I discovered the Misc forums on Bodybuillding.com back when I was in 11th grade. I thought it was hilarious and wasted hours of my junior and senior year on that forum.
Some time during my freshman year of college I thought "hmm, I spend so much time on bodybuilding forum so maybe I should actually try lifting".
First i did it for a girl.
3 years later i did because of girls like Sasha, i wanted to go full tranny, but no more.
Now i do it for pic related
We're all gonna make it brah
>>35432155
Im starting because my friend who's half my weight was able to pick me up and walk me out of my own house. I couldn't even lift him. My goal is to chuck his ass across the room.
>>35467037
how much do you weigh?
Started lifting because I actually want to be appealing to someone for once in my life.
>>35466919
I was 3 months from finishing up my Bachelors in my late 20's. I hadn't been in decent shape since I wrestled at the beginning of high school. I always fucked around as a kid and never actually put effort forth with anything, so I decided I wanted to get strong and I wanted to see how far I could go. I was also tired of feeling like shit sitting at a computer all day eating garbage. Back problems also run in my family and I wanted to avoid those. So I decided over my last spring break that now is the time, not later. That was about a year and a half ago. Never looked back.
>>35467028
KayPea is life.
first girls but lately I've been notice that going to the gym makes me stronger mentally, I like that feel.
High-school football. Regret it though because I picked up so many bad habits from that retard inbred "coach" and lifted incorrectly for years because I PLAYED FOOTBALL BRUH I THINK I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!
>to squat just look at the sealing, crouch down ass to grass then jump up with the weight
>deadlifting you just get the weight to waist height however the fuck you can
>lol power clean you mean jump shrug reverse bicep curl?
>you don't need to work hamstrings or lats or rhomboids ever, you push with your chest and shoulders and drive with your quads while tackling. Who needs a balanced musculature around crucial joints?
>>35467111
Kelsie is the best waifu ever
Always wanted to be fit but assumed I couldn't do it.
Saw a buddy of mine who I hadn't seen for a while and he had lost a ton of weight and looked so much better.
Got pretty jealous and decided that I wanted to be like that.
Started lifting the next day.
The gym was free and being strong is fun.
10th grade and wanted to impress a girl, the girl ended up hating me and I continued lifting.
Because I've been unhappy with my body for nearly a decade now, and that's fucking stupid. I decided that it was time to buckle down and really make an effort at changing things. Honestly? It's going pretty well so far, and it shouldn't be too much longer before I hit my first goal.
I didn't.
>>35466919
I'm not sure if that's a boy or a girl, and I don't care.
I started lifting to train for sport.
>>35467416
She's female. I think she's part of the national weightlifting team for some Latin American country (can't remember which one).
When I got into anime senpai
>>35466919
Name ?
I started lifting cause I've been athletic all my life. It all started when my uncle showed me some Bruce Lee's movies when I was 8 or 9. I started doing push ups and abs workout since that day.
I did Taekwondo after that. Got me bored and I did some Boxing and MMA.
I stopped all this when I was 19 and injuries made me stop sports during a long time.
Since I wasn't able to use my legs cause of my knee injury, I started lifting. I still go back to boxing sometimes but not consistently.
+ The girls attention I got for my body when I was a teenager always make me go back to sport when I'm starting to become lazy.
>>35467480
Yeah and forgot watching Anime all my life is the main reason I got into all this fighting sports and lifting shit.
DBZ, Hokuto No Ken, YuYu Hakusho, GTO , City Hunter all gave me motivation.
My dad got me into, and I've continued ever since
because of /fit/.
I started going on 4chan some time around 6-7th grade,I was becoming a fedora wearing, anime watching, mountain dew drinking, linkin park listening neck beard (I was also fat as shit), and 4chan made me realize how stupidly I was acting. So I cut ties with my weabu friends and changed. by the time I got to high school I kinda hated the person that I was and wanted to change more ( I was still fat as shit) so I joined a couple of sports and the lifting class that my school had. I thought that by doing that I would become faster/stronger/skinnear or whatever but me and my coaches had no idea how to fucking train so I started looking up shit on my own, found out about /fit/, read the sticky, and I have lurked here ever since.
tldr 4chan stopped me from being something I know hate and /fit/ made me make athletic progres
>>35467037
278 as of checking today.
