Post stories of what inspired you to start lifting
I'll start:
>tripping on acid with the lads
>have to take a piss
>go in my buddy's washroom, it's like entering another universe
>take piss
>stare in the mirror above the sink for a good 20 minutes before leaving
>see my pathetic skinny DYEL body
>sudden epiphany
>think about how a few hundred thousand years ago during hunter-gatherer times, the strong men were respected and feared, while the weak and skinny were at the bottom of the social hierarchies/food chain, literally seen as jokes by the women, and seen as prey by the men
>realize that hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary biological programming doesnt just disappear
>realize these instinctual societal dynamics are almost definitely still at play in the modern world, whether people realize it or not
>probably pseudo-scientific acid logic bullshit, but words cannot describe how profound this felt to me
>instant and intense desire to get big
and I've been lifting ever since, the intensity of that insight has since diminished but it is still very much there. My habit is still mostly sustained by how much greater life feels when I'm lifting, but that was the initial inspiration
What inspired you to start lifting?
> got from almost underweight to slightly overweight between ages 15-21
> tried to get into various sports but nothing really stuck.
> ended up just going for walks or riding my bike for an hour or so every other day
> read some existential philosophy, motivating me to get physically stronger, and to work on confidence and things like that
So at that point I just asked one of my best friends who has been going to the gym for years and is really into that stuff to help me out with creating a schedule and getting my form right; now going for about 2 months, never skipped.
> turn 30
> everyone around me is getting fat
> im getting fat. fuck
>Honestly, I can remember being overweight since 3rd grade. Not obese, but always heavyset or flabby.
>I've of course tried getting in shape before, again and again, spending hundreds on a gym I never went to, but it never stuck.
>So I'm 22, still a virgin, and I met this cute Christian girl, fucking adorable, somehow convinced her to go on a date with me, actually end up going on a couple, and I think 'is THIS what I want to present to her?' You know?
>So I got into keto. Read up on macros. Watched Radu Antoniu's videos on YouTube. Had a folder full of DBZ and fitness motivation etc.
>Even after she broke it off the habit still stuck, and I finally saw the scale start to move.
>So I made a spreadsheet, tracked my weight loss, the tangible results gave me motivation to keep going.
>I went down pant sizes. Needed new belts.
>Best feeling was I got my old pants that haven't fit since high school, and realized those were TOO BIG for me. I was in cloud nine.
>Long story short I went from over 204lbs to 172lbs in 4 months and you could see it in my face.
Fast forward to now, I'm back up to 185lbs, new gf (lost virginity so whoo!), And I want to pack on muscle until Feb, then cut down again.
Tldr: started for a girl, she ended it but I saw the weight loss results and lifted for myself. Now onwards and upwards
i was bored
a mirror
I looked in the mirror and said “you look like shit, you fucking sack of shit”
Got a job working with guys who have done physical labor for years, and realized I was a twig boy.
When I ran track I saw this guy bench 315 in my high school gym. Was a skinnycunt his freshman year and ended up a sickcunt by senior year. Definitely attribute my early gym going to him.
>community college forces you to take a health class
>always felt I was seriously unhealthy, never really lifted unless a friend was curling dumbells or something
>of course I grew up playing sports and tag and stuff but not on official teams just with friends
>anyway, health class has us weightlifting and exercising
>everyone else in the class is either obese or just in generally worse shape than me somehow
>feels good, they all notice I can lift more, and struggle less with any given exercise
>decide that attention felt good
>plus the health teacher is basically telling us we're gonna die unless we get healthier
I dunno bros something just clicked for me. I was like "wow I can do this, it's really not so hard." Wish I could remember the teachers name, she did a good job at getting us into a routine and diet plan.
If I’m going to be a low status hermit loser I might aswell be a athletic and fit looking low status hermit loser
eric bugenhagen
marcus follin
alexander leonidas
i sat in my girlfriends lap and she make me get off because my hip bones hurt her thighs. gained over 100lbs since then but never had a gf since.
Living the dream bro
unironically? i read the bap book and realized the importance of a good physique
Got a full time job with a gym next door. Bought a subscription the day I got paid. That was March, gained 15 lbs since then, resting at 203lbs and 6'3.
