[kenney]

i have always been confident but when i started to get a bit chubby, i lost that confidence. so i started lifting weights, doing cardio and i noticed a difference, but more importantly, i notced people noticing a difference...i was hooked

[bbdude]

people always said i was so thin, so i started building up to get bigger and to get stronger for basketball... then i saw this pic of ronnie coleman and one of jay cutler and thought: thats how i wanna be.... i want people to look up to me and now ive been in this game for alsmot 6 months, still lovin it....

[AmericanPowerHouse]

I saw a picture of Johnnie Jackson in a Muscle and Development magazine and thought "I would kill for that body" I've killing MYSELF every since!

[cook82]

Originally Posted by thefreak350

Most of today's top bb's don't even want to be that big. I don't like it. I like guys like Arnold and Zane.

I discovered bodybuilding from a Flex magazine cover.

I agree the pros from the 70's looked MUCH better.

[Sed]

started by wanting to be bigger, mostly because I thought it looked nice, so started with situps/pushups daily, also swimming a few times a week. always thought myself as relatively small and after a few months of workout people starting noticing that I had some muscle (always been into computer games, known by people for my almost-addictive ways) and they were impressed and I started to feel confident and felt better while working out and got cought