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dolce
03-06-2007, 02:12 AM
how long have you been into fitness?
when did you get serious about training:flex:
how long have you been into fitness?
when did you get serious about training:flex:
One year ago last week. :woohoo:
Noel Clark
03-06-2007, 02:20 AM
Serious about training....10 months ago
Always been an athlete though.
Tearose
03-06-2007, 02:21 AM
two and a half years ago I have always been serious, but I am really serious now:hehe:
Always an athlete.....
Serious about fitness, 8 months ago after the birth of my third child. I looked like a beached whale.:runaway:
Christine_99
03-06-2007, 02:48 AM
About a year and a half for me :)
Jeff Rage
03-06-2007, 03:17 AM
12+ years
I started after I graduated college - I got tired of being fat. When reading up on how to go about getting into shape, I learned about the benefits of weight training and the rest is history.
but I'm still fat
Blondell
03-06-2007, 11:30 AM
I got into fitness 12 years ago. I didn't get serious until 4 years ago.
Patricia
03-06-2007, 11:37 AM
Since I was 17. I hit the gym and lifted (relatively) heavy before school @ 5:30am.
I've fallen off the wagon here and there with my eating, but never really with training since.
I'll be 25 Monday. :(
I've always lifted (with some lapses). I took a weight training class in high school...I was 14 or 15. I was the only girl in there at first...the next semester we had a couple...and a little more after that. I was hooked the minute I started b/c I was naturally pretty strong for my size...and you know...the guy thing. I loved hanging out with the guys. :yippee:
In college, I kept lifting, but not really seriously...just to get some exercise and not gain that freshman 15. I didn't. After college, I belonged to a gym wherever I lived, and then after getting married, we bought a bench, some weights, and an exercise bike. That kept me sane after long days of working for a CPA firm.
During pregnancy, I was determined not to gain a TON of weight and lose muscle, so I kept lifting...not heavy, but something...and I walked, ran, or rode my bike, too. Afterwards, I used it to get back in shape. (4 times).
Ok, but seriously...it was after my 4th child, about 2 years ago. That's when I started trying to lift really heavy...not that I wasn't lifting heavy before, but I was doing the standard 3 sets of 10-12, so my weights were not as heavy. And I also started doing the dreaded intervals and was really trying to shape my body. A body recomp., if you will...not that I was doing it correctly, but that's what I was aiming for...more muscle, less fat.
Then, when I got as lean as I thought I could get (around 102), I started with some small bulks...to try to put on some muscle. I never did them for more than about 2 weeks, though. I put on a little size.
Fast forward to last September...I started prepping for my contest with Erik. That is the leanest I have ever been. Still is. :lol3: Then over the winter we did a bulk to put on some back size....now 3 weeks out from show.
WOW...that's way more than you wanted to know, isn't it? lol I don't know what inspired me this morning...I guess I am procrastinating on running. LOL.
grew up an athlete.
starting weight training 7-8 years ago.
radgirl
03-06-2007, 02:49 PM
11+ year for me.
jackieleigh
03-06-2007, 05:16 PM
I was never an athlete until I started running my first year in college on and off, so I would say I started then (7 years ago). My junior year of college I got more serious about it, started running regularly and began to learn about nutrition. In 2004 I got more serious about fitness and trained and ran my first full marathon. About 2 years ago I learned about weight training and started slowly adding it in. I have now run 2 full marathons, a half marathon, a million 5ks, and I hope to compete in figure within a few years at most.
absolut_blonde
03-06-2007, 05:33 PM
About 2 years. I lifted for about a year before that, as well, but I had no idea what I was doing and I was lifting pretty light.
fitmommy
03-06-2007, 06:29 PM
I got my first job in a gym (family fitness center) in 1980. I started getting serious about fitness then.
I was super skinny, what you would call a hard gainer. I was shown that lifting heavy would make me "curveyer' (is that a word?:)) It did, and I liked it.
Ofcourse there have been lapses. Most recently TTC, pregnancy,nursing, moving across country, bla bla. I took about 4-5 yrs off, relaxed, did only yoga and gained 15lbs:( and my body comp completely changed.
Been really back on track now for about a yr. AND loving it!!
I will be 44 next month. and I plan on this healthy living thing for the rest of my life.:lol:
mich56
03-06-2007, 08:47 PM
I have been an athlete my entire life (well since I was 4)...got into lifting at 20. I kinda staggered off it when I moved and had two kids. Got back into lifting almost two years ago...but my committment hadn't been there enough to say that I was serious. Serious for losing fat, yes, but not to the point of *thinking* I could compete in bb.
