Why do you lift?

[GagGod]

vagina, which makes me feel good

[transformation2]

i wanna look good, get bitches without having to try, be healthy and it's a fun hobby.

[marcoecon]

for competition, for myself cause i love the sport, i am an aggressive, impulsive person, so weight training is a good way for me to release everything at the gym. N to show all the people not to gimme **** no more when i look bigger n better than u.

[zoot494]

Hyperplasia? Doesnt exist in humans.

Lol I really want to put that in my sig now. Just as a trademark of intelligence.

[DDon1996]

Lol I really want to put that in my sig now. Just as a trademark of intelligence.

I thought about sigging it, but then I remember that 98% of this section doesn't even know the world hyperplasia in the first place, so it would be pointless.

[Vinsanity32]

Because I love it.

[SSMGP]

I do it because every time I leave the gym, I feel like a new man! The pump/shredding my muscles is like a natural high for me. Never gets old.

[Kirra]

http://www.mensjournal.com/everythin...ness-is-a-lie/

I’ll admit this begs a few questions, mostly about how pure strength makes anybody healthier, or helps in a given sport. There’s the predictable answer about how numerous studies recommend resistance training for the maintenance of bone density and muscle mass and even for heart-health benefits equal to cardiovascular exercise, how even famous big-wave surfers have begun lifting like this, and how barbells have become de rigueur on the pro-tennis circuit. But there’s an even better reason to build pure strength. I’ve come to believe that men don’t go to gyms just to avoid heart disease or support our weekend sports. It’s worth getting strong because we go to gyms in large part to maintain a little goddamned self-respect, and to blow off steam, and to insist, against all odds, that we do remain fiercely vital physical beings. And trust me, there’s nothing like watching your dead lift skyrocket to make you feel vital. It’s the happy exhaustion, the sense of hard work well done, with a clear purpose; it’s the rush of seeing your body change, fat turning into lean mass.

That.

[jackhoff87]

I use it as something to focus on as well as stress relief. When I go into the gym everything else stays at the door, my gym is my haven i consider it scared. All your energy is then focused to developing and improving yourself. Motivation comes from the need to be perfect, that need to be not just good but be the very best you can be.

Something about bodybuilding that separates it from the rest of my hobbies. I loving playing music, and cooking (no homo) football etc. But the drive I have for bodybuilding is un-explainable.

To sum up, I lift to achieve excellence.

[COBBER]

Lifting is my meditation. Good to be inside my own head and focus on something.

[ChiseledCactus]

I lift because I want to improve. I want to always become better. Being extremely overweight before, I was never really motivated. Now I want to just get better. I do not lift to get girls, though that is a nice bonus. There is nber anything better than lifting that heavier weight, knowing this is what you worked for; this is what you earned.

I only had one class this semester, and it was only an interim class, so having a lot of free time can be hard. I hate not being productive. Fours hours at the gym is normal. So, I guess lifting, great health, and constant improvement, is why I lift.

[beardymcbeard]

pretty much this

don't really have a goal anymore
I don't care about lifting for men/women
i don't care about strength


I just want to see how big i'll get just for shiits n giggles

wtf dude, I thought you lifted for the guys??







I lift because:
-Its fun
-To compete in bbing in the future
-Set a PLing record, for fun and to put on my resume lulz
-Walk the walk as a personal trainer
-Improve body composition, and look better
-Only sport I'm (semi) good at

[Wolf-Baron]

wtf dude, I thought you lifted for the guys??







I lift because:
-Its fun
-To compete in bbing in the future
-Set a PLing record, for fun and to put on my resume lulz
-Walk the walk as a personal trainer
-Improve body composition, and look better
-Only sport I'm (semi) good at

i used to...

But then I fell in love with you



wat

[beardymcbeard]

i used to...

But then I fell in love with you



wat

Shucks.

[paisley3101]

It makes me feel better about myself.

this,

sometimes feeling insecure or anything then just think, i'm stronger than 95% of the people here, woo!

[buzmax]

I'm 17, weigh 145 lbs and can:
bench 165
Squat 253
Deads 264

there aren't any people my age at size at the gym so i have nothing to base my personal standards on, so are my weights good or bad?

thanks

[NZbodybuilding]

to become an IFBB pro and win the 202 at the Olympia

lol yor already 200 lbs and look lean..i dout you could get bigger nuf unda 200 lbs

u mad

^^ weak

[NSwrestler]

Well to keep me strong for wrestling

but

the reason i got into it is because this one girl who i loved cheated on me and i wanted to make her think "why the **** did i cheat on him"

few months after i started shes wanted me back because how i changed

i told her to **** off

[guitargoalie]

for myself, at first i was inspired by girls obv but now its a whole different level than that, when things arnt going my way i usually look a few aspects of my life and judge a good week/day by those, the gym being one of them. If anything the gym's made me more self concious but that just drives me to look better, sure womenz on the side would be nice but id still be tryin to get huge regardless.

[Pettisx33]

I lift because it always puts me in a good mood, seeing your body adapt to different weights/sizes is also very interesting. You have to do things others wont, so you can achieve what others dont.

[bishopbeater]

relieves stess, puts me in a good mood, girl likes it, get stronger, get bigger, excel in sports, feel better about myself. and cuz im pretty much the only one in my family that is less than 20% bf other than my mom lulz

[CORY901]

curls for the gurls

tris for the guys

[ChevyRiderZ28]

lmao


i lift because i love to. even tho im not that strong, i still work out every day. out of my 4 classes in school 2 of them are weight training which means i work out for about 3 and 1/2 hours every day. i love it and i keep getting good results so it just makes me want to lift more and more.

Holy Shiit dude that is not good! You need to do at most 1 1/2 hr a day workout.

[Jared509]

To compete someday

[Jkwan]

I lift, bcus
-when i walk out the gym, i feel like a million bucks.
-increases my self-discipline toward school nd life goals as well
-Having a better body physique than 80% of ppl my age just makes me smile =) lol
-Great hobby, better than watching tv ( still watch tv in gym between sets =)
-self-image believe it or not, can help you getting a new job...if i looked frail nd skinny, i wud look younger nd i wudnt get offered as many jobs as people offer me today.(personality is a part of it)
-too much energy as a teenager sucks sometimes....why not push weight with it! ahhh
-compliments are great and girl attention is a bonus

[cocoaustin]

first i did it because of wrestling now i do it because its fun

[youngun91]

Because theres nothing more exciting than picking up heavy **** and putting it back down again

[MooseLaddin]

I started out lifting when I fractured my heel and was in a walking boot for 3 months and couldn't have any other form of excercise basically. I played soccer on the college team at the time of the injury so I was really serious about soccer but then found a liking for upperbody weight lifting (I had been doing lower body for years as a soccer player). Anyway once I began to get cuts and really defined and gain strength because of the lifting on the field (would never get pushed off the ball, would power bigger guys that I never could before) I basically got addicted to lifting and couldn't imagine going back to my weak non-cut and toned upperbody.

[AcquireAEST]

at the basic level, to acquire aesthetics and feel good. huge happiness boost from going to a fatty to around 10%

[Metallicles]

To get pussy

Fail. The best way to do that is to be scrawny as a twig.