Whats your main motivation for Bodybuilding?

[saturn1]

I started lifting when I was 16 because I was scrawny. So initially I wanted to get big to feel good about myself.

After getting older I really got hooked on the idea that I could alter my chemical ( hormonal) makeup to increase my ability.

Now I do it because I really like the lifestyle. The discipline carries over into all parts of life. You can never beat the iron so I remain humble in the constant battle to get better personally.

My main motivation has always been the attention from the ladies. I love the ladies and the ladies love me. I have the lifestyle to thank for making my fantasies come true. :thumbsup: :arcade:

I work with people that compete and they totally live for being the best on stage. Whats your motivation?

 

[h8tr3d]

my main reason is for insecurities.....ex: small penis, ugly, short, etc

 

[Presser]

I guess i started lifting weights in 9th grade for football, always been a gifted athlete and Highschool lifting was madatory or u couldnt play football come fall if u didnt lift enough summer sessions, so for me i had to lift to play football, but then i noticed how my body responded to the weights, I guess for me I got serious with bodybuilding when I knew i didnt have anything else left, another words football was my main sport and I recieved a full scholorship to Boston College, lost my scholorship came home tryed doing the NFL walk on thing for the Eagles at Villanova sessions, that didnt work out,lol, so all i had left was weight lifting.

I was always one of the best at what i did, so i noticed at the gym i wasnt shit in terms of bodybuilding, so for me i guess i had to try to be the best in the gym and trained hard and started supplements, then that wasnt enough and decided to compete, enjoyed the few shows i did, but knew I could never go pro but realy loved the sport of bodybuilding and wanted to be a part of it somehow forever, so 10 years ago in 1999 i decided to start MuscleChemistry2k , then thankfully modified it to just MuscleChemistry.com and here I am doing what i love every day, meeting new poeple every day online and helping teach new guys what they need to be taught and always looking to keep learning myself

 

[Presser]

I guess i started lifting weights in 9th grade for football, always been a gifted athlete and Highschool lifting was madatory or u couldnt play football come fall if u didnt lift enough summer sessions, so for me i had to lift to play football, but then i noticed how my body responded to the weights, I guess for me I got serious with bodybuilding when I knew i didnt have anything else left, another words football was my main sport and I recieved a full scholorship to Boston College, lost my scholorship came home tryed doing the NFL walk on thing for the Eagles at Villanova sessions, that didnt work out,lol, so all i had left was weight lifting.

I was always one of the best at what i did, so i noticed at the gym i wasnt shit in terms of bodybuilding, so for me i guess i had to try to be the best in the gym and trained hard and started supplements, then that wasnt enough and decided to compete, enjoyed the few shows i did, but knew I could never go pro but realy loved the sport of bodybuilding and wanted to be a part of it somehow forever, so 10 years ago in 1999 i decided to start MuscleChemistry2k , then thankfully modified it to just MuscleChemistry.com and here I am doing what i love every day, meeting new poeple every day online and helping teach new guys what they need to be taught and always looking to keep learning myself

For the record i wanted to state this no matter how egotistical it might sound, i knew right away i would never go pro in bodybuilding or be a top rated national competitor and not because i didnt have it geneticly, but because i didnt have what it took to eat how i would have to to pack on the size, thats the main reason i personaly think, i know it sounds egocentric or egomaniacle to say i think i have it geneticly,lol, but i think i do or did, i just could never eat the way i needed to

 

[saudades]

When I was about 10 years old, my dad got a copy of Arnold's book, Education of a Bodybuilder. When I read that, I thought to myself that I wanted to look like Arnold. I grew up very skinny, but I had that book in the back of my mind. I only got into working out consistently when I got into high school. They had weightlifting classes and a weight room so I took that every year all year long. The only thing that was hard was I didn't have access to the weights during the summer break. That didn't matter anyway since I never gained any weight though I became pretty strong. I was self-conscious of myself and wanted to look better so I kept trying to lift weights. I remember an upsetting time when I became friends with another kid who moved into my neighborhood, and I had him start working out with me with the small weight set we had in the basement. I remember after about three weeks he was starting to look bigger when I hadn't grown practically at all, and I had been working out on this set of weights far longer than he had. It made me quit working out with him because I was jealous that he was getting results and I wasn't. As I look back at it, I should have seen that something was wrong. After a while, I picked up weightlifting again when I went to college because I still wanted to build myself up so I wasn't so scrawny. Even then, I still didn't gain weight until a lot later after I turned 29 and really forced myself to eat a lot. Only after I was diagnosed with low T after I turned 30 and got married did I finally start to reach my goal.

 

[Pharm_Fed]

I started lifting in my late teens for general health, self esteem boost, healthy body image, etc. Put on a little size and some strength and kind of got lazy about it and quit for a while. It seemed like life was just to hectic to find time for it. I lost all the size and strength I gained. Then I got serious about it again and have been much stricter with myself especially lately. My weak spot has always been the diet part. It's not hard to me to make myself go to the gym when I'm tired, or sick, or whatever. I actually really enjoy the actual lifting part. But I LOVE food. I love good food, and lots of it. It's so hard for me to eat bland, tasteless, boring food all the time. Now that I force myself to eat right, one of the biggest reasons I look forward to Saturday is for a cheat meal!! lol. I don't have the desire to compete, but want to see how far I can push myself, just for my own sake.

 

[Presser]

bump good read

 

[nuknuk]

For the record i wanted to state this no matter how egotistical it might sound, i knew right away i would never go pro in bodybuilding or be a top rated national competitor and not because i didnt have it geneticly, but because i didnt have what it took to eat how i would have to to pack on the size, thats the main reason i personaly think, i know it sounds egocentric or egomaniacle to say i think i have it geneticly,lol, but i think i do or did, i just could never eat the way i needed to

Good point. It is a full time job to eat the same shit and alot of it everyday.

 

[Spiderman]

I remember seeing Lee Haney when I was a little kid in one of the bodybuilding magazines - and I thought I'd love to look like that guy. I started working out in my garage and my parents thought that I was going to hurt myself screaming all of the time out there so they got rid of the weights. They encouraged me to pick up tennis, so I did. Played through college and then picked up weights again when I was 22. Got serious for awhile, then other things in life got in the way like jobs, moving, wife, kids, etc... But every time I walked away I always missed it. Decided to get serious about it about 2 years ago and put on a lot of my weight during that year. Then had to lay off again due to school and health problems. I keep working out because of the discipline that plays over into everything else when I'm doing it, as well as the way it makes me feel. There is nothing else that comes close to the feeling you get when you are growing, throwing up more weight every week, and make progress. I have tried all kinds of things in the past to get that feeling; drugs, the runner's high, money...and nothing comes anywhere close to it. And that's what keeps me coming back