Why we train

[Samuel Carey]

Its a simple question why do you do it? Why do you risk hurting your self to get the physique you want? Why do you spend and hour and ahalf maybe two hours grunting and groaning as you slap more weight and poud out more reps. For me it is simple. To evolve from what I once was to what I can be.

All through highschool I was the 140 lbs kid picked on for having big ears and a pigeon chest. Jocks and bullies pushed me around for not standing up for myself.

Then one day a good friend showed me who to properly work out and gave me advice on how to manage my diet. For Seven months now I have followed his advice and have gained 30 pounds and slowly beginning to get bigger. Lifting has taught me confidence and that I can strive to be unique.

It is all about disipline. Not saying oh I am not in the mood. Just the disipline to strive and keep working out. Slowly adding more weight, slowly changing routines, and becoming more and more confident in yourself as you get towards your goal. I have a long way to go but I am confident enought to make the journy. We as body builders from the pro's to guys like me just starting are like the Samurai. Disciplined and Dedicated.

"Life in every breath. That is bushido. The way of the samurai."
-Last Samurai

[GRUNT]

1. Im in the military and physical fitness is what will keep us alive in combat.

2. I have kids so i dont want to be the dad at the beach that is out of shape and my kids are embarrassed around me. Plus in the parent teacher conferences at school the MILF's are always staring (bad ego trip)

3. I do it for my own personal well being, looking good on the outside makes you feel better on the inside

4. I love to challenge myself

5. the pump...

So many reasons why but these are a few...

[brandon cutler]

I hate people that are bigger and stronger than me, so i keep at it to try and be the biggest.

Im in the Marines and lifting does help on your physical fitness tests when it comes to pullups, getting 20 is the max points (100), youd be suprised how many cant do it, at least in the 2 units ive been in. But i also hate all the running we do, usually 3 to 7 miles. my friends in the Marines say 'is this running going to interfere with your mass gains?' joking around with me, but im like yeah pretty much, ecspecially cause im going to have to wait another day for my leg workout. but id does help in combat, like said in the above post, being an 0311 GRUNT, we do need it, ecspecially in that hot Iraq weather. but im glad im getting out soon and dont have to go overseas anymore.

i like the way my body looks when i do get results.

i feel like shit if i dont work out, feel like ive wasted my time plus i dont really know what else to do if im not working out (ecspecially if im off work) besides eating, sleeping or reading about bodybuilding. plus if i dont workout ill measure my arms at least twice that day and get pissed that they havnt grown yet.

[super_size_me]

I do it to escape. I am also in the military, but I don'tneed to be big to do my job. I go to the gym because it is the one place where I know exactly what I'm there for. I forget about EVERYTHING else when I work out. It's just me, and the weights, that's it--constant struggle. I live for it these days.

[Rick T]

The PAIN! Lets me know I am alive.

[NJack2AF]

I do it because I used to be TINY and was tired of it. I weighed about 120 when I started working out 3 years ago. I could bench 65 lbs. Since then I have worked out on and off and got serious for a while, stopped, and now I'm back at it. I have gained 52 pounds since I started and can bench 225, I love the change. I love watching the gains come and looking back and seeing what I have done. It is an amazing feeling being in control of your body. I'm not really that worried about being huge or ripped for some chicks on the beach.. I'm not afraid of some big guy beating my ass.. I have just become consumed by the desire to be big. I guess I just want it because I like working for it and I love the pump, I can't stop now... I guess I hate it that I go to the gym and guys are further along than me, I know they have been doing it longer, but it is more incentive to go hardcore and pass them. I also like the feeling of rocking out to pantera while lifting some heavy ass weight and pushing myself like no other.. And the pump.. we all love the pump.. I look at myself in the mirror after hitting the weights and know that soon I will be looking like that all the time and be even bigger when pumped.. Also I fucking hate my arms... tiny. I'm gonna beat the shit out of those biceps tomorrow.

