Why do you bodybuild?

[Dusty Hanshaw]

I saw this thread started on another forum and it made me curious as to why people on this board became bodybuilders. What is it about the sport that made you decide to change your entire life? I'm sure that a lot of answers will be similar but it"s still interesting to see what fuels the fire for others.

By the way this thread also includes figure women, fitness, and people who have made BBing part of there life without competing.

 

[rl3355]

I bodybuild to look and feel a certain way...to be strong, plus I always wanted to look like the comic book guys.

 

[HUTCH]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm in it for the money.

I think it is just pretty amazing that for the most part you can decide on how you want to look...Its pretty cut and dry if you wanna have a body that looks like this then you gotta do all of this...Plus just the fact that you change your body so drastically still intrigues me..

 

[BigWilly]

I'm a competitive person, after sports ended for me...that was gone. So I started working out just to remain active, be healthy, and look good. After a while as I developed my physique a little bit and after people kept telling me to compete, I realized I had decent genetics so bodybuilding was a good fit for me. I could get back into being competitive and active. In the meantime, it really helped develop myself on a personal level. Kept me away from the bars and drinking. Kept me focused and in turn my professional career improved and my life came together more and more.

I could get into it on a deeper level, but that's it in a nutshell.

BW

 

[AWN2004]

I was very involved in sports my whole like and being in the gym was a big part of that. I ended up getting a job on the weekends watching a little hole in the wall gym so I could work out there for free. I ended up getting some positive feedback from people that trained there asking me about competing but to be honest I didn't want to compete. It just didn't interest me to get on stage and pose. I found out though after training seriously for a little while how much my life was enriched by bodybuilding. I enjoy seeing changes and being able to accomplish goals along the way. I even enjoy dieting to a certain degree. I think you really find out a lot about yourself when you compete. Having wrestled my whole life, I was used to having only to answer to myself when I lost or something went wrong. I think the two sports parallel each other so the transition wasnt such a shock. Just the feeling of accomplishment from putting effort, hard work, and determination into something is very rewarding and then being able to walk around and display that is just icing on the cake. Actually the person that started this thread had a big influence on talking me into competing and I really thank him for that because it truely has made a difference in my life.

 

[gooey]

same story...

I consider myself highly competitive in many situations. When high school sports ended I had nothing to place my competitive spirit into. I drank, partied and got fat and small at the same time. I wasnt happy with myself and much was missing. I remember as a kid being fascinated with muscle. I redrew comic book characters like wolverine, superman, etc cause they were too small. Loved muscle characters like He-Man, The Incredible Hulk. I was always inspired or gravitated towards muscle. I woke up one morning with a huge jack and coke hangover and said to myself that was it this lifestyle ends. I bought some creatine started taking my workouts more seriously and started listening and learning. My mentors brought me in the circle and thought I may do well in a BBing show. I started seriously hitn the weights and food in '99 and did my 1st show in 2000. And after all these yrs I still conside myself fat and small... amazing

gooey

 

[terryd5150]

1. Well, I'm ugly as shit and have an extremely small penis, so I had to have something else going for me.



2. I did the sports thing, too. I figured out during that time that I couldn't count on the people around me to be successful, so I gravitated toward BB where MY hard work, MY effort, and MY sacrifices all pay off rather well.

But probably it all goes back to #1.

 

[gooey]

hahaha

1. Well, I'm ugly as shit and have an extremely small penis

well I got u beat on that.... Im also chubby... sorry ur not allowed n this club

goo

 

[littlemack]

Well....I consider myself a good looking chap...but you guys are ugly, bald, fat, and have small penis's...and your stealing the girls!!!!

Had to do something! hahahahaha

 

[gfactor]

I love sports but I hate coaches. Bodybuilding you are your own coach and when you ask for a trainer... You know what to expect and you do it. I love seeing progress in my physique because its a 24/7 thing and to me the majority of bodybuilding for me lowers my stress.

 

[bulldog21]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm in it for the money.

I don't know about you but I do it all for the nooky....

 

[terryd5150]

What are you talking about???

well I got u beat on that.... Im also chubby... sorry ur not allowed n this club

goo

My last competion was the BASKIN ROBBINS INVITATIONAL!

 

[terryd5150]

Ya know...I didn't think about that.

...If I have a phobia in life, it's getting old. Not so much old in years but old as in weak or fragile...

But I fit into that category as well.

Good point, OTH.

 

[littlemack]

Yeah, yeah... you don't need to rub our noses in it Mr. Handsome

NO JOKE! We got bulldog over here who comes in looking like a supermodel when he wants.... Bastard! hahaha

 

[aw1218]

To prove a nerd could look good too

 

[Sampson]

I like most of you got into it because of the opposite sex, if you didnt list that as one of you reasons your lying. Since then it has been about self obsession and the urge to be better than the next guy!

 

[buselmo]

at the age of 22, i was skinny and going bald... i just thought that bald and skinny didn't look so good, but bald and big shoulders and traps was the shit... so i started bodybuilding... next thing you know, i was hooked. started out just wanting to look good, now i just want to win competitions and i really don't care what people think about my physique as long as the judges like it... too bad the judges don't like it though...
they will someday... yes, someday (in a peter griffin voice)

 

[cavemuscle]

Pretty much the same as everyone else, I bought some magz at 15 and something about the look told me this is what I wanted to be. Since then the sport has actually saved my life (a long story there), I may never be anything but the big fish in the small pond, but hey, I'll do it.

Brock

 

[thebrick]

I did it for me. I wanted to gain weight. I was painfully skinny and I wanted to look like those guys on the cover of the old MD. After I started and was getting results, I was just plain having a great time and I loved training. I was hooked. The attention and compliments were very nice too

Let me also add, as you put the years behind you, the differences in appearance for those who have taken care of their body vs. those who have not, become more and more apparent...... BIG TIME.

 

[bulldog21]

Yeah, yeah... you don't need to rub our noses in it Mr. Handsome

LOL.....If you call fat, greasy, and hairy me handsome you have got the wrong guy!!


In all seriousness I bodybuild like most.......It extended my competiative sports career and helped change a life that was falling apart from drugs and alcohol.....It really helped me get my life back on track.......