The hardest thing I've had an issue with is my calves, but I know with a strict regimine and more protein and calories, I'll hit 240 and gigachad status.
I hate my job now, got promoted twice already, but the only thing that keeps me there is the gym.
Based
What inspired you to start lifting?
>Rejection issues involving family/childhood manifesting themselves as no self respect
>Chubby in highschool, rejected by girls
> 98th percentile IQ but confidence too low and too initimidated to try to better myself
>Feeling of guilt from lack of fulfilled potential in many aspects of life
>Suicidal ideation for many years
>Find interest in biology, neuroscience and psychology, begin quest to conquer mind through discipline.
>Fix work life and family and self-confidence
Fitness is just another burden that makes life meaningful.
Nice digits
I don't remember why i started lifting, probably for the aesthetics. But this quote made me start caliesthenics
>always been a fatty
>biggest was 110kg
>go out drinking with friends and get alcohol poisoning
>paramedics and friends struggled to lift me into ambo
>realize when it comes to physical activity I'm a drain on my friends
This was about 2 months ago and I'm now down about 13kg. Gonna get to 80 then start bulking up
>Get into first serious fight two years ago with some guy outside a bar due to a sports team argument. I engaged
>scuffle around on the ground for a bit
>break apart, land what I thought to be a perfect swing square in his face
>noeffect.jpg
>Panic like i've never paniced before
>like a bizarre existential meltdown about how ineffective I am as a man right then and there
>Resort to stabbing that dumb bitch in the armpit with a switchblade I kept on me whenever I go to the city just in case
>turn and split, make the 2 hour trip home that night
Never got in any shit for the incident, but it really made me want to be able to stand up for myself more
Are you Ray Lewis?
Heart break which led to months of depression and finally coming to the realisation of the red pill.
sorry bro but you're stupid as fuck. yes, ancient humans were athletic. but they weren't gay niBBas who lift for aesthetics. they were cardio machines. the guy who could chase a gazelle for 7 hours nonstop was the most respected, not a gymcel.
>be depressed
>get gym membership to feel like i’m progressing towards something and to kill time since I wasn’t finding joy in life
Don't wanna go into too much detail because I've bitched enough about it here since it happened in the beginning of the year, but basically:
>gf of 6 years tried to cuck me just before Christmas last year
>walked right the fuck out as I realized there's nothing in the world that absolutely sickens me more than the thought of letting another man fuck my gf, and she wouldn't take no for an answer
>moved back in with parents, spiraled into deep depression
>you bros were here to call me a faggot and a bitch which is what I needed
>decide to lift instead of an hero
>fast forward almost one year, semi fit DYEL instead of skinnyfat weakling, only 8 months of nursing school left
>yesterday, on the last day of clinicals, got the number of an 8/10 new grad nurse
We are ALL gonna make it.
i have begun to follow the teachings of the Buddha, and he says that by being more skilled and working towards bettering myself will decrease the suffering of everyone and everything.
by making myself better i make the world better
really i could be called: Hero
i dont do it for the knowledge that i am bettering man kind, rather i do it because Buddha said so
Well, you got it wrong, they weren't lifting weights either.
Take the SPRINT PILL you dumb degenerates!
>just be a perfect one in a million ascended human specimen bro
I lift because it feels good
Alright so my wake up call was when I was tired of seeing flab in the mirror. I used to be really fit but soon college happened and body went to shit because all id do was eat 6 ramen bags a day and play call of duty. I was 135 and almost hit 200 lbs when I had a revelation that being a fat fuck wasnt what I wanted to be. I'm back to near perfect weight and already making good progress. Lets hope next year I regain my physique of youth.
This makes me happy, good for you dude.
