What's the real reason you lift? (REAL TALK)

[nopnnogn1]

And what's everybody's long term goal? Personally, I do it for aesthetics, but don't plan on competing or getting huge. Lately I've been getting the impression that most douchebags at the gym are trying so hard to have the so called "fitness lifestyle" which basically means that your life is nothing but the gym and you post lame shirtless selfies on IG everyday. Like it became a trend or something. I always wonder, What are all these Jeff Seid wannabes thinking? There's more to life than lifting weights.

[OffwhiteBrah]

[MatSalleh]

Because I dont want to be intimidated by bigger guys.

[Jayballer22]

so i can get big enough to workout with jeff seid

[truth223]

I got tired of looking and feeling like chit. Ive made progress but I still have a long way to go to get where I want to be. Lifting weights is easy. As long as youre on a decent plan and stick to it.

[tokelift]

I lift for men on the misk

Big sweaty aesthetic men

[SkinnyPhatBrah]

To not be a fat sack of crap like so many other office workers/schoolmates.

seriously, i am FAR from aesthetic (see username) but it staggers me how much better than the average for my age i am with only some effort.

[sweetneybrian]

Was skinny all my life and got tired of it.

[CoreMaster75]

It's just better all around, useful strength and better impression on people.

But the real reason I do it is so I can flex in the mirror and see the progress, that feeling though when you see years of hard work paying off. Still I agree, it's pretty pathetic when there's a massive body builder who's accomplished nothing else in life and just lifts all day while working a min wage job and living at home. Everything in moderation.

[Vitalero]

I will respect the SRS tag so here my reason why i started lifting
a few weeks after graduation, I found myself in possession of a gym membership, and while walking past the weight room on my way to the yoga studio I�d think to myself maybe I should at least know what all this stuff is even for? So I signed up for sessions with one of the health club�s personal trainers. It was one of the best decisions I�ve ever made, and not just because my trainer was awesome and totally body-positive. So to any of you trying to live up to your New Years resolutions, here�s my rationale for why the gym is actually awesome.

The thing about the gym is that, in a world that constantly frames women�s health around our need to get smaller, it�s the only place I�ve found where goals are all about increasing. As women, we are bombarded with the message that we are too big. We need to take up less space, to make the numbers on the scale go down, to measure our waists with fewer inches. We are told to shrink. To me, that is not health, that�s death. Making yourself lesser is just not an attitude I find appealing at all.

But at the gym, unless you�re focusing on decreasing what you see on the scale, the numbers go up, not down. Your muscles get bigger. The weights you lift get heavier. The time you can hold a plank gets longer. The number of exercises you can master get more numerous. It�s a way out of the thigh-gap, bikini-bridge, thinspiration death spiral.

It�s also a chance to move your body in new ways. I�m generally of the opinion that whatever level of activeness makes your body feel best is how active you should be, but what I�ve discovered from my time in the weight room is that diversity of movement is important to. Personally, my body�s happiest when I�m pretty active, which is why I�ve been a runner for a long time. But running, I�ve come to realize, is just one movement pattern. And being stuck in one movement pattern, whether it�s riding a bike or sitting at a desk, is boring. The gym gives me the chance to move in all kinds of different ways, which is awesome.

And most importantly, it all makes me feel good. It�s even � dare I say it � kind of fun. It�s fun to move in new ways. It�s fun to watch your progress. It�s fun looking at the 7.5 lb dumbbells I once used and thinking, �look how cute and tiny they are.� And then picking up the 25 lb dumbbells and feeling like a champ. And yeah, I�ve lost some weight and that�s nice and all, but feeling like you can do anything? That�s better than nice. Because at the end of the day, bodies aren�t for looking at, they�re for living in. So the real measure of how great they are is whether you can do everything you want in them. And the more stuff you can do, the more awesome that is. Because again, it�s about more not less.

[Battlefury]

To become a warrior and dominate all of my enemies.The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his
wives and daughters

[SpicyCurrie]

I just want to look good and feel good.

[BootneckBrah]

Strength and raw power to size ratio.

Hence natty for life.

Mans not lifting for aesthetics.


I started because had to get bigger to play a better tier of Rugby.

[iameden]

I lift for men on the misk

Big sweaty aesthetic men

[riikonenbe]

-goals 180+ at decent bf%
-theres no way im staying at 125 at 6foot again
-life infinite times better (energy, looks, etc)
-working out with music is very enjoyable (best part of my day)

[Kurial]

I started off with the same reason anyone does. Vanity,attention,etc.