I started lifting to help overcome anorexia. All the professionals insisted any exercise during recovery is an inevitable disaster and will never work, but I was so terrified of gaining fat I knew I would never fucking make any progress unless I focused on gaining muscle instead of just gaining weight. The mental health industry, for EDs in particular, is such a toxic mess. It was hard as fuck and I'm still not fully recovered by any means, but I'm in a way better place physically and mentally. Exercise helped significantly with improving my mental health, way better than any retarded pill did. And I tried them all, every stupid SSRI, SRNI, MAOI. I tried DBT and CBT and residential and outpatient and MinnieMaud and talk therapy, none of it ever made a difference. Once I started lifting, I'm hypercompetitive and easily obsessive, so I just started directing all my obsession into lifting. Naturally, I got fucking sick of having weak ass lifts, so I ate more to improve. Maybe some people can stop an obsession outright but I couldn't do it, replacing my obsession with something healthier has been a godsend.
Like I said, I'm not perfect now and I still have some ways to go to being a totally healthy weight, but my bloodwork, vitals, and EKG are SIGNIFICANTLY better, almost to the point that I'm on par with people who aren't disordered. I'm improving every single day and staying out of hospitals, whereas before my life consisted entirely of competing with other insanely sick individuals to be the sickest in an institution. I look and feel way better (and have better bloodwork + vitals) than anyone I know who did traditional recovery and just ate 3500 cals of carbs until they gained a massive amount of weight. A couple of them are even prediabetic now, but none of them are mentally healthy and are all just obsessed with losing the weight again. Fuck treatment actually.
>>35466919
>Girl in webm doing good mornings
>Has very good spinae erector and anterior leg mobility
>Still doing them anyway
Why lads, why?
one day i realised i was having trouble reaching my laces to tie my shoes coz of my gut. that wasnt enough though. there was a girl, she left. we were never even together. i realised there was no way she'd have been with me anyway coz if i hated myself as much as i did, why would she? so i started to the last thing i remembered being happy doing - lifting in high school.
that was 5 years ago. I lost 90 lbs.
>>35468064
You didn't try an NDRI type medication?
That and cutting bodyfat did wonders for me mood wise, where just lifting at a higher bodyfat did little.
>>35468077
Because good mornings aren't a mobility exercise
So I can reap all the rewards of exercise. Seriously there's so many benefits it makes you look more attractive, better libido, sense of well being, happier, increased confidence, prevents disease and sickness(I never get sick anymore even when everyone I lives with gets sick),sex is more fun, less stress, increased focus,more motivated, I can go on and on lifting has literally been the best thing I've ever done for myself in my whole life.
>>35468231
Their main use is to remediate pelvic tilt imbalance mate, so yeah, they are.
>>35468102
Almost impossible to get a script for one if you are underweight or suffering from a restrictive eating disorder. Low appetite and weight loss are common side effects. I hate the concept of meds anyways, probably never would have worked for me because of how strongly against it I am.
>>35468266
By doing what exactly?
Oh yeah, by strengthening the hamstrings
>>35468266
No. The main use of good mornings for lifters has always been strengthening the posterior chain. Mobility is irrelevant to that, except as it sets your maximum ROM.
>>35468266
That's like saying stiff legged deadlifts are a mobility exercise
>>35468064
Good for you mang.
I started because I'm super fucking competitive and my roomate was lifting and became stronger than me.
>Played football, lifted and ate right in highschool
>Naturally big and relatively strong
>Football ends and I stopped lifting regularily.
>It's been about a year and half since and started lifting again about 3 months ago
I feel weak as fuck, but i've got better mass than ever, I'm never not motivated to lift because I always want to compete and if I can't find someone else I compete against myself
>mfw I'll probably end up on roids just because it would let me lift more.
>>35466919
W H O ? !
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I must marry this qt 3.14 anon, what is her name?!
>>35467416
>>35467480
>>35468458
Her name is either Sasha Nievas or Joana Palacios.
http://www.allthingsgym.com/pancake-good-mornings/
She's a junior which in the IWF means she's anywhere from 15 to 20 years old. Here's hoping she's legal.
>>35467416
>>35467480
>>35468458
https://www.instagram.com/sashis_n/
>>35466919
Frankly for grills and then for myself. I have been alone for way too long and my shitty body isn't helping my confidence. It's been 8 years brahs.
