What got you into weight-training/fitness?

Well, I'm just getting started - and I don't know how long I'll last; but for me it's not just about lifting weights, it's really more of a change in my life.

I'm a computer nerd. I've got one year left before I graduate with a computer degree. I've got a full-time, well paid, internship this summer, a programming job lined up next semester.

I've got a computer nerd girlfriend that I've been living with for the last year and a half. I never wanted a relationship, but I'm in one and I'm not sure if it's right for me. It sounds harsh, but it's the truth.

So I'm working 8-9 hour days, driving 2 hours each day to get to work. I haven't seen my friends since summer started (and even then I've been too busy with the gf to do guy stuff). Then last Monday, I think it was, I'm driving home, sitting in bumper to bumper traffic - and I realised that this is not what I want to be doing. Not now at least - maybe in a few years; but I don't want to graduate and get a job and have kids and devote my life to writting code and paying bills.

I want to 'live it up' so to speak. I want to sleep 'til noon and stay out all night. This next year is going to be a joke class-wise, I've decided to go to Bartending school - because at this point in my life I think that is the perfect job for me. And I'm doing everything I can to get my scrawny ass in shape.

(Sorry for the rant - but you asked).
 
I have so many reasons that have really gotten me started lifting. The first one i can remember is Jet Li. I was a kickboxer at the time and his power when I watched him on screen just seemed Godlike. My punches in kickboxing were kinda lacking. So I hit the gym.

The best thing in the world now is that compliment I hear almost every week at the club I bounce at. "That dude is huge!" or my other favorite compliment "Please don't kill me!!" lol I don't see myself as being that big too. I love it.
Everytime I hear that, I swear I take it up another notch in the gym.
 
At 11 i got Quite Fat and alot of people started telling me, so thats how i started to show them what Im capable of doing.
 
I've asked acouple friends and they say it's both but I know it's mostly my height. Being 6 foot 6 has it's advantages
 
Well i gotta say i did it to look good. Although i cant see what you guys means about it being addictive i can see why i carry on. I am very competitive, especially with myself so its always good pushing myself that little bit further! and pretty rewarding when you strap up that extra weight and push through it. Ohh yeah the girls saying look at that guy.....always a nice bonus but really i do it for myself......
 
Join a gym ChickaboomGURL, you will like it. I know you like that 'alone time' when working out, so do I sometimes, but at a gym everyone has a common goal. They are friendly but at the same time they keep to themselves when the need to. It is almost like everyone there hopes the best for you as you do for them. When you need help, they help you, and vice-versa.


RobDude, don't have too much fun in the party life. I'm doing that next year (with highschool). I have a high paying job, a bunch of fun and easy courses, and a lot of free time to have fun. Screw responsibility, I think everyone needs a time in their life where they just have fun and work out.
 
Tho I was active not active enough to keep the weight off so for me it wasn't until the gym across the street opened and I've gone faithfully for about 5 years and I really miss it when I don't go.
 
1st

I wanted to eat junk food without putting on too much weight

- then I liked the way it made me feel
- then I liked the way it made me look
 
I went from a lifestyle that was naturally active at college, walking 5+ miles a day, dancing, and phys ed classes to a full-time sedentary job at age 22 ... needless to say I started to get flabby and put on a little weight! So I got into fitness because I really want to look a little more like I did in college when I used to joke how it seemed I never put on weight!
 
I started wanting to shed some fat. I started with jogging 30 mins a day. This was 8 yrs back. Now I am completely addicted. Love it when I can still fit into dresses that I used to wear in school. My husband and parents think I am obssessed.
 
Well I never really cared about working out or training. I'm not athletic, and don't play sports that much. But one day one of my friend's said "hey you wanna come to the gym with me after school?" and I said yeah sure...Not knowing what I was getting my self into. So I went and back then I was so weak, so skinny. I couldn't lift anything that most guys were lifting. I was kind of ashamed and at the same time realized that I am so so weak. So now I was working out on and off 3 -5 days a week sometimes even skipping a few weeks because of vaccation or w/e for about 10 months. But now I see the results, and I feel great. Some of my friends are not going to the gym and they don't know what they are missing. I keep trying to get them to come, but cant convince them. Oh well, it's their choice. But anyway, that day when my friend asked me to come with him really changed my life. If he wouldn't I would probably never would go and start lifting. Overall I am adicted now and i love it :D
 
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