support from friends, not family!!

[BUSTINOUT]

Originally posted by Pierzin
Tomorrow is hams and quads. I can't wait. One day closer to chest & triceps again. hell, I might even skip the wait.

Make a plan and stick to it.

As for the support from friends and family, don't sweat it. They will come around some day. And if they don't, by that time you won't care anyway. I worked with a girl that used to give me hell about my training and diet(I guess she thought her opinion mattered to me). She asked me why I focus so much on that stuff. I told her so I never end up looking like her disgusting husband. That shut her up. lol It cracks me up to think my folks used to think this was a phase I would grow out of back when I was 17. Here I am 38 and still have not grown out. After my first bbing contest in my teens, I think they got a better understanding. Besides, depending on how old your folks are, you have to realize, there was not time in their life to spend focusing on stuff like this. They were too busy making a living and supporting a family.

 

[Spottieottie]

Yea that's my favorite day too. Either that or biceps. You know you're on the right track when you look forward to working out.

 

[Pierzin]

Thanks LAM

Here's something crazy. One of my friends from waaaaay back, who boasts about being fat, recently started working out again. He's freakin hysterical!

Damn, a couple of years ago I worked out religiously, then for two years I didn't, and now that's all I care about, until the fall.

 

[chronic]

i kinda get support... my mom thinks its good i'm workin out but she doesnt like tha fact that i'm bulkin up, her and all my (female) cousins think gainin 30LBs mean gainin 30LBs of fat, i try explain it to them all tha time what tha difference is, but i think tha reason they dont believe me is cuz any time they gain weight its all fat
all my other cuzins(men) dont really care they jus wanna see me fail so i dont get stronger than them.
ie: i was doin situps with 25LBs on my chest and my cousin thought it would be funny if he put 25 more on my chest, i said F-U and kept goin, he put 10 more LBs on my and said F-U 2! i kept goin and said F-U 2! he put 10 more LBs on and said HAHA F-U! i kept goin and said HAHA F-U 2! i think he relized i was doin situps with 70LBs on my chest cuz he walked away, lol i said where u goin put more weight on hahahaha but he jus kept walkin. kinda happy he threw all that weight on tho! i never woulda tried usin 70LBs b4 that
another perfect example is if they see me drop the bar on my chest doin bench they jus laugh, only one of my cuzins will actually take tha bar off me, F*CK THEM!!! now half tha reason i work out is jus to laugh at them when i do 30 one arm pushups HAHA who's laughin now heheheh

 

[Paynne]

My wife is all against it. Always has been. Mostly because she doesn't want me to be in shape while she eats her bowl of ice cream every night before bed. Of course when there's a body builder guy on the beach she can't take her eyes off of him.

Acually it motivates me even more. When she was against me going back to school it motivated me so much that I worked so hard I was just shy of a 4.0 average. Is that wrong?

I do it for me and no one else.

 

[Pierzin]

thats funny paynne

I think I having an indirect effect on people around me. A guy at work just started working out again after I talked about it to him, and another guy in my company lost a bunch of weight.
Its funny.
thinkin about lookin good keeps me goin.

-peace -p

 

[ClintZ28]

I get support from most friends, but I'd say 1/3 of them give me a hard time about it. They bitch about how often I eat, and some accuse me of using steroids, not because they think I do, but just to piss me out. You know how guys like to rag on other guys.
My girlfriend has dated only scrawny guys, and doesn't openly say that she likes me getting larger.
My parents give me a very hard time about it, and are concerned that I don't put my academics as a priority. My dad says I'm like a baby because I need to eat so often. heh
Most of my friends want my build, but they don't aspire at all to get as big as I intend to get. Most people think I look perfect at around 175lbs and lean. I think I look pathetic, and I'm going to get up to around 225lbs. heh, I don't give a fuck what they think.

 

[ClintZ28]

BTW, I think you should go for it. I think it helps you in so many ways, and you can get a lot of respect from others when they see your dedication. You are around 129lbs? Damn. I started out at 132lbs. 18 months later I'm 190lbs. You can do it! Stick with it, it will pay off, I promise.