Ok, so I'm gonna tell you my story:
>Be me (5'11 manlet)
>Be me two months ago
>Be a fucking 86 kg fatso (190 lb)
>Crush rejected me
>Got severely depressed
>Start drinking, crying and all that stuff
>Suddenly got some fucking inspiration from nowhere and i say fuck this shit
>Start going to the gym and start a strict diet
>One month of intense cardio and dry fasting
>Start getting tired, sad and mad about not eating/drinking, it was hard because i love Tacos but still keep my diet and routine
>First two weeks are hard as fuck, crush is dating an idiot, feel terrible
>Still keep going to the gym to release more endorphins
>Didn't weigh myself because fear after a month
>Second month
>I start lifting, don't have any gains but still feel more stronger
>Start to feeling good
>Start to wearing better clothes, have better hygiene, got a better haircut
>Weigh today
>77 kg (170 pounds)
>Now i just want to lose another 3-5 kilos more
>Bitches are starting to notice my self improvement
>Stop thinking about my stupid crush and just plain ignore her
>Now i'm drinking milkshake protein and HIIT to look better
It was hard, but i lose a lot of kilos in only two months, i was 86 kg, now i'm 77 kg
I wish I could lift more
i had skinny arms and i wanted bigger arms
now, years later, i have bigger arms
I had a rough breakup after 4 years of knowing this QT. We dated for like 2 and a half years and it was the best I'd ever felt in life. She got uninterested in me despite doing everything I could, and we ended up breaking up. I lift to be the man I could never be in that relationship. I lift to become absolutely fucking shredded and show her what she missed out on.
I was always healthy weight but since everyone around me is so fucking goddamn fat they dwarfed me. Now I just want to get an athletic body and do muay thai or boxing so I can finally be around disciplined people, and stop having everyone treat me like shit.
Based and honestpilled
trips of truth.
good for you bro, we're all gonna make it.
these are the trips of truth as well.
if i ever found out my gf wanted to cuck me, id knock her square in the face.
good for you, be a real fucking man.
keep your chin up and good luck with the new nurse girl.
M8 hunter gatherers were not big. Big muscles didnt help with survival in nature. Humans survived because of our endurance. In fact I think we’re the best at it. We would get outrunned by our prey, but our endurance is what secured our survival. We literally hunted prey into exhaustion. Look at irl hunter gatherers. It does not fit the art depictions you seen. We had lean muscle at best
Also food wasn’t guaranteed everyday. We were always on the move being nomadic... lots of cardio
Looked in the mirror and realized I went from skinny to skinny fat during college, and I looked like garbage. Started lifting seriously in January, and I love it more and more each day. Now I lift to be like All Might and for my waifus.
Bigger than 99% of /cbt/ threads
Thank you, bro, I really appreciate your words of confidence.
You win some, you lose some
was a /b/tard (lol memes)... one day noticed there were other boards.. clicked on a few... reached Jow Forums.. zyzz threads everywhere instantly hooked. not. even. kidding.
absolutely chad
Promised a cheating whore of an ex girlfriend I'd outfuck her 10 to 1. Followed through on it. Took several years. Now I'm strong as fuck. 220 lbs, 6'1", 20% bf though. Need to cut to 12%
Only niggers did this. Europeans had to be very strong, because they mainly hunted mamooths and other big game. Thats why whites are stringer but have less cardio.
>be autistic
>watched Jojo bizzare adventures
>Compared myself to the Joestars who are all genetically 6'5 and will built at age 17
>Be age 20 weighing 210lb of pure lard
>Autisic me found this to be an excuse to work out
>started lurking Jow Forums
>lower my self-esteem, in which drived me to go full Auschwitz
>Fast and bro-split
>Always trying to leave humanity behind
>You are here
>breakup 6 years ago from a 6 years relation
>that relation actually destroyed me and the breakup left me useless skinny depressed manlet
>started some light lifting with new roomate
>actually enjoyed results but decided to start muay thai and just add some lifting as complementary
>meet (ex)gf, we move in a new town with new jobs.
>my knees start to dislike muaythai (have a long time knee injury that cannot be repaired)
>start lifting again as it is less problematic for the knee at my level
>breakup with ex, am devastated.
>engage more seriously into lifting just to avoid coming back home
>actually enjoying progression and at least I can still look at myself in the mirror
>decide to invest a bit
Sadly several events have drained a lot of time and energy lately, so it's been 1 month I did not go to the gym.
Today is the day I go back! I don't care if I need to deload, I know I'll be back to working weight soon.
>learn Italian in highschool
>teacher tells me that Italians invented fascism not the Germans
>decide to read the doctrine of fascism
>Fascism denies the materialistic conception of happiness as a possibility, and abandons it to the economists of the mid-eighteenth century.
