'>>74113008
No sports after highschool, become depressed and skeleton, getting mogged at work by older men. Realized exercise is important for mental health and being a skeleton only works when your young';

'>>74113008
I was 53kg as 18 year old and some guys mistook me for a girl in PE class. Im 30 years old now and been mentally ill since. I dont even know if I like lifting but I just cant let go of the "bodybuilder" image anymore. I just hate looking myself at the mirror when I take breaks from lifting. Terrible body dysmorphia.';

'>>74113052
very cute origin story';

'>>74113008
Few years ago I started lifting for a couple of months just to become more good looking, it worked, got a gf, quit lifting for almost 2 years because I moved to a small town with no gym with her. She cheated on me, I broke up with her, moved out and now I'm lifting to spite that bitch.

I will become a superior version of myself, never allow myself to quit again and make her regret it (she already does and was constantly texting me for months to forgive her, even baiting me with sex).
Already got to lmao 2pl8 bench for 5 reps and 1pl8t ohp from basically nothing in a couple months of lifting.

Demons, insecurities, trauma and vengeance. I want my next gf to mog her and let her see that I'm thriving, I'm just better while she stayed the same.';

'>>74113008
I was the fat kid growing up. My parent’s were fat and thought sports were stupid. At 15, i was an obese /pol/tard bodering on suicide. I stumbled onto /fit/ and the rest is history. I am now going on 20, and even though I am still not visibly muscular, i am 15% bf and love to run';

'>>74113008
i played football. Benched upwards of 300 pounds by the time I was 16 squatted more than 500 mogged everyone and no one fucked with me. I was the starting middle linebacker and with that confidence I had access to unlimited poon and could hang out with anyone i so desired';

'had 2 obstructive kidney stones that i had to have surgery to remove, so i was in severe pain for 1 week the first time and then 2 weeks the second time, stopped drinking soda, lost like 40 lbs just from that, then i just leaned into healthy eating and then exercise. I then lost 39% of my bodyweight and kept it off.';

'>>74113008
I was always fat as a kid. And I’m not saying 20 pounds overweight. I was wearing mens sized clothes in 4th grade. Around after dropping out of high school (due to depression I’d say by the obesity: highest recorded weight was around 380) I woke up one day and just got a gym membership.

For an entire year and more I shredded the weight dropped down to 250. Covid came, gained some back, dropped back down to 210.

A coworker wanted to go to the gym with our group and he’s a heavy lifter and he got me into the muscle side of it all.';

'Being a fatty.
I actually have great genes for it. My dad always had a physique that Fit would drool over, and he just had a construction job. He was a 3 sport D1 level athlete growing up.
So I always had natural strength and good muscle development, but I was a fat kid.
Losing the fat and becoming good looking got me into it.';

'Tried it, liked it, kept doing it.';

'Was browsing /fit/ looking at current body threads and my gf passed by and commented on an anon's having such a great body and being, and i quote, "well built"';

'>>74113371
God I swear it’s like women don’t fucking understand or care how that shit comes across. They play fucking dumb.

I’d smack the shit out of her.';

'>>74113156
bestselling novel snopsis by famous author rajeesh singh';

'>>74113008
went to wales with my friends to their uni about two years ago having come from a very flat part of the UK. being 320lbs, it was absolute fucking hell on my body and I got so sick of it when we went again a few months later, I started lifting and took up boxing and almost 100lbs later, I'm much happier.';

'Joined the HS tennis team my junior year because a friend urged me to and it sounded fun, could barely handle any of the running since I was out of shape and ended up ranking dead last on the team, never won an official match against someone. Never felt more humiliated in my life getting mogged daily by 5'5 freshman at 17 and 6 foot, was so fucking pathetic I could only cope by hitting the gym';

'>>74113371
>>74113385
Yeah it's true
A lot of Women genuinely believe men they are attracted to don't work out or don't do anything to maintain.
This is kind of true with teenagers, but a teenager who does absolutely nothing will have no muscle.';

'>>74113008
In highschool I did about four years of shot put - I was in great shape, strong, handsome, confident. At 17 years old I quit it because I was super focused on my studies and wanted to focus on my studies so that I could get into a good university, become a construction engineer... Fast-forward a few years, I'm in uni, studying to be an engineer but I am very unhappy, not exactly fat but definitely chonky, slow and ashamed of my looks, wearing baggy clothes so that nobody would be able to tell how large my ass is. Every day I am more and more self conscious and I hate it, at some point even suicidal.
Summer comes along, I get a job at a nearby construction site, digging holes, mixing cement, carrying bricks. It was the dirtiest job I've ever had but I felt better and better every day.
>"Who woulda thunk? Physical activity is good for you"
^ This took way too long to understand. Later bought a pull up bar and a jump rope, started doing calisthenics at home, later bought weights, kettlebells and the rest is history. It's been almost 10 years and the most days in a row where I didn't do any exercise was about 10 days while I was traveling in Italy.';

'Didn't like how I looked, kept it up because of how much better I felt.';

'Was a scrawny dweeby loser as a kid and wanted to be big and manly. Never really achieved the big manly look, despite lifting for over 10 years now. Just look moderately athletic.';

'>>74113008
he can do way better than that wallsmacker';

'>>74113052
nah i think you were raped when you were younger and that's why a little unimportant embarrassing event like getting confused for a girl caused such heavy damage to your life.
It's nice that you're physically healthy though bro';

'My cousin was an underwear model, and I was fat.';

'>>74113008
Was a fat neet all of my childhood/teens, one day decided I was done, got my teeth fixed, started going to gym, changed diet, and working on my career atm.';

'>>74113008
At uni I had a good friend who had a REAL fucking ugly face. Dude looked like fucking pic rel. Anyway, I guess he compensated for it by being a big into fitness. Dude had the best physique I've ever seen, no homo. No visible bodyfat whatsoever. . I was dyel skinnyfat and would get really winded when we played basketball. So one day he starts bugging me about going to the gym with him, telling me how fun it is, how good I'll feel, etc. Eventually I gave in and went and had a lot of fun, have kept lifting ever since. My friend later got married to a 10/10 swimsuit model, but his face is still really fucked up.';

'>>74113008
Unironically being popular with sluts but then suddenly acquiring hot and sporty tomboy gf with zero previous sexual experience did it for me. I wanted to become better version of myself for her.';

'I lift so my mom can squeeze my muscles and be proud of me';

'I was always a chubby kid growing up and wanted confidence in myself';