What Inspired You Brehs To Start Going To The Gym?

[phcitywarrior]

I wasn't seeing it though...bro said LA/Miami makes you reassess what it is to be aesthetic...in my time there (LA), as a general statement, no, that's too strong of a statement. Now if I were to be posted up along the boardwalk where calisthenic monsters and bodybuilders flex, sure.

Ehhh, LA is big and is very car centric. But within certain pockets, eg West Hollywood, Beverly Hills etc the floor for aesthetics is definitely higher. No two ways about it breh.

South Beach Miami is very different from Ft Lauderdale etc

SF has people being "fit" from walking and thus being lighter than the middle of the country, but it wasn't a city of borderline crossfit physiques.

I mentioned SF folks being fit not in a gym/lifting manner but from lifestyle. Walking, cycling, hiking etc.

A lot of social activities are centered around fitness eg runs clubs.

My thing is when absolute statements are made about a city it should be immediate/inescapable. I had this same issue on here when I said I found the "LA 6 = Anywhere Else 10 woman" overblown. I shouldn't need a dozen trips or to be within a half-mile of a postal box to get it.

The peak is higher but I wasn't seeing a higher floor of fitness.

I haven’t explored LA as comprehensively as I should considering I’m here in SF so I won’t speak on that area.

But for SF, the fitness floor is definitely higher than other parts of the country. Geography, city build and weather play a big role in that.

 

[UpNext]

My pop had me and my brother in there at 5:30am 5 days a week once we turned 10. The habit was burned into me by the time I graduated High School.

 

[Methodical]

My health cause of heart disease and blood clots. I had to change my diet, stop drinking alcohol, stop smoking weed. I've become a gym rat. Sober for almost 5 years.


I look so young, nobody believed my age. They thought I was in my late 20s.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Looked in the mirror one day and said wow you look disgusting and decided to never look that way again.


Got introduced to David Goggins thru my book club and set me into overdrive.


Goggins is a dope human btw

 

[Shadow King]

Ehhh, LA is big and is very car centric. But within certain pockets, eg West Hollywood, Beverly Hills etc the floor for aesthetics is definitely higher. No two ways about it breh.

South Beach Miami is very different from Ft Lauderdale etc


I mentioned SF folks being fit not in a gym/lifting manner but from lifestyle. Walking, cycling, hiking etc.

A lot of social activities are centered around fitness eg runs clubs.



I haven’t explored LA as comprehensively as I should considering I’m here in SF so I won’t speak on that area.

But for SF, the fitness floor is definitely higher than other parts of the country. Geography, city build and weather play a big role in that.

You're proving my point about LA. If I have to sit in certain pockets and the carcentric culture takes away the walking/mobility aspect, the aesthetic floor isn't higher. The aesthetic penthouse is more populated.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

I wanted to be more dominant on the court and stronger overall

 

[Macallik86]

Inspirational thread

Gonna start working out more moving forward

 

[Mike809]

Nothing. I just started going one day randomly while I was in the military, and never looked back.

I went before that , but never took it seriously.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I kid you not… this morning was chest day for me and I was doing my incline dumbbell press. I’ve got my earphones in while I’m resting between sets and suddenly I get a tap on the shoulder.

I turn to my side and some cute little Arab lady says:

“those are really big.”

I said “excuse me?”

She pointed to the weights “those dumbbells. How do you lift so heavy?”

I replied “Oh! Just years of practice. That’s all.”

Her: “I can tell by your arms.” And she squeezed my bicep. She then tries to lift one of my dumbbells and struggles. “See? I can barely lift it.”

I had to. I’m not a single man anymore but boy if I was…

Literally the day after I make this thread. The universe is funny like that.

 

[Neuromancer]

Too many martial arts films.

 

[Krs2]

Damn thecoli is full of in shape nikkas. If there's ever another coli meet up I gotta make sure my girl ain't around

 

[phcitywarrior]

You're proving my point about LA. If I have to sit in certain pockets and the carcentric culture takes away the walking/mobility aspect, the aesthetic floor isn't higher. The aesthetic penthouse is more populated.

You know what, I haven’t explored LA enough so let me not talk. SF, the floor is deff higher.

We can agree that the LA peak is definitely higher, too

 

[Shadow King]

You know what, I haven’t explored LA enough so let me not talk. SF, the floor is deff higher.

We can agree that the LA peak is definitely higher, too

I need to go back to SF, but I'm not sure what the definition of aesthetic floor is. Breh is speaking from a place that's 40% obese, so for him yes. I'm surprised you're saying this as a former DMV person because the capitol has the lowest obesity rate in the country.

Of course an average height man who is 175 and walks/cycles as the standard is more aesthetic than his 230 pound/30% BF standard counterpart in the Bible Belt, but I guess I'm also skewed by using gym goer/active person standards, as well as being from a fairly fit state.

It takes more than simply having low BF to me to say the floor is higher.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I mentioned SF folks being fit not in a gym/lifting manner but from lifestyle. Walking, cycling, hiking etc.

Yup.. Pretty much this. I spent a month in the financial district of San Fran a few years back and probably saw 4 to 6 people that could legitimately be classified as overweight, not including my coworkers at the time…..

I spent about 10 days in LA…. and another 4 in Calabasas….. and it was easy to tell that fitness was part of those cities lifestyles….San Diego gave me that impression to…

 

[High Art]

I used to model suits and clothes as a side gig (nothing major, just smaller gigs) when I was younger. As I got older, I sort of fell off weight-wise, despite still looking decent. One day I tried on an old suit I used for an old shoot and was appalled at how I looked. It sort of fit but damn, I was looking as fukk and I was too young at the time be looking that bad. So in short, I wanted to look like my GQ self again.