What is your "WHY"?

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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.
 
So we have to use labels? I like to call it just training for my goals.

Originally I hated working out and gym put me off. What got me in to getting muscular and strong and then obviously steroids is because I was bullied at school and the hood. I lived in the wrong part of town in my teens let's just put it that way. So, I was too intimidated to go to the gym at first, so I started doing pullups and dips and in one summer got bigger and stronger than most kids my age or few years older...

Then I worked another summer at construction job to save some cash and to afford gym and creatine with grape juice and whey protein with milk was the SHIT!

I bulked so freakin' hard next year I was probably the biggest teen in school lol. It was final year of school. Then I went to serve the army and got in to cross fit and cardio. So yeah it was my young days journey 14-20 years.

Then I trained and trained for three morr years and at 23 I jumped on testo and dbol and that's how I started anabolics...

So original goal was to stop getting my ass kicked and defend myself, then of course it changed to enjoying what I do and now just continuing until I'm jacked father and grandpa. So yeah, ladies are a bonus I think. I didn't originally started for them, but it sure does help to find high quality women and finnally a mate to live life and have kids with. Of course inspiring younged kids is kinda cool too, but showing off was never my style or goal.
 
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.
Many do it because they are high and they feel the power in their body.
 
Easy, to look better and increased performance doesn't hurt. As a late bloomer, I have struggled since my teens with self image issues.
Health issues like Diabetes enforced my dedication to live a healthy lifestyle.
I look great on the outside, yet I'm a trainwreck on the inside.
 
I started mid 20s in powerlifting. Loved pursuing the numbers and enjoyed mindlessly tacking on
5-10lb plates to the barbell every week. Plus I loved feeling really strong walking around. Especially in the low back and posterior chain.

Then I got divorced at 30 and decided to start bodybuilding because I wanted to look good naked when I reintroduced myself to the ladies. That lasted several years before I realized I really enjoyed constructing a physique based on what my eye thought looked ideal.

I think most men are builders in a way. Unfortunately I didn’t get the construction gene or mechanical mind. But I did get it in the sense of building and constructing my idea of the perfect physique with the body God gave me. Like a sculptor using iron to sculpt.

Ive lost interest in it as of late though. I still train 5-6 days a week but it’s different now. I lost a lot of the vanity recently and that apparently was part of the formula that made it all work. May go back to strength training actually. Just a little more cardio this time lol
 
To avoid becoming a serial killer
This ^^

Its a mental health thing for me, the gym gives me a sense of peace, lifting heavy things is the most relaxing part of my day.
Naturally bodybuilding for 9 years before jumping on gear, I'm not doing it for health, I know the gear will put me in an early grave as I always push things too far but I can't see life without it.
There was a time earlier this year where I was looking at surgery for a back injury that'd see me out of the gym for 3 months minimum, I actually didn't know how my mental health would've held up, and that was my biggest concern, luckily the epidural shot fixed the issue and I'm almost back 100%.
Just grinding everyday so I don't kill people...
 
Easy, to look better and increased performance doesn't hurt. As a late bloomer, I have struggled since my teens with self image issues.
Health issues like Diabetes enforced my dedication to live a healthy lifestyle.
I look great on the outside, yet I'm a trainwreck on the inside.
What's going on with you inside? What's stopping you from living?
 
This ^^

Its a mental health thing for me, the gym gives me a sense of peace, lifting heavy things is the most relaxing part of my day.
Naturally bodybuilding for 9 years before jumping on gear, I'm not doing it for health, I know the gear will put me in an early grave as I always push things too far but I can't see life without it.
There was a time earlier this year where I was looking at surgery for a back injury that'd see me out of the gym for 3 months minimum, I actually didn't know how my mental health would've held up, and that was my biggest concern, luckily the epidural shot fixed the issue and I'm almost back 100%.
Just grinding everyday so I don't kill people...
A similar story with mine, the hall for me is better than any psychologist, relieves stress, delivers a bunch of positive emotions. When I couldn’t practice, I didn’t know how to cope with myself, my head couldn’t function normally.
 
What's going on with you inside? What's stopping you from living?
Another simple question that will receive a simple answer.
My reckless abuse of substances to alter both my perceived imperfections and feelings have left permanent life altering scars.

I'm living life to the fullest. I have absolutely no regrets, although in hindsight everyone would change things they had done with the thought a different outcome may be better.
 
When I started in like ‘94, it was after I decided to hang up the baseball cleats in college after being injured one too many times. It was kind of a replacement sport for an athlete that no longer had any organized sports. Used to read comics, always wanted to look like the hulk, Thor, et al, Same with Stallone/Arnold, growing up watching those movies. Almost 30 years later, coming up on 50 and a couple surgeries, I may have overdone it a bit.
 
Another simple question that will receive a simple answer.
My reckless abuse of substances to alter both my perceived imperfections and feelings have left permanent life altering scars.

I'm living life to the fullest. I have absolutely no regrets, although in hindsight everyone would change things they had done with the thought a different outcome may be better.
That's the main thing that you do not regret, you have to live now and be happy or strive for happiness.
 
When I started in like ‘94, it was after I decided to hang up the baseball cleats in college after being injured one too many times. It was kind of a replacement sport for an athlete that no longer had any organized sports. Used to read comics, always wanted to look like the hulk, Thor, et al, Same with Stallone/Arnold, growing up watching those movies. Almost 30 years later, coming up on 50 and a couple surgeries, I may have overdone it a bit.
What would you change now based on your experience and mistakes?
 
I was boxing for many years through my teens. I was 6'4 65kg pathetic!!! I knew I looked skinny af but I didn't care as long as I could fight and win and also get some pussy. I was skinny af tall but beautiful.

One day I was on a wedding and this milf who was my mom friend told " such a shame so beautiful man so tall but so skinny "
That sentence stuck in my head and that's how I got into lifting weights.
Now years later she always asking me "you sure you natural?"
I'm really grateful for those words because they got me going and then bodybuilding became lifestyle.
But still haven't fucked her YET
 
I was boxing for many years through my teens. I was 6'4 65kg pathetic!!! I knew I looked skinny af but I didn't care as long as I could fight and win and also get some pussy. I was skinny af tall but beautiful.

One day I was on a wedding and this milf who was my mom friend told " such a shame so beautiful man so tall but so skinny "
That sentence stuck in my head and that's how I got into lifting weights.
Now years later she always asking me "you sure you natural?"
I'm really grateful for those words because they got me going and then bodybuilding became lifestyle.
But still haven't fucked her YET
A familiar situation prompted me to go to the gym, I was the weakest boy at school, I could not do push-ups from the floor and pull myself up. I complained to my father and he took me to a weightlifting coach.
 
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