No chance I'd look aesthetic natty so bodybuilding wouldn't get me attention. But the misc programmed in my head that maybe if I get a 1400+ total I'll get attention and not have to approach people to get it. I'm shy brahs, so I went with this.

So I became a power lifter and kept going and now we here going thru the motions waiting for attention. But when I'm lifting I just meditate and have these crazy thoughts so I can feel sane outside the gym.

Edit: the goal is to just compete in the IPF worlds. I really just want to inspire people who've been thru chit to just let themselves go at the gym and lift heavy. Das it. Mental gains thru the roof

[zeronotyethero]

To fill out a tshirt and not have it look like it's hanging off of a coat hanger.

[DrTynanol]

I started off with the same reason anyone does. Vanity,attention,etc.

No chance I'd look aesthetic natty so bodybuilding wouldn't get me attention. But the misc programmed in my head that maybe if I get a 1400+ total I'll get attention and not have to approach people to get it. I'm shy brahs, so I went with this.

So I became a power lifter and kept going and now we here going thru the motions waiting for attention. But when I'm lifting I just meditate and have these crazy thoughts so I can feel sane outside the gym.

Edit: the goal is to just compete in the IPF worlds. I really just want to inspire people who've been thru chit to just let themselves go at the gym and lift heavy. Das it. Mental gains thru the roof

is this a meme?

you can get big natty. You can also turn heads natty.

if youve been training for years and dont look like you lift, then you arnt lifting correctly.

you can get big natty, if you cant then thats ur own fault.

[DanVincer]

Because, even as a child, I imagined myself as a muscular man. Not a legitimate bodybuilder... but something around a lean 200 lbs at 6'0". I didn't exactly know *how* I was going to end up looking like that; I just assumed that I'd look like Steve Cook by the time I had finished puberty.

When puberty was done and I was still a lanky 18 year old... I had no respect for myself looking in the mirror. I didn't even particularly feel like a man.

5 years later... bigger and leaner than every guy I know and see, get plenty of female attention in day-to-day life that I never used to get and I can't go past a mirror without mirin myself.

If you really invest your time and effort into lifting (and I don't just mean doing a chitty split 3 times a week and getting your macros from cereal and gummy bears), then you will be a completely different person 5 years down the line. Both in terms of the way you look and your mentality towards life.

[BootneckBrah]

is this a meme?

you can get big natty. You can also turn heads natty.

if youve been training for years and dont look like you lift, then you arnt lifting correctly.

you can get big natty, if you cant then thats ur own fault.

This.

Will return to rep.


Disclaimer: probably

[JungleJenetics]

Break records, srs.

[Muzzlrpress]

Was skinny all my life and got tired of it.

this

[MassiveLoads420]

always wanted to be big and muscular, since i was a kid.

didnt start lifting until age 24 and i basically started cuz i was just bored and wanted to become good at something.

now i love it, its really fun breaking new PRs and watching your body get shredded over time.

[MentallyPhil]

Just wanted to look like Goku and achieve super saiyan

[Kurial]

is this a meme?

you can get big natty. You can also turn heads natty.

if youve been training for years and dont look like you lift, then you arnt lifting correctly.

you can get big natty, if you cant then thats ur own fault.

Not a meme brah. You can't really go places as a natty bodybuilder. But that's another story, I'm no story teller.

Besides its a much more enjoyable journey to work on strength.

[DotheDew563]

When I first started: low self esteem, hated feeling weak and looking like a bish, wanted to feel more productive with my free time

Right now:relieve stress, to be a positive role model for my nephew (who is overweight at 6 god damn years old), and probably slight self diagnosed depression

[Distance]

Simply to have a body I'm proud of and a productive way of challenging myself physically.

[Ausbody]

When I was 18 I got beat hard in a tennis match because I was so out of shape. I returned home so angry at myself I legit couldn't even look in the mirror. That night I started doing pushups, weeks later I joined a kickboxing gym, couple of years later I started lifting and I'm enjoying it. I hope I can keep doing this till I'm 60+

[Muzzlrpress]

Not a meme brah. You can't really go places as a natty bodybuilder. But that's another story, I'm no story teller.

Besides its a much more enjoyable journey to work on strength.

Go places? 95% of misc aren't trying to become actual competing bodybuilders. Sounds like that was your goal though.

[uMirinSon93]

I like the adrenaline of that last rep when you think your not gonna make it but you ignore the pain and still do it...but ofc i wouldnt do it if it did nothing to my body