Dean Destructo
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When I started puberty my dad bought an olympic set for me and Ironman's Guide to weightlifting. He bought my first creatine for me too. Did your dad get you started?
Did your dad get you in to lifting?
IronJulius
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no my dad never set foot in a gym or played any sports but he had a really nice build. actually he waterskied and worked on cars and trucks from like age 11 and was a construction worker after fighting in Vietnam. i bought my kids Olympic weight set and now they just go to the gym with me unless they had workouts at school
Dean Destructo
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My family was competitive in collegiate style wrestling and football and a lot of that was what influenced the weightlifting and I found that I enjoyed lifting more than the others.
trekrider215
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My dad used to be an amateuer bodybuilder and have his own home gym. That shit was decked out. He taught me how to bench press with the EZ curl bar when i was like 8 years old. He taught me everything at a very young age because we had mostly everything a full gym had. I trained off and on with the equipment growing up. It was oretty awesome.
Nope. My dad was truly the greatest dad on the planet, RIP, but never worked out a day in his life. He was in great shape and had a solid build all the same. I worked construction starting at the age of 12. By 14 I had people pulling over to the job site asking me to compete in their bodybuilding shows, but it was all from lifting lumber and loading trucks. I didn't start lifting weights until I was 17, and then I exploded thanks to the solid foundation I had under my belt.
I'll give my dad credit for almost everything great that happened in my life, but this part I did on my own.
I'll give my dad credit for almost everything great that happened in my life, but this part I did on my own.
Nah, Sports got me into bodybuilding. But I do remember my dad saying to me get a job, dont worry about college , i was only good in highschool cause i came from a "1 horse town" i didnt even know what the fuck that meant at first lol, then when i even got a football scholorship he still thought i should learn a trade with hands instead. He was a selfish prick, married 6 or 7 times, never around. My dad seen me doing pushups one day when visiting, and told me not to bother that "Chest Genes" arent in our family lmao, fucking guy was lame
so you guys with good memories of your dads, well thats awsome!
so you guys with good memories of your dads, well thats awsome!
Got one of those plastic lead powder filled weight sets and the same Arnold book, same age. Decided then that I wanted to look like Arnold.
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Man if that won't make you a great dad one day, then I don't know what will. Funny how something good or bad can come from a negative experience. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.
For what it's worth, my dad was so freaking amazing that I'd be glad to share some of him with you. From now on we can have the same dad.
Man if that won't make you a great dad one day, then I don't know what will. Funny how something good or bad can come from a negative experience. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.
For what it's worth, my dad was so freaking amazing that I'd be glad to share some of him with you. From now on we can have the same dad.
Iron Game
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Yeah I really have to stretch pretty hard to give "them, step & biological " a good word. They did the best they could, lol. That's a long story for a different forum. Haha
This is kind of a funny topic for me, because it's turned out the other way around!
My dad was always athletic: played lacrosse and ran track in college, and for most of my life he continued with running. But besides a little bit of strength training with the lacrosse team, he never did any weight lifting.
I'm not sure when he dropped the running, but it was quite a few years ago, now. So at 77 years old, he decided he wasn't happy with his physical condition and started asking me what kind of weight lifting exercises he should do. I gave him a few pointers and as a Christmas gift, got him two Skype appointments with my wife's trainer. He ended up hiring her on a regular basis, twice a week, and trains at my house in my well equipped home gym! Did I mention that he's 77?? Actually, he'll be 78 in a few weeks.
I spent a day last week installing a rubber mat floor and assembling his dumbbell rack in his new gym area in the basement at his house!
My dad was always athletic: played lacrosse and ran track in college, and for most of my life he continued with running. But besides a little bit of strength training with the lacrosse team, he never did any weight lifting.
I'm not sure when he dropped the running, but it was quite a few years ago, now. So at 77 years old, he decided he wasn't happy with his physical condition and started asking me what kind of weight lifting exercises he should do. I gave him a few pointers and as a Christmas gift, got him two Skype appointments with my wife's trainer. He ended up hiring her on a regular basis, twice a week, and trains at my house in my well equipped home gym! Did I mention that he's 77?? Actually, he'll be 78 in a few weeks.
I spent a day last week installing a rubber mat floor and assembling his dumbbell rack in his new gym area in the basement at his house!
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Rocco1943
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I go back a little further than most of you, but my motivation was ads in the back of most comic books when I was a kid. It was the classic Charles Atlas ad with the skinny guy at the beach with his girlfriend and the big bully kicks sand in his face and then old Charles says to send him some money and he will show you how to build those big guns and kick the bullly's ass. I think they were in every comic book printed back then.
Dean Destructo
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I actually have some of those comics lol. I know exactly which ads you are talking about.
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