>Fascism denies the equation: well-being = happiness, which sees in men mere animals, content when they can feed and fatten, thus reducing them to a vegetative existence pure and simple.
>The Fascist accepts and loves life; he rejects and despises suicide as cowardly.
>Life as he understands it means duty, elevation, conquest; life must be lofty and full, it must be lived for oneself but above all for others, both near bye and far off, present and future
>figures it makes sense
>decide to get in shape and start lifting
>adopted by 6'1 200 lb bearded alpha dad
>lanklet my whole life
>He calls me "Bones" as a nickname
>Grandma always calls me "tall drink of water"
>Join the Marines thinking they'll make me big
>Still doesn't happen
>Visit my fiance's family and they all comment on how skinny I am
>Make a decision to turn my will and life over to the gods of gains
Yeah that’s how it went for me too user
This 200%, from first to last word. The staring at the mirror part, the thought process, fucking everything what happened to me. Also have hard time with discipline but remembering how better I feel when I'm lifting keeps me to push through hard days. Great post
yet not lifting but planing to.
>be skinny and tall
>love jeans
>cannot find jeans my size
>everything looks baggy on me
>people tell me that i look like a junky
>iknowthat.desu
>wear everything casul af just to avoid being judged
>decided 3 weeks ago to gain some weight
>keeping track of calories
>doing some cardio/basic training
>was in sport since 7 so i know routine
>last week was so overbook at job so i skiped one week
>get motivation from Jow Forums
Thanks lads
Fucken zeez prah
checked and blessed
youre going to make it
Degenerate
Started at 86kg too. Now at 73. Took me way longer to go from 77 to 73 than 86 to 77. Just hang on bro, don't loose your motivation. It's all worth it in the end!
Gf does a lot of exercise, I felt somewhat inspired, start running in the morning before work, fall in love with it, see progress and I'm loving it, winter comes and getting up in the dark mornings when it's freezing puts me off, joined a gym, treadmill after work along with some weights since they're there, still mostly run, but quite enjoying weights, even though i don't really know what to do, summer comes again, quit gym membership to run outside again, buy weights for home to continue doing weights, get a punching bag for cardio if i stay in, run less, kind of miss running in the evening on a treadmill, end of summer/autumn stop exercising as much, think fuck, have to sort this out, join a different nicer gym, more serious on weights this time, injure my knee, which is still not right, so can't do anything with my legs, just doing upper body weights
TL;DR gf inspired me to stay exercising, running inspired me to lift
> get into difficult relationship with childhood friend
> oh boy, I'm not prepared for this
> ate like shit, stress and being a pudding vegetarian made me bloat up to 190lbs
> relationship rapidly degrading
> towards the end make decision to loose weight
> started jogging
> breakup. get blocked on all channels.
> depression ensues
> spiral of self-hate
> decide to get out of this as a better man
> fix diet and start weight-training with dumbbells at home for 2 months
> join gym, takes me 5 attempts that I bailed on previously
> every workout session works wonders for my mental-health. this is the only thing that keeps depression at bay.
> now 3 months in gym and down to 160lbs @ 12% bf
> starting my leanbulk soon
> regained happiness, depression is gone
> we're all gonna make it!
YOU'RE gonna make it!!
Boredom, mostly.
>at work
>Talking with at coworker
>Says she lifts
That's all it took. I felt extremely emasculated
Randomly came across a instagram belonging to an old crush from school.
Shes now a full on death by snu snu wheyfu and looks amazing. So i decided to sort myself out and get in shape and ask her out.
Simple as that.
Ok
> be me
> heavy all my life
> can't rember the last time I wasn't 85-90kgs
> cubby fuck all of high school
> depression sets in cause I can't look at myself in the mirror thinking there is something wrong with me
> I'm also a complete cunt so it didn't help my likability
> leave high school 1/4 into last year
> start training to be a chef. Life is good.
> people start noticing my weight. 91 kgs. FUCK.jpg
I've attempted to lose weight all of HS but nothing ever happened. But this time it felt different
> eat right. Start training at home. Lose about five kgs after three months.
>ok let's do it
> go to gym. Be harder on myself. And run run run. Lose 13 kgs in two months.
> people have complimented me. One 8/10 girl I worked with looked me up and down.
