What is your "WHY"?

[Push50]

Simply put, I was fat.

What really put me over the edge, my parents got the anti-fat stomach surgery, the name is escaping me, but they basically took the easy way out. That just kind of pissed me off, and I got to work. Then it turned into what it is now.

The hard road is for leaders that want to push past what others have done before. While the easy road is for followers that want to quickly reach assumed success, with no real knowledge of how to get there.
Ryan Mathias

Well done brother. No one truly knows our struggles but us. Stay strong push hard and over come. Great choice and I hope that it is paying off.

 

[Push50]

I'm newer to being enhanced than most, plan on blasting and cruising, watching my health along the way, and making a life long commitment to progress. I think the "why?" Is an important question we should ask ourselves in many avenues of life.
My "why?" Is because making progress in the gym and my body gives me so much motivation and purpose that carries over to other aspects in my life.
I've been void of motivation, happiness, and direction much of my life. I really turned my life around a little over two years ago, I was making progress in some aspects a year prior to that after my second stint in rehab, but it wasn't until I completely cut the drugs out of my life that I was able to find some semblance of happiness.
There was still something lacking though, passion. I had no hobbies and very vague goals, and although I was doing better than ever before, I was lacking fulfillment.
As JesterBOB said, this lifestyle is my salvation.

Great job. Keep up the hard work and you can reach what ever heights you desire.

 

[Push50]

Was always a shorter guy 5”8 and always very dense and well built.

Never really lifted much in my youth because baseball was the only sport I played. My journey started in my early 30’s.

As I got older I went from being a short big framed guy to a short fatty. By 32 I Was almost 260 at just 5”8. Started to lift because I couldn’t tolerate what I looked like and hated cardio. I felt good after lifting. I felt good about myself. We can all say short and round is not ideal for ladies preferences which only weighed on my self confidence more as a charming face only matters so much.


My diet stayed the same, but I was seeing progress. As more progress came the more I wanted. Shifted diet and was getting a lot of attention from people telling me my journey inspired them. The wife seemed very receptive of the changes as did others which was a perk. But more than anything it changed my entire life for the better.

If 3 years ago you could’ve told me I could look like I do today I would’ve said no way and I would be happy. But as time has gone on the urge to look better and be stronger has only gotten worse.

More than anything lifting taught me dedication and discipline. Currently 197 @ around 22%BF and about to start my first cycle in the next week. Surprisingly no loose skin yet.

The day you lift you’re forever small, this saying resonates with me.





Currently about

10 different ways anyone can inspire those around them:​

1. Build up those around you
2. Be enthusiastic
3. Have integrity
4. Be empathetic
5. Maintain a positive outlook
6. Practice gratitude
7. Stand your ground
8. Set clear goals and strive to achieve them
9. Have passion
10. Challenge them (Maggie wooll)

I am sure that you have inspired more people that you realize brother. Great job

 

[JuiceJohn]

I was raised in a military family, and my dad was a real piece of work, so my mom and grandparents did most of the raising. They always stressed the importance of being fit and eating healthy. As I got older, I realized that keeping up my personal standards was important for my career choices. But honestly, now that I'm getting older, I also care about how I look. I don't want to see a flabby, unappealing body when I look in the mirror. My wife doesn't really like it when I bulk up, but that's not why I do it. I do it for myself. It helps me feel comfortable in my own skin and boosts my confidence.

 

[Para_33]

Why are you into Bodybuilding?
Are you in it for the health benefits?
To live longer?
To provide inspiration to others?
To impress the ladies?

Everyone has a reason and every ones reason is different. There really isn’t a wrong or right answer to this question.

Additionally, since getting into bodybuilding, has it become a life style change for the better?
Has it increased your focus?
Performance outside of the gym?
Is your mental clarity more precise?
Have you become more disciplined?

What is your “WHY”

I will start this off. I originally got in to bodybuilding because my kids were getting to the age that I could see grand kinds in the future and I wanted to be there when they came into the world. Since then, I do it more for me than anyone else. But I do love the increased libido and the increased mental clarity that even running a TRT level of Testosterone provides. Additionally, it makes me feel great when someone does point out that I have inspired them to work towards a goal and get more fit and healthy.

I started bodybuilding mainly because I had the time to really focus and plan everything out and set my eyes on a target, which was just to invest myself fully into a new thing in my life that I wanted to try and master.

The reason I picked bodybuilding is a bit more unusual. maybe. But I was so small at 128lb 5’10” a hair over, I wanted to take ownership of having a strong body that I could then get strong that way with the right skill like martial art wise, I’d be able to have the say most likely over who gets to assert their will over another person looking to cause harm to myself or another innocent person. Also if shit hits the fan and the lights go out and there is no food, I’d rather be living in mayhem with a 220lb body than be 128lb, with minimal tissue to spare, unable to do a certain physical task, or even more morbid- I’d rather leave behind a 220lb meat bag for the people I’m with to be able to eat me in the event I died and needed to survive. I am aware how possibly egotistical and straight up weird that is. Lol

But also, just it’s fun to grow your muscle and see how freakin cool it looks to have wings for a back and delts that look like you’re wearing shoulder pads.

 

[Throwaway737679]

Hit a serious funk in life after cleaning up after the opiate run i took, didnt understand that it could cause permanent hpta damage. Started a cycle n found myself and some extra. Never cycle like hit anything higher that 350 mgs a week but it gives me the ability to live on a level i dont think i would be able too again with the level of damage i did to myself.
Now im after finding that combo of different hormones i can almost perpetually run just to get the most out of this n live the best i can since im pinning anyway.
Probably more than one of you reading this that can relate. God bless

 

[HB_22]

Why are you into Bodybuilding?
Are you in it for the health benefits?
To live longer?
To provide inspiration to others?
To impress the ladies?

I just love to train.

 

[AJDC]

As a lot of people who started in their teenage years, it was to impress the ladies.

After you start building muscle, you start to love training and can't go without it.

Once I started PED's, I started to love training hard af and I feel like I didn't train correctly if I don't go to true failure.

 

[Deleted member 127229]

I just want to be a sick fuckin kunt

 

[PandaParadox]

Want to be strong as an ox till the day I die.
Want to be the wall between ill intentions and my family.

That's about it.

This response is metal as fuck