LifeIsHeavyLIFT
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Greeting my fellow iron bro,
I have been posting a lot and getting to know this site and itts members and the one word that comes to mind is "Impressed." allow me a second word and I'd throw "Extremely" right in front of it. You guys got something, and I am feeling like I found a home.
So I figured I'd ask a question I love to hear bc it tells me a lot about the individual answering and the thread as a whole gives a good idea of the forum demographics. Remember, tons of people here for a ton of different reasons...
So I guess my question is, what do you do as an athlete, ie BB, MMA, life or appearance, football etc. And even more important, what drives you? What makes you say know to the hot double date bc you are mid-cut, what makes you get up 4 hours before work to lift, what makes you eat like its a job?
Ill go first, but I am going to give a quickie answer. You guys can drag it all outta me with time, I always slip. Lol
But I found lifting when I was 15. Parents got me a set in the basement. Wasn't love at first site though, I messed around til about 17. Still, never having lifted much or even smelled a supplement, I was 6'1 240lbs of pure muscle by my sophomore year of high school. That summer and my junior/senior seasons I had every big school looking at me. Played safety/LB and already ran a 4.5 at 16. No BS. That summer I found gear through an agents "helper" and ended my high school career at 6'2 260 and faster if anything.
Signed with a major SEC school full ride. Played in every one of our games as a freshman and started 9-10. Had 12 sacks that year. Still I lifted cuz I loved it, not for football. The smell of a gym in the morning, a fellow lifter noticing how big or strong you'd gotten. I loved it all. I actually completed 2 years of SEC ball and was a sure fire 1st round.
But my brother was killed in action in some shitbird valley in Afganistan and I joined the Marines. I had unique attributes, besides my physical ones. Ihad qualified for med school while playing sec football, I spoke Arabic and some Afgahni. I knew Arab culture. And I was raised by my dad and his 4 brothers, all special forces. Spent nearly 5 year on one assignment of another, only stopped when they made me, I was born for it. And I love my country.
Coming from an sec looker room I brought PEDs with me to my specific unit. Not commenting on any others. But our enhancements saved our lives on many occasional, that and a lifetime of lifting. Now I get back home and the wheels just come off. I had acquired an exotic disease of one of my adventures and it looked like it was def gonna kill me. In 8 months on intense medical care, I dropped from 6'2.5 255 lbs down to 140lbs. ( it was like the holocaust pics). They finally figured out my illness and saved me by probably 2-3 weeks.
At what should have been a good time, I found out I had brain cancer. 6mm pituitary adenoma. The whole thing broke me for the past two years. Broke me.
But to answer my original question... In college I did it for the love of not the game, but myself. I loved to play dominant football. In the military, I did it bc it helped me and my mates survive. Now I am doing it to forget what dying is like. To reclaim this thing that's been my life for so many versions of my life. The one constant. Fortunately, now I have all the money I need and can lift and work and juice as I please. I am currently lifting for love of the sport and love of myself.
God I missed the smell of iron and sweat in the morning. Look forward to any replies. No need to write a book as I tend to, but feel free to. I just love this bord and want to learn more about the guys I am gonna be dealing with. Hope this is okay for steroids forum. These are the guys I want to see it, and it is about why you juice, is it a sport, a goal, just too long doing it to change...
Hope this gets some replies, I know the can go bad for news but I hope guys have seen I care and have something to add to this board and will therefore humor me.
Thx
hk
I have been posting a lot and getting to know this site and itts members and the one word that comes to mind is "Impressed." allow me a second word and I'd throw "Extremely" right in front of it. You guys got something, and I am feeling like I found a home.
So I figured I'd ask a question I love to hear bc it tells me a lot about the individual answering and the thread as a whole gives a good idea of the forum demographics. Remember, tons of people here for a ton of different reasons...
So I guess my question is, what do you do as an athlete, ie BB, MMA, life or appearance, football etc. And even more important, what drives you? What makes you say know to the hot double date bc you are mid-cut, what makes you get up 4 hours before work to lift, what makes you eat like its a job?
Ill go first, but I am going to give a quickie answer. You guys can drag it all outta me with time, I always slip. Lol
But I found lifting when I was 15. Parents got me a set in the basement. Wasn't love at first site though, I messed around til about 17. Still, never having lifted much or even smelled a supplement, I was 6'1 240lbs of pure muscle by my sophomore year of high school. That summer and my junior/senior seasons I had every big school looking at me. Played safety/LB and already ran a 4.5 at 16. No BS. That summer I found gear through an agents "helper" and ended my high school career at 6'2 260 and faster if anything.
Signed with a major SEC school full ride. Played in every one of our games as a freshman and started 9-10. Had 12 sacks that year. Still I lifted cuz I loved it, not for football. The smell of a gym in the morning, a fellow lifter noticing how big or strong you'd gotten. I loved it all. I actually completed 2 years of SEC ball and was a sure fire 1st round.
But my brother was killed in action in some shitbird valley in Afganistan and I joined the Marines. I had unique attributes, besides my physical ones. Ihad qualified for med school while playing sec football, I spoke Arabic and some Afgahni. I knew Arab culture. And I was raised by my dad and his 4 brothers, all special forces. Spent nearly 5 year on one assignment of another, only stopped when they made me, I was born for it. And I love my country.
Coming from an sec looker room I brought PEDs with me to my specific unit. Not commenting on any others. But our enhancements saved our lives on many occasional, that and a lifetime of lifting. Now I get back home and the wheels just come off. I had acquired an exotic disease of one of my adventures and it looked like it was def gonna kill me. In 8 months on intense medical care, I dropped from 6'2.5 255 lbs down to 140lbs. ( it was like the holocaust pics). They finally figured out my illness and saved me by probably 2-3 weeks.
At what should have been a good time, I found out I had brain cancer. 6mm pituitary adenoma. The whole thing broke me for the past two years. Broke me.
But to answer my original question... In college I did it for the love of not the game, but myself. I loved to play dominant football. In the military, I did it bc it helped me and my mates survive. Now I am doing it to forget what dying is like. To reclaim this thing that's been my life for so many versions of my life. The one constant. Fortunately, now I have all the money I need and can lift and work and juice as I please. I am currently lifting for love of the sport and love of myself.
God I missed the smell of iron and sweat in the morning. Look forward to any replies. No need to write a book as I tend to, but feel free to. I just love this bord and want to learn more about the guys I am gonna be dealing with. Hope this is okay for steroids forum. These are the guys I want to see it, and it is about why you juice, is it a sport, a goal, just too long doing it to change...
Hope this gets some replies, I know the can go bad for news but I hope guys have seen I care and have something to add to this board and will therefore humor me.
Thx
hk