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What do you like about weight training?

sypress Posts: 192 Joined: 2003/04/13	2003/04/27, 12:17 PM I really enjoy the feeling of getting stronger. Ive always preffered weight lifting over cardio. Also let me know what made you decide to start weight training? I tried it in high school and was hooked! Thanks
skinnyrobin Posts: 224 Joined: 2002/05/10	2003/04/27, 12:57 PM i love the burning sensation in my muscles during the exercises and the tired, warm feeling after the workout. i decided to do weight training to get stronger and look bigger.
roni0906 Posts: 1,008 Joined: 2002/01/24	2003/04/27, 01:08 PM What made me start weight training was the fact that I was over the weight standards for the Marine Corps and I tried diet and cardio and it just didn't seem to working the way I had wanted it to so I started to do a lot of research on the web and ran into freetrainers. Read some of the posts, signed up for a program and well got "hooked". I love weight training and saw great results. I lost about 20 pounds in a matter of about 2 months and can't believe it took so long for me to figure it out. -------------- Lisa Just laugh about it....
ageis Posts: 198 Joined: 2002/10/25	2003/04/27, 05:54 PM the pain...
dahayz Posts: 794 Joined: 2002/05/08	2003/04/27, 09:36 PM Weight lifting has become something that is hard to put into words. It is a spiritual journey for me, that may sound weird to some, but I have reached a point that I am so connected with my body that it is scary. When I am lifting, I am in a whole other world. I am not thinking about what is happening around me, in my life, or what I have planned that day. I am only thinking about me and the iron. People in the gym disappear and I am in MY world. It is an art form, taking a hunk of meat, and literally carving a masterpiece that I can call my own. This is something I can truly call my own, nobody is waking up at 4:45 in the morning to lift my weights, no, it is MY will power and determination. Weight training is a time when your whole body is truly insync with nature, and time has no meaning. This is what weight training is for me. A journey. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Live the life.
jrchomrk Posts: 60 Joined: 2003/03/16	2003/04/27, 10:21 PM dang. that's deep.
Miyu Posts: 118 Joined: 2003/04/15	2003/04/27, 10:30 PM I like to feel my muscles moving (the sting and burn ). I like the feeling you get when you make it through the whole set... and the feeling when you don't- that determination that next time, for damn sure, you will. I like being able to do things now that I couldn't before (rock climbing, hiking, speed walking, jogging). The results are the best and the ability to say to yourself "I did this all on my own". Like dahayz I like the zone you get into when exercising- you don't think, you just feel your body and how it's moving. It hurts and it's work, but it hurts good. -------------- The will, as the thing in itself, constitutes the inner, true, and indestructible nature of man... --Schopenhauer
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2003/04/27, 10:47 PM I wanted to quit smoking and get back into good healthy living, needed a self motivator and didn't want to gain weight. Cardio and lifting motivated me, and still does, all the way through my weekly adventures, including the adventures in the gym. -------------- We must become the change we want to see. Ivan Montreal Canada
Philia2 Posts: 4,078 Joined: 2001/10/19	2003/04/28, 01:42 AM The fight between me and the dumbbell....... (o; lol I feel like kicking the darn thing instead I'm slowly lifting (and suffering in silence!). Ohh I think you have to be a liiiiittle bit crazy to love weight lifting........ -------------- - Nina :o) Les Victoires éternelles sont celles du coeur.
rsquade Posts: 152 Joined: 2003/01/06	2003/04/28, 09:19 AM I love getting into the rhythm of the workout. When I drop into "the zone", the time passes quickly, I lift more weight more times, my head clears. I go back to my office with answers and insights.
dpking44 Posts: 470 Joined: 2002/08/07	2003/04/28, 09:49 AM Fighting the pain, it's war baby!
jefado Posts: 443 Joined: 2003/04/03	2003/04/28, 09:57 AM Nice question to ask yourself before continuing with anything :o) For Cardio and Weights: the pure, simplistic burn <smile> and the satisfaction derived from breaching previous limits.
fsimmons Posts: 77 Joined: 2003/03/24	2003/04/28, 10:01 AM i love the way it has allowed me to stop at mirrors and look in awe at the changes that my body has gone through since the last time. i love the way i now do double takes in the dressing room at where my butt used to be and my arms used to hang in mirrors instead of rushing past them in shame. i love the way my husband watches me lustfully as i pose for him and the mirror with my ever firming body. i love the way it makes me look. and that makes me feel good. when i'm done my workout and i can't lift me coat out of the locker... or i have to hold the railing going down the steps because my legs feel like they're rolling down them without me... when my entire body feels like jello... i know i've done my workout right! i know i'm that much closer to my goals! those pains and sensations have become welcome feelings that i long for after each workout. i'm addicted.
