was VERY yound. like fuckin 3rd grade. I had a 3.3lb dumbell and cheap bench and 60 lbs of free weights. I only did arm curls and bench press. didnt know what they did, didnt care, i was really into "arm wrestling" other kids at school, and I always won.

I didnt really get serious until I was around 12(started checking out M&F from the local library every month), when I started wrestling. I'm almost 21 now, so over 8 years...
 
I think my first ever workout was in 95 or 96.... and I started going consistently in 96/97.... or at least, I THOUGHT it was consistently.

Isn't it funny how your level of knowledge, intensity, consistency.... they all seem to increase over time, in levels? I mean, back in the day I thought I knew what I was doing, thought I was consistent and training hard.... now when I look back, I making some ridiculous mistakes which make me cringe now.

For my first two years or so, I trained with my dad (who I thought knew what he was doing, but have since discovered he has NO idea) and was following a weight-training system called the "Matrix Principle" which involves light weights, and a lot of half-ups, half-downs, fraction reps (1/3, 1/5 reps etc) and isometric movements....

.... and have since discovered that it's a bunch of crap and I'm annoyed that I wasted so long trying to build muscle on a stupid system.

Now the only thing which is preventing me from making any real gains is my diet.... I don't have the money or means to buy a LOT of food. Sometimes I'm hungry, and just have to live with it.

But one day that will change.... one day.
 
About 10 years, well...with a 2 year break in the middle for a fascination with alcohol, pot, and partying. So...8 years:D
 
Started in -97 and didn´t know what I was doing. In -99 i quit for a year and came back -00 and this time I was motivated and I started to read and learn instead of listening to rumors and "advice" from friends who actually didn´t know shit.
So 2 years in march
 
Well guess I'm the OLD Man here, I'm 43 and started lifting when I was 17 years old. Initially it was all dumbbell workouts for everything but the weightlifting bug kept biting harder and it was soon down to the local club and total workouts with everything in site. Over 25 years now and still going, I guess there are many other things a person could get addicted to that would be far worse. I still like looking at the old guys like Arnold, Frank Zane and Sergio, todays Mr. Olympia's just look way too Freaky and Roided-up (sorry, I know many of them still want to claim that there just genetic freaks)
 
Big Arnold, I'm a young guy and I totally agree with you. Arnold looked so much better than the GH monsters of today. The GH monsters are cool, but nothing compared to the days of Arnold, Oliva, Columbo, Zane, etc. In my opinion, its all about symmetry(30" waist and cannonball shoulders):D
 
16 years now.....15 of them a bodybuilder and the last year powerlifting.
 
10 years in a month. Nonstop for the first 8-9 years, only missing a week in that period. Didnt have a gym available. And about a year ago I only trained a few times in a 2 month period due to 2 back injuries. Aside from that always consistant. I train for strength and size. KILL THAT SHIT!!
 
coming on 4 years
 
bout 6 years but it's only been in the last year that everything started clicking into place. Knowledge really is power.
 
Almost 11 years off and on. Never wroked out for more than 2 years consistently. Always some bullshit happens. Have had several year long or more stretched of lifting since I started. I'd say about 5 1/2 years actual lifitng experience.

No breaks or excuses anymore. I shoulda been a fucking monster 5 years ago dammit!
 
I have been weight training sence I was 11, but I had been doing push ups, chin ups, sit ups, and martial arts training sence I was 4.
 
i started winter of 96 in fredricksburg Va at the local Ymca..
Now I am in Kansas city, MO cant believe it has been that long....WoWy
 
6.5 months.. complete newb but still know better than most ppl at the gym lol (ppl whos been to gym for 3 times longer than me but still does biceps and chest only).
 
I started going to the gym when i was 16 (21 now), My biggest regret in life was not keeping it up during those years in between.
 
3 years. About a year and a half uninformed following bad advice, and about a year and a half of on point training and learning from previous mistakes.
 
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