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What influenced you?
- Thread starter Scout200
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Honestly, I've always enjoyed being active. As a child all through primary school, I was definitely doing more than the Healthy Living Guidelines for Children have as their minimum (they say kids need at least 60min of vigorous activity daily, and I was easily playing hard 4 hours most days of the week).
I was very resilient to going tot he gym the first time. My dad made me go. I thought gyms were just places where people hang out on treadmills to lose weight. At the time I was underweight. When I saw that they had weights, I fell in love. At the time, I had also had a brief history of martial arts training at school and had been doing push ups daily, and bodyweight squats frequently (probably with attrocious form for both). I wasn't able to stay at that gym for long - my parents had only signed me up for a 1month membership, and I had no income of my own or even pocket money from my parents, so I couldn't afford to stay at the gym. Later in the year I did swordfighting for 6 months, and then the following year I got my first 6-month gym membership. By that stage, I knew exactly what I wanted, and it was to be STRONG. Not big, just strong. Well, my training was pretty sloppy for achieving that goal, and my nutrition was even worse, so I spent a LOT of my training life spinning my wheels. I've gotten a bit smarter in recent times, and have made some progress. The goal is still the same.
I was very resilient to going tot he gym the first time. My dad made me go. I thought gyms were just places where people hang out on treadmills to lose weight. At the time I was underweight. When I saw that they had weights, I fell in love. At the time, I had also had a brief history of martial arts training at school and had been doing push ups daily, and bodyweight squats frequently (probably with attrocious form for both). I wasn't able to stay at that gym for long - my parents had only signed me up for a 1month membership, and I had no income of my own or even pocket money from my parents, so I couldn't afford to stay at the gym. Later in the year I did swordfighting for 6 months, and then the following year I got my first 6-month gym membership. By that stage, I knew exactly what I wanted, and it was to be STRONG. Not big, just strong. Well, my training was pretty sloppy for achieving that goal, and my nutrition was even worse, so I spent a LOT of my training life spinning my wheels. I've gotten a bit smarter in recent times, and have made some progress. The goal is still the same.
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underdog13
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i have always enjoyed sports/working out and doing weight training/running are the only things i have had a keen interest in. trying to be healthy within reason is important. i started some martial arts classes last week and i feel some benefit already. it is fun and a good workout but im interested in it for self defence more, i dont have much else going for me in a fight other than speed since i weigh around 130pds.
I was tired of being embarrassed about taking my top off on beaches or when swimming. I was very skinny and wanted to be able to protect my wife and kids (living in London this can be important).
I quickly fell in love with lifting as it's a physical hobby you can do even with the type of injuries I've picked up over the years from playing football so it gives me a focus away from work and being a dad
I quickly fell in love with lifting as it's a physical hobby you can do even with the type of injuries I've picked up over the years from playing football so it gives me a focus away from work and being a dad
I've gotten a bit smarter in recent times, and have made some progress. The goal is still the same.
That's incredible that you were active 4 hours a day when you were a child!! It sounds like your motivation for being physically active is innate. I wish I could say the same about myself! LOL That's awesome!!!
-Scout