It was not a person but an event. if this wasn't anonymous i wouldn't be saying this, but when i was 13/14 my mums boyfriend at the time one night got pissed and decided to kick off on my mum and I, he threw me against the wall and put a boot in on me. Since then I vowed to be the biggest freak around so i could simply be so intimidating no one would want to start on me.
It was not a person but an event. if this wasn't anonymous i wouldn't be saying this, but when i was 13/14 my mums boyfriend at the time one night got pissed and decided to kick off on my mum and I, he threw me against the wall and put a boot in on me. Since then I vowed to be the biggest freak around so i could simply be so intimidating no one would want to start on me.
believe it or not, Steve Reeves, he was hercules in the italian movies..... I thought he was huge, well 35 years or so ago..... but i wa atracted to his symmetry and physique....
i am still into symmetry, not bulk. i want my calves, arms and neck to be same, the ratio between waist and hips, etc..... nice sweeping quads, maybe more sissy squats or something)...
during my days of bodybuilding 30 years ago, when bodybuilding wasnt the in thing to do, I'd gravitate toward pics of bodybuilders who had grace and symmetry.. Frank Zane without dowubt, before his Olympia win.... I'd look at Arnold and think he was huge , same with Lou, I admired their physiques but i wanted to look like Zane and Reeves....
I think for me it was a mix of superhero's, watching wrestling, action films, and old pictures of arnold that started it for me. I remember seeing an old picture of him on the beach holding some fitness model above his head when i was a bit younger and thought - that's what i want (both the muscle mass/body and the fitness model lol)
It was watching the X-Men cartoons of the 80s and Batman cartoons of the early 90s. Batman had a massive gym in his batcave, and he kicked serious ass. That and Arnold and my dad, who even with is crazy job cranked out a few reps of a different bodypart each day every morning on some big dumbells he had laying around.
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