Poll: Your Training History

[jcp2]

I was almost 230 at 16, strong but a definately soft, went to west virginia, and would only train in the summers to get myself back into shape, finally the second half of my fourth year ( not my senior year) i got back into it. The beginning of my fifth year i passed out sitting on my porch smoking a butt, and tumbled backwards six feet down onto my neck and shoulder. That is still a little problem. That set me back until the second semester my fifth year, and from their i kept up pretty good, some breaks, quit drinking hard and doing drugs a year later, and from their pretty much never looked back. Now i don't take too many breaks, and not more that 2 or 3 weeks at a time. I honestly wouldn't know what to do with myself if i didn't workout, and my biggest fear is that I would slip back into drugs and drinking. I am probably and alcoholic and have pondered going to AA a few times, but i think the gym has kept me stable the last four years, and i try hard to control myself the rare times i drink now.

 

[atherjen]

I was always an athlete in high school and took up bodybuilding as well when I was 15. going on 19 in less than 2 weeks, so around 4 years.

 

[LiQuiD_FiRe]

creepy... i started at the same age and turn 19 in june..

 

[rubberduckyo]

Played every sport I could all through my school years and on into college. Got lazy for a few years and started putting on the pounds so into the gym I went. Queen of over training and getting no-where except skinny.

Sweets put together a new program for me this past August and have made some progress with it.

Guilty of being lazy as of late but with the new year come resolutions right?

 

[Fyre]

i was involved in sports all through high school. I did competitive gymnastics and track. I was a super skinny girl in school and decided to take up weight training to help me put some meat on my bones.
I've been training for 16yrs now and just recently added a new dimension to my training with the mixed martial arts. I'm looking forward to training for the next 16+yrs too!!

 

[string_bean00]

When I had just turned 18 I started doing just simple stuff in my basement with what I had. Bench, curls, situps, pushups, chins, etc. I didn't know too much, as I was doing the same workout 3-4x per week. Eventually I took a weight training class in high school then joined a gym, where I am now.

 

[atherjen]

i was involved in sports all through high school. I did competitive gymnastics and track. I was a super skinny girl in school and decided to take up weight training to help me put some meat on my bones.
I've been training for 16yrs now and just recently added a new dimension to my training with the mixed martial arts. I'm looking forward to training for the next 16+yrs too!!

and your my inspiration babes! you just keep going and going and going!
how is the martial arts going? and are you still going to be competing this year in fitness?

 

[Fyre]

and your my inspiration babes! you just keep going and going and going!
how is the martial arts going? and are you still going to be competing this year in fitness?

My focus right now is my mma training. I'm loving the intensity of the workouts. I'm looking to add in some Muay Thai training in the New Year as well. As for competing in fitness this year, not going to happen. I had a couple of injuries last year that have held me back from doing any gymnastics, which is definitely one required aspect with fitness competitions.
How is your contest prep going hun?

 

[atherjen]

My focus right now is my mma training. I'm loving the intensity of the workouts. I'm looking to add in some Muay Thai training in the New Year as well. As for competing in fitness this year, not going to happen. I had a couple of injuries last year that have held me back from doing any gymnastics, which is definitely one required aspect with fitness competitions.
How is your contest prep going hun?

thats too bad to hear about the injuries/fitness situ. but it sounds as though you've made up for it with this new sort of training!
the prep is going ok for now, have dropped down to 145 since nov.11 (150 then). cardio is only 1-2x week so its all just basically diet right now, I'll be pm'ing you soon for some advice

 

[Fyre]

thats too bad to hear about the injuries/fitness situ. but it sounds as though you've made up for it with this new sort of training!
the prep is going ok for now, have dropped down to 145 since nov.11 (150 then). cardio is only 1-2x week so its all just basically diet right now, I'll be pm'ing you soon for some advice

Anytime hun.

 

[sparklylegwarmers]

you must be really close to comp shape then, jen.

fyre, i was exactly the same way in high school... gotta get some shape on the body!

 

[HardBody]

I was 14, wrestled since i was 8, decided to get strong so i could take care of business on the mat, and ever since then i was named "unstoppable" it's like smoking, just a habbit,

 

[Achilles]

Bodybuilding for me was about fitness, and blowing past the average.

 

[XxIcEMaNxX]

I started training in 9th grade really besides lifting a few dumbells here and there before. I'm short so i figured if i don't have the height, I at least want the muscle, so i started working out. Then I saw Pumping Iron and saw Franco Columbu, who is also short and after I saw him, I wanted to be a bodybuilder, so I started training.

 

[Paladin]

well ive been swimming since I was 6 competatively, and i'm a boxer and represent the Itasca gyms in Illinois.. hm.. I haven't really started weight lifting for the sake of training and growing until about 3 weeks ago and all seems good, my arms have grown 1/2 inch and abs and back are toning more.. guess we'll see how it goes

 

[rjx]

I voted for "I've trained off and on over the years". But I am also a recovering fatass

 

[majic]

I was always an athlete.... Tragically, I was a cross-country/track runner, heh. I was 150 lbs 3 years ago. Up to 196 now. So I voted "recovering stick boy" =)

 

[hornedfrogs07]

I was always an athlete.... Tragically, I was a cross-country/track runner, heh. I was 150 lbs 3 years ago. Up to 196 now. So I voted "recovering stick boy" =)

Kinda like me......I was a fatass (198, 35%) then lost over 50 pounds and became a CC runner (145-150, 10% Sophomore Year) and I've been gradually gaining weight ever since (My senior year, I ran my best times, and weighed 175-180, 12%; I was competing with a 50lb weight "disadvantage"), bodybuilding/powerlifting combination of training styles.

 

[benefit]

i started as a sophmore in high school after school didnt know how to train what so ever all i did was bench lol and got a nice looking monsterous chest then as a junior i joined body building as a class which is basically weight lifting at our school still didnt know too much bout lifting and now i go to the gym so ive been lifting for about 2 years i would say freshmen year i weighed about 120 and now im 160 so i was one of the lil skinny kids but i did put on some weight but im still skinny i want to be bout 180 but anyways been training 2 and i recently gained 15 pounds about a week and a half ago when i decided to eat right high protein before i never ate right i would only eat bout 3 times a day breakfast lunch and dinner.

 

[rjx]

OMG. A 155 word sentence