Why do you train? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

gal · 12-05-2003, 07:53 PM

Just wondering what was your idea in the first place.. For me it was not looking like a geek, now it's more for being fit as I'm training mma.

sailor · 12-05-2003, 08:30 PM

Several reasons. Its a good stress reliever. It feels good after a workout. I also like to keep in shape so that when I go home from school on break, I am in shape to go cycling.

CandleInTheDark · 12-05-2003, 08:49 PM

1. It makes me feel and look great.

2. It helps me perform in sports

Plan9Senior · 12-06-2003, 02:17 AM

I work out to look AND feel good, but what it all boils down to is looking good, so... I chose 'looking good'

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forseti-6 · 12-06-2003, 07:28 AM

1. Because I have to be in top shape for the Army
2. Because working out gives you so much more energy during the day
3. It's nice to look in the mirror and say "hey I look good"

rogue49 · 12-06-2003, 07:28 AM

To be honest...foremost in my mind is "looking good"

However, I do appreciate feeling good, the health benefits & the strength.

Loup · 12-06-2003, 12:38 PM

It all started for sporting reasons.

It is now health & looks.

chrisg299 · 12-06-2003, 08:01 PM

For me basically to look good and be healthy

but probably couldn't imagine a better feeling then having an ex of yours that dumped you and you aren't too fond of anymore suddenly want you back again after she sees how you look now :-D (of course you wouldn't get back with them but thats when you tell em to kiss your ass! :-P) lol that's just one of my reasons for working out thought you'd people find that the most interesting :-P

Chuckles · 12-07-2003, 01:19 AM

A major reason is for sport, but there's that part of me that just wants to look real good lol. Greed. :P

SiNai · 12-07-2003, 10:14 PM

To look good and feel good as well, but also to let out the stresses of the day. In high school I played football and it was a great stress reliever, but working out is the next best thing

numist · 12-07-2003, 11:09 PM

I dont touch freeweights, because my aim isnt to build up, most of the time its keeping slimmed down and fast, but either way I chose feeling good, because that was my initial goal when I first started moving my activity to a sports base.

The fact that it made me look better and made the women fawn over me was a side effect I will not complain about

OK, maybe just my woman...

pappymojo · 12-08-2003, 07:18 AM

I fell hard for this one girl. Took her out a couple of times, but then she told me she wasn't ready for a relationship. At the same time, I was having trouble at work. Got overlooked for a promotion. Went into a severe depression. Couldn't sleep at night. Felt like no one saw my worth. Had millions of thoughts spinning around my head.

I started working out hard every day just to fall asleep at night. I was really pushing myself to the point of exhaustion.

After a while, though, I started to feel and to look much better. I lost my beer belly and my skin looks better. I had lasik surgery to correct my eyesight and I had oral surgery to correct an impacted tooth that was giving my headaches.

It's almost a year later, I look great and am totally addicted to working out and looking good.

Still never got over the girl. She's sweet and charming and sexy, but she doesn't know it.

RHix613 · 12-08-2003, 12:37 PM

I started training for sports, but that was 15 years ago. Then I trained to look good, that didn't work, so I'm stuck with working out to feel good. I guess its working...

JohnnyRock · 12-08-2003, 01:25 PM

it used to be to look good [and still is to a point] but with a 9 month old son, my priorities shifted and now it is more so I can play with him while he's young and be around to see him grow up...

EleqTrizi'T · 12-08-2003, 03:35 PM

I started because I was 100lbs overweight, my blood pressure was high, and my cholesterol was high.

I'm now just 40 lbs overweight, and blood and cholesterol is good. I also now have a ton of muscle.

There is no real option for me, because I did it for the overall health reason, which kinda falls under "Feel good" and "loose weight". So I choose loose weight.

mfe · 12-08-2003, 06:30 PM

I got started right after breaking up with a girlfriend. Maybe because I wanted to look good since I was back on the market...or maybe because of all the spare time I had. Now I'm just hooked on that great feeling that comes after a tough workout.

skier · 12-08-2003, 07:49 PM

i train so that i will never lose again.

hy_ · 12-08-2003, 08:07 PM

look good and gain strenght.