And now I am SERIOUS about competing!
dolce
03-07-2007, 01:07 AM
I've always lifted (with some lapses). I took a weight training class in high school...I was 14 or 15. I was the only girl in there at first...the next semester we had a couple...and a little more after that. I was hooked the minute I started b/c I was naturally pretty strong for my size...and you know...the guy thing. I loved hanging out with the guys. :yippee:
In college, I kept lifting, but not really seriously...just to get some exercise and not gain that freshman 15. I didn't. After college, I belonged to a gym wherever I lived, and then after getting married, we bought a bench, some weights, and an exercise bike. That kept me sane after long days of working for a CPA firm.
During pregnancy, I was determined not to gain a TON of weight and lose muscle, so I kept lifting...not heavy, but something...and I walked, ran, or rode my bike, too. Afterwards, I used it to get back in shape. (4 times).
Ok, but seriously...it was after my 4th child, about 2 years ago. That's when I started trying to lift really heavy...not that I wasn't lifting heavy before, but I was doing the standard 3 sets of 10-12, so my weights were not as heavy. And I also started doing the dreaded intervals and was really trying to shape my body. A body recomp., if you will...not that I was doing it correctly, but that's what I was aiming for...more muscle, less fat.
Then, when I got as lean as I thought I could get (around 102), I started with some small bulks...to try to put on some muscle. I never did them for more than about 2 weeks, though. I put on a little size.
Fast forward to last September...I started prepping for my contest with Erik. That is the leanest I have ever been. Still is. :lol3: Then over the winter we did a bulk to put on some back size....now 3 weeks out from show.
WOW...that's way more than you wanted to know, isn't it? lol I don't know what inspired me this morning...I guess I am procrastinating on running. LOL.
:bowdown: for having 4 kids, you look great!
have you done more leaning out than bulking?
how much do you weigh?
I've been training for about 10 years, on and off. I think I took about 7 years off when I had my kids and started back about this time last year. I've learned alot and plan to just go forward. Now that my kids are older, it's neat to see them want to be a part of it too. They (well not the middle one:lol:) ask all kinds of questions, want to see pictures of athletes and 'big girl muscles' and ask about food all the time. They even want to know what to do to work out and how much protein they should eat and they're still so young. Having them has certainly helped me stay accountable.
:bowdown: for having 4 kids, you look great!
have you done more leaning out than bulking?
how much do you weigh?
:bitch: :lol:
I've always stayed just pretty fit until the last couple years...so, now I've had a couple periods of bulking and leaning out. Most of my time has probably been spent in maintenance. :lol3:
I weigh generally around 108-110 nowdays. But I've been as far down as 102 and as high up as 117 (over the winter with a bulk) I'm guessing comp weight will be 105-107 this time.
The first time I worked out with weights was in 1988 in my 2nd year of university when I wanted to get rid of surplus weight and had heard that lifting weights would work. However, with a boring 3x15 schedule and all machine weights I soon lost interest. Yet, I did notice that I was a pretty strong chick.
Took up lifting again a few years after I had been bitten by the cycling bug in 1995 and spent around 5000 miles/year on the road bike and got angry about lacking speed. So I thought to improve strength by lifting. Of course I only worked my legs and did nothing for upper body strength, which.. typically got that emaciated skinny-fat look so typical for cyclists.
Fast forwards to 2002 when a friend introduced me to a fitness forum and I got all that info on lifting and nutrition. Ever so slowly the focus of my interest shifted from cycling to lifting. However, the fat loss was very slow, mostly because of overtraining/undereating.
I got a fresh start again in 2004 when I was hit by a very serious disease and was no longer able to ride my bicycle. And eventually it became a real all-time consuming passion. Right now I'm intentionally trying to be less passionate about it as I'm starting to see that "less = more" .
rogmel
03-07-2007, 08:16 PM
i played sports forever.....but grew up fat....
into fitness for 20 years......weights and cardio.....more heavily into cardio......increased weight training significantly 4 years ago......and then after baby #3 and cancer surgery in fall of 05, decided there is no time like the present to plan and prep for a show.......so here i am ....
chicca
03-11-2007, 07:34 AM
i've played every sport under the sun...have been doing so ever since i can remember. i ended up with very strong quads but under-developed hams-i have no clue how, but it happened! overall i've always been very fit.
FF...destroyed my knees and broke a few bones, then realised i'd developed a cardiovascular prob when i was 21. took 2 years of doing nothing to heal all the above and gained a lot of fat. but thankfully the massive quads are still there, so that's one less thing to work on!
coming back in to sport after all that time off was scary and i realised i needed to learn more. so July 2006 i started learning about proper nutrition (which turned out to be the opposite of what i thought it was) and got introduced to weight training.
i'd say i'm just starting to really get serious about it because now i understand a lot more than i did before :rolleyes:
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