i started training because i got cut from the freshman basketball team when i went to high school (i had transferred to a new school.) the shit really pissed me off. my cousin was a coach of a college basketball team. so i went to their practices everyday. a lot of the guys on the team were hella cool to me. they kind of took me in under their wing, and got me into the gym. shit, i remember the first time i thought that i had some confidence in the gym, and this guy bet me that i couldnt bench 135. i barely managed to squeeze it out. and felt like hot shit! (man, i've come a long way since then.)
all through HS i lifted to get stronger for sports. i got to college and walked on to a football team. it became a full time job there, and i quit so i could pay some bills.
now, lifting is just what i do. its my life. there is nothing that i like more than getting under a huge amount of weight, and being able to lift it, in whatever lift it is. i love the challenge. i love unracking a heavy ass weight, and feelin its pressure. i love the fact that people look at you when you are doing something that they cant. and then when you accomplish it, they come up to you and say "that was fuckin bad ass. watching you do that inspires me." i love it when i set new PR's, it makes my day. i love being able to break a goal that i have had for a long time, it makes all the training worth while. i love the smell of the musty, sweaty dirty sock scent of the gym. i love smelling my gym cloths when i got to wash them. i love the sounds of plates clanging and banging (that is, when i dont have my MP3 player.) i love (and live) for the pain, and soreness the next day after a killer workout. i love it when i almost puke or pass out after paying my dues to the squat rack. i love it when people tell you that they want to look like you because of your physique. i love the looks i get from the girls. i love turning people on to lifting. i love being able to get up the next morning, after a long night of partying, and lifting hard, knowing that everybody else fights their hangovers by trying to sleep it off. i love every single fuckin thing about it. i lift because it is my life, its just what i do.