I_Am-aZon Posts: 893 Joined: 2003/02/18	2003/04/28, 10:10 AM I like weight training because it has shown me definite proof that I am attaining a goal that I set for myself. Also, I find that mental stress from work, life etc., is also alleviated by a physically hard workout. I will push myself to the limit when I am under high stress and what a wonderful feeling to exhaust yourself from your workout, leaving no room for the stress to re-enter, since it has already drained away.
gwindalyn Posts: 434 Joined: 2003/01/15	2003/04/28, 10:47 AM I started because I was tired of not liking the way I looked in pictures and not being comfortable wearing shorts or a bathing suit. And I had just had enough of not being able to walk a flight of stairs without being out of breath. You could say anger at myself is what got me started. :) What do I like about it? Stress relief. Feeling of accomplishment. A high (physical & mental). Sense of pride it gives me. The pain in my muscles the next day. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that I get to gawk and drool at all the sexy bodies there. LOL! -------------- ~Jennifer http://www.gwindalyn.com If you dont stand for something, you will fall for anything.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2003/04/28, 10:55 AM Working out/weightlifting has done things for me in many other areas, first and foremost optimal health, and a great body happens to come along with it. But also as I have become disciplined in training, I apply that same discipline to other aspects of my life. I tell myself, I can do it no matter what in training, I can do this (whatever task it may be) the same way. My wife says that I am "anal" as far as training and diet goes, I keep a log of everything I eat, every training session, each one is individualistic and I NEVER miss. If my next meal schedule is 3 o'clock, you can bet money I will be eating at 3! The discipline of this regimine carries over to my personal life also, I use it as logic to get things accomplished as well. -------------- The one goal you will NEVER achieve is the one you never attempt.
sypress Posts: 192 Joined: 2003/04/13	2003/04/28, 11:22 AM wow thankyou for all your responses!
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2003/04/28, 01:40 PM I like the feeling of lifting something heavy and actually doing it. the burn afterwards is great as well. -------------- IF YOU CAN STILL ITCH YOUR NOSE AFTER ARM DAY, GO DO ANOTHER SET!!!
jefado Posts: 443 Joined: 2003/04/03	2003/04/28, 01:41 PM Like I said before, Sypress, Great question :o)
rpacheco Posts: 3,770 Joined: 2001/12/13	2003/04/28, 01:44 PM The pump! -------------- **_Robert_** Pain is temporary; glory is forever!
Ravenbeauty Posts: 3,755 Joined: 2002/09/24	2003/04/28, 02:19 PM Geez, how can you just name one???? There are so many things I love about it. I would have to say the awesome confidence it gives me! My outlook on life, everything is so much better with a healthy mind and healthy body!!! Plus I love that aching feeling after a good workout that lets you know, "Bettia, you've done well today!" -------------- Bettia.... When you feel like giving up, take it to the limit one more time!! You will SUCEED :-)
sandysford Posts: 1,139 Joined: 2002/11/18	2003/04/28, 02:44 PM I started working out because of health problems that I was having (Diabetes and High Blood pressure) I even joined a gym but didn't stay with it to long. At 167 lbs I met my husband who all of you know is very disciplined in all aspects of his life. Anyway he was so healthy and I felt so unhealthy that he became my inspiration to make my life better through diet and exercise. My doctor had told me that it could be a possibility that I could be medicine free if I lost the weight and exercised. I was 250lbs in December of 1999 when I found out I was sick and on my own got down to 167lbs just by trying to follow the diabetic diet and exercising when I could. Now after a little over a year with my husbands guidence I am a slim trim and have muscles everywhere and med free for 6 months now. (glutes are weak above the hamstring area) (but that is even getting better after a revision of my glute exercises). My kids call me the beast LOL. They used to call me their fat little mama. And the best thing about the gym to me is the payoff when I look in the mirror and see someone that I like. One other good thing......going there and working out with my hubby, who is so very supportive of my accomplishments. -------------- I will lift my own weight someday!!!!!
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2003/04/28, 05:07 PM After every single session in the gym, as I lie dying on my couch with my post-workout shake in hand, and I ask "Why?" Have yet to come up with a valid answer........LOL! -------------- Michael "Trample the weak; hurdle the dead!"
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2003/04/28, 05:21 PM Yeah, its pretty funny, after each workout when I have pushed myself to the max, I always say in the gym to at least one person this sh$$ better be good for you!! LOL... -------------- The one goal you will NEVER achieve is the one you never attempt.