Sleepyjack · 12-09-2003, 03:48 AM

I definitley originally started working out when i was about 17 i think, primarily to look good and fuel my narcissism.

Although that's vastly changed. Back then i was more impressionable by popular culture, whcih is pretty sick and i generally wanted brand name everything and to look like all the hollywood stars or whetever.
Anywho, when i was 18, all that vastly changed and i no longer really care much about any of that shit. Nowadays my workout is to feel fucking good, release agression, get re-energised and to build strength/fitness. All this was coupled with my growing interest in nutrition.
So i am sorta inclined to say feeling good, although now i do supplement my workout to my basketball game and do stuff realted to that. so it's pretty much a tie there, followed by building strength, looking good and losing weight? but eh? i don't want to loose weight, lol.

They say look good, feel good?
what a crock, more like feel good, look good. Cause you know how you feel, moreso than how you look?
That's why you ask others how you look, or other tell you how you look and you tell others, or others ask you how you feel, cause they don't know?

I can't believe they got that, that way around?

Sho Nuff · 12-09-2003, 01:45 PM

Looking good helps, but its mostly about feeling good. Not only are my energy levels higher, but Im generally in a better mood and just feel healthier. I also love the feeling of working out to exhaustion.

Now im training for law enforcement and olympic MMA, but that came as a result of training for the sake of the art and the skills of self defence. Competition was an afterthought.

Iliftrocks · 12-12-2003, 11:23 AM

Because if I didn't wear myself out lifting large things, I'd probably have to kill every bastid that looks at me sideways......

Stress relief is wonderful stuff. I don't know for sure if it has really made me more attractive to women, some women don't like big guys, luckily I like women that do.......

yournamehere · 12-13-2003, 01:34 PM

The top one - I want to turn my "loose weight" into tight weight.

AfterBurn · 12-13-2003, 03:30 PM

all of those choices alltie into 1...Working out makes you look good and that makes you loose weight and make you feel good, building strength is the same as looking good

hobo · 12-13-2003, 09:00 PM

Look good and feel good.

H12 · 12-14-2003, 10:32 AM

I started lifting weights because of football, but now I do it to look good and gain strength.

InTeGrA77 · 12-15-2003, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by djp
It all started for sporting reasons.

It is now health & looks.

I agree, but if there would have been an "all of the above" option, that would have been my #1 choice...

I started lifting weights at first because of the sports that I was in, and I always wanted to be in top condition. I'm also verrry competitive when it comes to certain things, but then I realized that I actually enjoyed it. I got a lot of satisfaction whenever I did it. Now, I go whenever I get the chance, its kinda become rather addicting.

aphex140 · 12-15-2003, 08:49 AM

It started with my girlfriend saying we were becoming slobs ? So we joined a gym.

She has now stopped going and I have stayed on increasing the freq that I go.

I found it hard to get motivated to go but once there I was fine.

I now enjoy it as time to shut my mind down and work up a sweat, How ever still chasing the six pack -0 I think I wil have to cut out the four packs of beer.

It does make you feel damn good.

eotlemac · 12-15-2003, 12:30 PM

I couldnt pick one...i do it for all those things......

when i get up off my lazy ass and do it.

a1t3r3g0 · 12-16-2003, 08:19 PM

I started so that I could look good, now I keep it up so that I feel good.

seizei · 12-18-2003, 02:40 AM

I train to supplement martial arts training and competition. And to look good

monkeydriven · 12-26-2003, 08:44 AM

Because biking is an obsession and you need to be in shape to perform at the highest level.

herostar · 12-26-2003, 11:36 AM

I like training becasue not only does it keep me looking half-way decent, it keeps me in shape for tennis and snowboarding. I also love how I feel when I work out.

almostaugust · 12-26-2003, 05:20 PM

I voted for 'Feeling Good' because although i like to look good, the strength component, and the fact that i do alot of training as a supplement to another sport- feeling good, is what keeps me going.
I train because sport has always been there for me in my life. It has been the one constant in the face of a whole lot of shit. I train because at some deep caveman level, i like to compete against fellow humans. I train because i dont want to have any regrets in my life, i want to be the best i can be.

lions20 · 01-01-2004, 09:53 AM

I workout to build strength and feel good.