[Korg]

I dont care about getting the chicks, I dont give a fuck about being the largest dude in the gym, i dont pose, i dont compete, I dont flex or check myself out in the mirror at the gym. I dont feel the need for validation. I dont need someone telling me I have a great body. I dont compare myself to others. I dont care if people stare at me or not. Fuck that. I train because I love to train. Its the feeling I get after a ball crushing workout. The feeling I get when I increase the weight on an exercise and still pump out the same number of reps. The feeling I get when I gain 10lbs of muscle. The feeling I get when doing heavy ass deads, benching 300lbs for reps, or doing static squates.

I love to train, and thats that...

[blazin]

I lift to vent and get away from all the shit I deal with on a day to day basis... Working as a firefighter and Instructor, I would hope people would like to see someone in fairly decent shape to come help them (and yes some I work with think round is a perfect shape). I also want to be the biggest boy on the dept size wise with muscular definition. Any help anytime will be greatful to achieve those goals..


Peace


Stay low and let it go....

[IRONADDICT45]

ill speak for myself but im sure many animals feel the same...when im gasping for air on the ground and people stare and girls think ya look gross is when it just begins, fuck everything else but being true to yourself...the gym is the only place in the world im free besides church...when im in the most physical pain is when im feeling no pain from the outside world, when i can look at myself in the mirror as i do after im done lifting and nod my head in approval knowing i couldnt have given it anymore is why i lift, not for anyone else, not to get ass from some whore, not to intimidate metros at a club, but to prove to myself i can deal with all of my personal demons physically in the gym

[Iron4Life]

Because banging iron around and smashing plates is what I do, it has been ingrained in me since i was young. It becomes something that you dont just want to do, or need to do, its something you HAVE to do...Its a form of stability in life....trying to reach perfection, one rep at a time

IRON4LIFE

[Jaymafin]

i do it for me, not only for the pain but the pain i endure when the average person would have racked it or dropped it. for the respect i get and i give, for a release, to spend time with me, to challenge myself everyday and see the true fabric of who i am, because i hate people and i get to take it out on the weights and not them, i like the feeling of people staring at me while i am lifting knowing they either couldnt or are not willing to do what i do, for what the bar looks like when its covered in chalk and i walk away only so see some soccer mom and her personal trainer do bar squats and have chalk all over her. i could go on and on..........................

[bdaniel2239]

I do it for me, nuff said.....

[norrim1]

I used to think it was all about me, in many ways it is. Coming to this forvm has made me realize that I'm not alone in this quest and in a lot of ways I carry into the gym a lot of the things all of you have said. Keep it up, thanks.

[MetalAsh12]

to scare people...

[eblnyc]

i train as therapy. i starved myself off and on for 18 years which almost killed me. training is my savior without it i would be no more!

[Lowdown5]

I do it because just a short time ago I was a 440 pound alcoholic and addict who knew nothing different. And one day it dawned on me that I was shortchanging my family, I was a living corpse. So I worked out at home, changed my nutrition and finally got the balls to walk back into a gym. Been there ever since. I do it because if I don't I run the risk of turning back into that person that I hate. I can't do that. I do it because people here and in my life would lose respect for me if I don't, and more so, I would lose respect for myself.

[krazyassmexican]

my grandpa used to be on my ass
tellin me i had bad eatin habbits and that i was overweight

never listen to him
honest to G-d i was trying to holla at girls and they wouldnt even look at me

till one day i realized my grandpa was rite and that probably i was gonna die before him

i started going to the gym
(didnt change my eatin habbits at all)(changed them a few months ago and heading for a 16 week of cuttin)
but i was still loosing bodyfat

my grandpa is gone now
but thanks to him i am 78lbs leaner

girls look at my fat ass now
i am happy
i feel healthier

i am not done yet
one day i want to step into the stage
that day will be the shit

i just wish my grandpa was here to see a leaner william =(

[liftheavy13]

so one day i can be bigger than dad and show him who's boss

[jac71]

I just do it to improve the quality of my life. I love a challenge and this sport is a challenge both physical and mental

[Iron_Spirit]

I do it because I BELIEVE I'm hard of spirit, mind and heart... and if I am so, I must demonstrate it through my actions. By lifting some heavy ass weight when I'm all worn down.