Brehs, what started you on your fitness journey?

[The ADD]

Quick version:

Been a fat kid all my life.
Decided in my 30's to start exercising. Went from around 260 to 220. A year or so later wanted to push it further.
Went full retart and looked sick at 170 pound from all cardio. People were worried. Started lifting 2 years ago. Walking around at 200 now but I need to get get back in gear. Planning to ramp up after labor day.

 

[Adam3000]

Just gonna be fully honest, one day I was jerking off in the bathroom and I saw myself in the mirror out of the corner of my eye and saw titties poking out

At that point I stopped lying to myself that I was 'skinny' and realized that I was getting fat and my small frame was disguising it underneath my shirts. Skinny fat defined. Was approaching my 30's and had always had it in the back of my mind that one day I was going to flip to a new healthy lifestyle because I would kill myself before I was a broken down fat old man. So I set a reverse goal....I was gonna keep up my shyt lifestyle until the scale hit 190. At that point I was going to turn it around and never look back.

190 might not seem bad, but for me it was 25-30% BF. After my initial weight loss journey before I started lifting hard I did a BodPod scan and showed my lean body mass was 135 lbs, so 190 is

For the next 12 months I followed a small set of liftestyle changes. Didn't add any exercise other than the disc golf I was was often playing, but I dropped a pound, or two, or zero, per week just from making good choices.

At some point...I think around 170 lbs, I added in some bodyweight routines and jogging. At some other point, I added some noob machine-hopping in at my apartment gym facility.

All the while, I did mountains of research on health and fitness. I eventually transitioned to calorie counting and now have my weight controlled down to a science. Once I got serious about lifting weights I started to bloom and now I can take my shirt off with confidence for the first time in my entire life.

 

[Soundwave]

Your legs exercise numbers were ok, but your upper body exercise numbers on some good shyt .
Currently I'm at:
Squat: 275
Deadlift: 300
Overhead press: 125
Bench: 210

Although I have to deload on Squat this week because I failed on my last set for a second time. I took a break from squatting to fix a problem with my knees caving in. It turned out to be that my adductors were to weak. So I sat on the machine that the ladies use to get they thighs all tight and what not and pumped out 3 x 10 on max weight for a week. shyt was low key embarassing but I didn't give a fukk. Man I was sore than a muthafukka too and it hurt to move for 2 days but that shyt helped a lot. No more knee cave and I'm fine deloading if I can work back up with proper form I'm just gonna get bigger anyways .

Yeah, I think I maxed out there because I was getting burnt out on it. It was the first time I'd ever taken weight training seriously. Now I'm trying reverse pyramid training. Here's the regimen I'm on now:

http://www.fitocracy.com/knowledge/starting-guide-reverse-pyramid-training/

Yesterday I did 225 on the deadlifts at my peak

This Thursday I'll be attempting 235 on the squats

I swear I go between hating and loving squats

 

[savage_king90]

I was 5 foot 4 120 lbs in 7th grade and 5'7 135 lbs in 8th grade. I'm 6 foot 178 lbs now. That shyt dont stunt your growth that's a myth. You can start lifting anytime you start generating those pubertal levels of testosterone and see a result.

Maybe it did breh, im 6.2 210 now

 

[Scientific Playa]

in the genes

pop played football and mom ran track, her brother/uncle also played football and got invited to the Broncos camp after his collegiate career, his son/cousin made all district and got a ball (shuttlesworth)scholarship at uwash

 

[ThugLife]

Moved to a new city right before highschool and had like 0 friends the first few weeks.

Said fukk it and joined the after-school weightlifting club. Made friends who liked lifting and joined the football team and loved lifting ever since then.

Didn't really pay attention to diet and protein intake and carbs and bulking, etc. at that time so my body still looked kinda I just lifted weights.

It wasn't till I graduated last year and ballooned up to 210 pounds did I start taking diet more seriously. I learned all I could from the internet and the youtube guys and made more gains than I coulda ever imagined.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of this.

 

[jerniebert]

Used to wear dress pants when I worked in HR and started popping buttons on my pants. I've always been semi athletic, but always had a good metabolism until i hit 30. Then i needed to work at being in shape.

 

[Ghost Like Swayze]

awesome thread. University finished and I started working 9-5. Looked around me and saw nothing but flabby and sick middle aged people that lived for the binge drinking weekend. shyt scared me something serious.

 

[Software]

Maybe it did breh, im 6.2 210 now

My dad is 6'2 but my mom is 5'2. I'm glad I even reached 6 foot dawg.

 

[patscorpio]

I had a lanky build for my teen years...wanted to bulk up. When I started college in 2000 one of the first places I acclimated myself was the campus gym. Never looked back

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

This guy threw me in the bushes on New Year's day in 2011. Going to the gym helped me deal with my broken heart When I started getting results, I kinda just stuck with it and here I am.

 

[Kal El]

I was skinnyfat and had a pear shaped body

That was enough motivation for me. Not gonna lie though, do it for the ladies too

But 4 years later and we on that V-shape time

 

[hazardous]

I was skinnyfat and had a pear shaped body

That was enough motivation for me. Not gonna lie though, do it for the ladies too

But 4 years later and we on that V-shape time

I'm surprised it took 2 pages for this to be brought up

 

[TGainz]

Honestly to pull more females.....plus I'm still in school so it's still "free"...but now I really got into it and started eating better, just gotta fall back on the drinking

 

[Formerly known as...]

Was skinny growing up and still struggle to put on weight at times.

My younger cousin was training and he had and still has a crazy physique and I just wanted the same initially. I started training at 20 and spent a good 3-4 years training wrong basically, and not eating the correct food just whatever I wanted as I didn't put weight on easily anyway.

29 now and I know the right way to train and what to eat to get the best results.