Cjtyson Posts: 51 Joined: 2003/04/12	2003/04/28, 06:14 PM I'll tell you about working out: working out is a word used by dillitante's and heartless manipulators about exercise that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about working out. I don't know Van Dame but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what looks to you like a big load of trashy old exercise is in fact the brilliant work of a genius, myself . And that exercise is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?"
oxdp954 Posts: 38 Joined: 2003/03/12	2003/04/28, 07:25 PM Working out has become my escape. Some people drink, some people smoke, some write, I lift weights. For a while I quit working out, I gave myself all the excuses in the world (time, it hurts, whatever) but the second I stepped back into the weight room it all came back to me. The weight room is my safe haven. Nobody really judges me in there (and if they do I'm to busy to notice) I don't have to worry about my school work, my personal life, or even thinking at all. Its just me and the next rep. I'm a better person because of my training. Also, I love doing my monthly measurements and seeing that my quads have grown in size, or that my bicep increased 1/4 of an inch. That 1/4 of an inch is something tangable that I can see. I know I busted my butt for it and it brings a feeling of satisfaction to me. Oh, one more thing. Nobody can take my body away from me. It is the one thing in this world that I have absolute control over (minus my genes). I know that the amount of work I put into weight training relates directly to the results I get. -------------- Justin Work hard, Play hard, Stay hard!
t-babe Posts: 441 Joined: 2003/02/20	2003/04/29, 02:46 AM My decision to change the way I was living my life stems from similar feelings to Gwin. I didn't like the way I looked or the way I felt about myself. I knew my health was suffering - but cos I'd always got away with it due to my build and my height. I kept making excuses. Till they got really tired. And so did I because I'd turned into a couch potato. But it really hit me when I realised 18 months into my new job I wasn't fit for it. It gave me a shake up and I half heartedly started swimming and doing weights in the house but it wasn't enough. Started doing the basic exercise program here and Gawd it hurt!!! But I kept going with it. And I've also managed to take a good hard look at my nutrition and realised that I was doing everything wrong. Now I'm eating healthier, feeling healthier and on my way. What I love about working out - it's the constant strive to improve and knowing you've had a good workout. Like when you dread having to run cause you just busted yourself on squats and lunges the day before. Or as Mutt says, opening a jar of something and feeling like it's a struggle. The visual aspect helps to - flexing your muscles and seeing how they've grown (doesn't matter if its only a little - it's better than nothing). So I'm on a new healthy eating plan and with the help of this site and you guys here on my way to rising confidence and an athletic body. Then i can kick sand in somebody's face. :)
atlboi Posts: 80 Joined: 2002/10/16	2003/04/29, 11:14 AM Stress relief
sypress Posts: 192 Joined: 2003/04/13	2003/04/29, 05:11 PM I really enjoy reading everyones responses. I truly enjoy this site! It inspires me to see everyone and all the hard work they do! Its very motivational and thats exactly what i needed.Thanks again everyone.I hope you all enjoyed tihs topic as much as i did.
Ogun Posts: 559 Joined: 2002/08/11	2003/05/01, 07:56 AM It's all about endorphins baby, hook me up with the magic carpet ride when I limp out of that gym barfing and screaming...worth every cost :D -------------- --There are no versions of the truth.-- Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park II
Ogun Posts: 559 Joined: 2002/08/11	2003/05/01, 07:58 AM And stress relief like atlboi said...people are allowed to live since I beat up machines
KageanRage Posts: 78 Joined: 2002/11/29	2003/05/01, 09:33 AM lol Ogun I remember being in high school gym class watching 'shirts vs skins' games and hoping that i'd never be in one of those games where I had to be on the shirtless team. these days i'll be the first to volunteer for skins :) soooo worth it.
Ogun Posts: 559 Joined: 2002/08/11	2003/05/01, 10:57 AM It's a good feeling huh? I hope everybody takes a moment here and there to look in the mirror and say "Good work mon ami." -------------- --There are no versions of the truth.-- Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park II
Stormcrow Posts: 77 Joined: 2003/02/22	2003/05/01, 01:11 PM An escape from the stupid and irrational aspects of this world. The pump. Feeling unstoppable. Being dedicated to something real and good. Looking forward to taking a pee because I get to pass a mirror and check on the progress of my triceps. Knowing my beautiful wife isn't married to a tub of sh*t (resembling Chet at the end of Wierd Science). Letting the dark and blocking chi get funneled out and into the weights. And then there's the inexplicable rush--must be some sort of seratonin boost. -------------- . . . to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women . . .