How old when you started & how long have you been training?

[Glenn]

How old were you guys when you got started seriously training with weights and how long have you been training now?



I turned 32 at the start of this year and have been training just over a year - wish I'd got started back in my late teens! :D

[-AC-]

I was about 15 when i started messing about in the gym. started taking it seriously when i turned about 17. since i started ive doubled my bodyweight.

[JoshLarge]

I started training september 2008 so have been training 17months just about!
Takes alot of effort and dedication but i enjoy doing it so i believe i will stick to it for the forseeable future.

[Machine]

i started 11 years ago when i was 15, i was in the school gym every other night. i then left school and got fat. i joined the gym again when i started college got fit, met my fieancee, got fat again........i then stasrted the gym again with friends got fit ish. friends left...... had to work 50hrs left gym, got fat. i got back for good about 4 months ago. started at 16stone now 14 stone andf getting ripped. never give up.

[-AC-]

hahhaa you're worse than kerry katona. fat, ripped, fat, ripped. nows the time to be in your best shape yet though dude. lets see what you got.

[JoshLarge]

I just feel like a lump of lard at the moment! Cant wait for when my cut starts April...16weeks of Cravings and obstacles along the way! God its gonna be hard.

[Machine]

yeah.... i love my food. its like im drawn to 30oz steaks deep fried everything and a whopper on the side lol. oh well those days are gone now. lol

[CTP]

I started back when I was 17 - I was living above a nightclub, and my main social circle were doorman. Lots of them were trying to either put size on, or cut back getting ready for a handful of competitions. I was quickly put off though, most of them were churning through roids - not a good place to be.

I have been on and off ever since then, its only now though im beginning to see the gains in my training that I want.

I wish I knew what i do now back then, I could have made soooo many gains lol - I guess looking back in retrospect is easily done though.

[robrobin10]

I started working out in the gym regularly when I was 18 and had left home to go to uni.

Girls are a great motivater for a young man it seems.

But I didn't really get into training properly until I was about 22 when I met some guys at work who where really into it and got me hooked as well.

[bret5263]

been weight training for bout 3 years.....never taken it seriously till now! changed my training plan and nutrition plan so hopefully get the body ive always wanted!

[matttat2]

Been training for a week off for a year for years. Always wanted to be bigger and ripped but was to busy ****ing about to try. Almost did roids when I was 17 cause was hanging around with two big butters and felt even smaller, heard about bitch tit, losing your cock and needing other drugs to counteract it and decided against it.

Only really been trying to train as much as I can since joining the forum so at a guess 3-4 months.

[The Truth]

Started when I was 17 - messed around for like a month when I was 16 but have been training for 5 months straight now, I don't count the month or two of working out once or twice a week doing random exercises lol

[poxxxy]

So looks like most people here are new comers to training really, cant say much differently for myself, I can remember benching about 50kg when I was 13 and was impressed (was watching my older brother at the time and his mates training at home) but I was always one to sit in on the internet more so than most people, knowledge is power and all that ;). So never really got into lifting seriously until the January when a couple of friends from uni mentioned the gym and it was finally in a price range I could afford comfortably with no contract! With my dedication i'm half tempted to spend big on a nice gym with luxuries as i've proven i'm more than committed to my training. My reason for getting to the gym = Serious waistline expansion whilst in my current 4 and a half year relationship. Felt like I had chest pains every time I ate a greasy pizza lol. Gone from semi decent body to a nightmare! But it happens so quickly. My goal has to been strip weight and build some lean muscle, I went straight into advanced training routines really and made a great loss of 3 stone and good gains in 3 months but I was on seriously low calories. I then spent about 4 months on a 45/35/20 c/p/f ratio and lost about 6lbs or so if that but dropped about 5% bodyfat. I'm now on a first keto diet (tried in early teens but without training or more knowledge) hoping to strip about 10-15lbs off fat or maybe more depending on how I look. But that will leave me at about 12.5-13 stone... smallest i've been since I was literally 13. lol. I really can't wait to bulk up and add a couple inches to my arms, define a chest and see my abs, although I have a feeling my best attribute will be quads, despite having disappeared over the past few years. I always had thunder thighs lol.

As for a reminder of what I was last year (seems impossible looking back at pictures) I still have the stretch marks, some between 1-1.5cm wide and about 4 inches long across the majority of my waist. They're pretty sick, but they are never going anywhere. I seriously used to feel like I could feel my skin tearing... and i'm pretty sure thats exactly what it was!

[robisnow]

well i was on and off the gym since i was 17, and i got serious about my wieght training in February this year.
As an avid runnner I cant say im looking to get massive, that would really effect my running, but being as strong as you can be is a massive help.
One of my larger mates just got back into the gym and im pleased to see im lifting the same sort of weights he is!not that you'd think it looking at me! :)

[BennyB123]

Bout a year and I'm only 18 :)
The future's bright, the future's.. erm, Spanish.

[Urithrand]

I started when I was 25 and have been training for 2 months. I'm still 25. I also studied biology and nutrition as part of a diploma for a year, so you could call that psychological bodybuilding :D

[chale989]

exactly the same as benny.

[BenWeb]

been training since i was 16 but have only got my nutrition together this year.

[spongehead]

I started at the gym when i was 18
But pretty much wasted my time untill about 10 months ago, im 21 now and am finally quite happy with my training and nutrition knowledge

[josh]

ive been training on and off for the last 3 years.been going back almost 2months now and i think this time i'll really stick to it,probably because im enjoying it like i did when i very first started.
i first began training seriously when i was 16.

[guycharding]

I started in the gym about a year ago
I want to try and keep it up for as long as i can
i used to be 49kg, now i am 68kg

[guycharding]

i have not yet started training hardcore like with all the diet, but i will soon, for the body challange
Are u doing the 10 week body challange?

[henry4]

Started when i was 16, thought that was a young age to start, i see 14 year old boys benching huge amounts, its massively competetive out there!!!

[PerTerram]

I've always gone through phases of training...wanted to be a royal marine when I was 16...trained like a demon and failed the medical....got fat, went travelling, got fit (more through backpacking round 3rd world countries and not being able to afford to eat enough calories! :) ), came back and worked in a bar then an office - got fat....reapplied for marines when i was 22, couldnt run half a mile, could do 4 press ups and half a pull up. 6 months of hard graft and i got in the marines. Left the marines last year - went abroad lived a party life for a few months, got fat, came home, unemployed, got fatter, laboured for a mate, got stronger but constantly ate takeaways etc and drank so stayed fat....moved, met a girl, got fit but kept weight on due to drinking/eating out all the time. Split with girl - girl got back with her x (he's ripped)...the red training mist descended and I started to strip....lost 2 1/2 stone in 2 months and am now about to start the 10 week challenge. I've been eating to put on excess to see better results so at the moment I'm fat fit! :)

oh and I'm now 28

[Markroach]

Ive been training on and off for two years due to injury, but now i actually enjoy going to the gym it also helps to have someone to go with