>>35468487
if you've been alone for 8 years I don't think the issue is your body, it's your lack of trying.
>>35468493
You got me senpai.
But now I'm working in a office and I have this qt working with me and I'm using her as a motivation.
Got better cloths, better haircuts, some nice perfumes. Now to take care of this shitty body.
I worked in construction prior to lifting. I didnt know a thing, in fact I judged all my friends whove been lifting from a young age. The whole curlbro culture was so cringey.
One day my friends like yo come on its raining were off lets hit the gym. He hit a DL pr that day of 245 lbs and hes been lifting for close to a year. He was very hype about it. I was copying his workout and this was the last thing were doing and I just picked it up. I was like thats it? just do it once?
He was so confused when i was picking it up over and over with no effort.
And from that day I liked lifting.
>>35468480
she's 17 or 18 senpai. We're in the clear. well, at least I am (18)
>>35468504
>245 after a year
>>35468500
That's good, but I think you should forget the qt and find other girls. I was pretty much in your situation and tried asking this girl out. Of course she rejected me since I hadn't done this for so long and did plenty of mistakes. Everything after that was awkward as hell and I wish I had gone for other girls instead of someone I had to see all the time.
>>35468493
Fuck.. you just made me realize I've been alone for 5 years.
>>35466919
I started because I realized I was sick of being weak mentally and physically, and it only took 22 years of my life to realize it. Hoo-fucking-ray.
>>35468521
>Fuck.. you just made me realize I've been alone for 5 years.
could be worse. I've been alone for 15
>>35468520
I'm not trying to get with her, I'm just training on her without pulling the trigger and fucking myself over.
I just shoot the shit with her and I'm having fun again. Do I try to impress her? Yes, but that's about it.
>>35468539
sounds good to me. my problem was that this girl eventually started sending me some signals, and after being alone for so long I immediately fell deeply in love with her. it was pathetic as fuck, but I couldn't control it at all and it was one of the more painful experiences of my life. hopefully it won't happen to you, but getting back to dating after years of solitude has been a lot more emotionally draining than I thought it would be.
>>35468508
19 here. Regardless, it's a non pornographic webm so it doesn't matter anyway.
>>35468101
You made me feel anon
>>35466919
To quit being a skelly and become more feminine. It worked, but now lifting is way more than that to me.
>>35468632
post progress pics
When she left I saw what my life had become; pure shit and she was the only good thing about it.
And partially spite; I figured if I got fit enough it'd show her up.
I was never concerned about getting fit to get her back; just to make her feel shitty.
>>35468610
i still hate myself btw
>>35468480
>>35468481
Erf, too young + she looks better on webms than she truelly is.
>>35468528
>>35468521
excluding a couple magical months, ive been alone for 21 years.
>>35468574
To be honest if you asked me I would probably say I'm in love with her but it's only because she is my only stable contact I have with a girl for more then 1h at a time. I mean I talk to her all day, everyday for the past year and she is really kind and responses well to my jokes and whatnot.
Couple of months ago I let go and realized I fell for her, BAD, but now I keep reminding myself every couple of weeks to relax on the love thing and just have fun. It's going great especially the last month around the holidays because work wasn't that hard, we had a blast. She truly rejuvenated me
Started lifting because I'm afraid of being physically disabled.
I have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Figured that it is better to relapse with a stronger, healthier body than a weak and fat one.
>>35466919
Pic related is all I know about Misc
>>35466919
literal 100% chance you were a no avi red
>>35467129
You had a bad football coach. Our coaching staff was great at programming and we had a few coaches who competed in oly and power lifting.
>>35470941
That's a legendary thread.
>>35471168
No avi but I actually had a decent amount of rep power.
>>35466919
Zach?
>>35466919
>hmm, I spend so much time on bodybuilding forum so maybe I should actually try lifting
This is why I left the misc
>>35471168
this
>>35466919
I had nothing to do when i stopped boxing
>>35466919
middle school pe
>Medium height white kid
>Coach let us use the weight room
>teaches squats and bench
>squatting
>holy shit l love this
>Couple weeks later the tall black kid and tall mexican kid are jumping and touching the net
>medium height white kid can touch the net too
Felt good man