I finally fucking did it. Now I'm trying to get more muscle. Feels nice.
whats the qts instagram?
I saw this quote and it inspired me. Sure the picture is a bit cringe but the quote resonated with me so much I started lifting the week after
No problem man.
I learned to overcome the 'negative' in my life and use it as fuel to better myself.
We can fucking do it!
My father was as good as absent in my childhood and an active detriment in my teen years, verbally and emotionally abusive towards my mother and siblings, eventually killing himself in my late teens. That fucked my up but freed me too, from there I realised that he wasn't a good father (dumb and obvious I know) so I set about learning what he should've taught me from a young age. This lead me to philosophy, the particular book that resonated with me was meditation, it changed my mindset entirely. Broke up with my gf of 4 years because I didn't believe she'd be a good mother to my children and I also found Jow Forums and Jow Forums which helped form who I am today, been lifting, running and swimming ever since.
I was tired of being a little twig pussy. So i became a big thick pussy
>be depressed in uni
>stop going to lectures
>stop seeing people
>eventually stop getting out of bed, except to eat scraps if I'm nearly passing out from hunger
>thisisfine.jpeg
>tell family what's happening after a few months of this
>defer from uni, get a job, start talking to friends again
>everythingsgonnabeok.webm
>go out drinking with pals at house party
>get really drunk
>start freaking out and having bad thoughts
>coulda kms myself if things had gone different
>hyperventilating
>shaking
>puke
>best friend holding my hands telling me to breathe
>told me the next morning I kept saying "it's coming back it's coming back"
>whythefuckdididothis.cringe
>2 Jow Forums best friends take me to gym, help me turn my life around
1 year later, I'm bigger than them, I'm back in uni and top of my class, confidence has increased exponentially, lost my v card, have a gf now, part time job, playing vidya WAY less, and my life is full of meaning.
I'm happier than ever, and I'm excited to see what life throws my way because I know I'm gonna mske it. We all are!!!
Pathetic- not going to make it
One day I realized how emaciated I looked. I did some googling, used a BMI calculator and discovered mine was like 17.8.
Playing around with it, I noticed I could weigh 20kg more and I still would be within healthy BMI range.
Decided then to stop skipping meals like a retard, and ~6months later joined a gym with some friends.
>be 17 yrs old me.
>Used to be scared of going to the gym because I wanted to keep an intellectual appearance and feared muscles will make people think I'm stupid.
>Parents had to force me to start going to the gym.
>Did only bike cardio so I can read books while in gym.
>One day decide to try and start lifting on machines (too embassed to visit freeweights section).
>Some months pass, and I start to see deffinition in my wrist.
>New found confidence, I decided to start putting time into lifting, visited the freeweights exclusively in the gym.
>As I kept lifting, started to read and research about lifts and what targets what muscles.
>No longer care what others think. I was a retarded fag before, and I knew it deep down inside. Do not regret starting to lift.
Funny thing is, my mom really didn't want me to start lifting. She just wanted me to do cardio. It's been about two years and she still gives me trouble for weightlifting. Says I'm too short and will look like a square if I put on muscle.
this
that was the last drop for me
I worked and smoked weed every day all summer and lost all muscle/fat I have, became very skinny.
My gymnastics teacher saw and usually he'd go
>yea you're strong yea
because I used to be athletic but this time he was about to say the usual but then remained silent and I noticed it.
Another instance was a girl I was with, we were talking and she wanted to give an example of a big guy, but looked at me in disappointment.
This was 2x worse because I didn't lift as a kid but would be considered most muscular in class because of doing sports (#1 in pushups, abs, etc.. in class). So to go from that to skinny faggot fuck was terrible
>It was hard, but i lose a lot of kilos in only two months, i was 86 kg, now i'm 77 kg
It's not only, thats a good progress, can't say so for myself. Went from 94 to 70 in two months, starving myself. Now im a skinnyfat fag that cannot make a breakthrough in neither the fat loss or making gains
>>It was hard, but i lose a lot of kilos in only two months, i was 86 kg, now i'm 77 kg
>It's not only, thats a good progress
Oh im retarded ignore that
>be me
>be a loser
>be depressed
>be anxious
>be suicidal
>be going to gym
>be better
>be alive
easy peasy