Strange Famous · 01-02-2004, 01:53 PM

lose weight.

Im already pretty strong, Im just too fat.

eschmidt · 01-04-2004, 11:00 PM

I think to train for looking good (looking like a model...) is very hard. I think I depends how your body is build when you are born.
I personally train to feel good.....

EleqTrizi'T · 01-05-2004, 11:03 PM

You know, I was thinking about this....

When I started, I trained for health/losing weight (same thing to me).

Now, I just train for the sake of training. I enjoy it, tremendously. I wish I played a sport so I'd have an excuse to train. That'd be great.

View Poll Results: If you train weights, why do you train?
Loose weight	4	5.26%
Looking good	27	35.53%
Feeling good	29	38.16%
As a supplement to another sport	8	10.53%
Just building strength	8	10.53%
Voters: 76. You may not vote on this poll

12-05-2003, 07:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
gal Insane	Why do you train? Just wondering what was your idea in the first place.. For me it was not looking like a geek, now it's more for being fit as I'm training mma.

12-05-2003, 08:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	Several reasons. Its a good stress reliever. It feels good after a workout. I also like to keep in shape so that when I go home from school on break, I am in shape to go cycling. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

12-05-2003, 08:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
CandleInTheDark Addict Location: Where the music's loudest	1. It makes me feel and look great. 2. It helps me perform in sports __________________ Where there is doubt there is freedom.

12-06-2003, 07:28 AM	#5 (permalink)
forseti-6 Existentialist Location: New York City	1. Because I have to be in top shape for the Army 2. Because working out gives you so much more energy during the day 3. It's nice to look in the mirror and say "hey I look good" __________________ "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

12-06-2003, 02:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
Plan9Senior Banned Location: Orange County, California	I work out to look AND feel good, but what it all boils down to is looking good, so... I chose 'looking good' .

12-06-2003, 07:28 AM	#6 (permalink)
rogue49 Loser	To be honest...foremost in my mind is "looking good" However, I do appreciate feeling good, the health benefits & the strength.

12-06-2003, 12:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
Loup Pup no More Location: Voted the Best	It all started for sporting reasons. It is now health & looks. __________________ "If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it." ~ Frank Tyger

12-06-2003, 08:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
chrisg299 Tilted	For me basically to look good and be healthy but probably couldn't imagine a better feeling then having an ex of yours that dumped you and you aren't too fond of anymore suddenly want you back again after she sees how you look now :-D (of course you wouldn't get back with them but thats when you tell em to kiss your ass! :-P) lol that's just one of my reasons for working out thought you'd people find that the most interesting :-P

12-07-2003, 01:19 AM	#9 (permalink)
Chuckles Insane Location: California	A major reason is for sport, but there's that part of me that just wants to look real good lol. Greed. :P

12-07-2003, 10:14 PM	#10 (permalink)
SiNai Dreams In Digital Location: Iowa	To look good and feel good as well, but also to let out the stresses of the day. In high school I played football and it was a great stress reliever, but working out is the next best thing __________________ I can't seem to remember now What it was like- to live life, before you.. symbiont

12-07-2003, 11:09 PM	#11 (permalink)
numist Banned Location: UCSD, 510.49 miles from my love	I dont touch freeweights, because my aim isnt to build up, most of the time its keeping slimmed down and fast, but either way I chose feeling good, because that was my initial goal when I first started moving my activity to a sports base. The fact that it made me look better and made the women fawn over me was a side effect I will not complain about OK, maybe just my woman...

12-08-2003, 07:18 AM	#12 (permalink)
pappymojo Tilted Location: boston	I fell hard for this one girl. Took her out a couple of times, but then she told me she wasn't ready for a relationship. At the same time, I was having trouble at work. Got overlooked for a promotion. Went into a severe depression. Couldn't sleep at night. Felt like no one saw my worth. Had millions of thoughts spinning around my head. I started working out hard every day just to fall asleep at night. I was really pushing myself to the point of exhaustion. After a while, though, I started to feel and to look much better. I lost my beer belly and my skin looks better. I had lasik surgery to correct my eyesight and I had oral surgery to correct an impacted tooth that was giving my headaches. It's almost a year later, I look great and am totally addicted to working out and looking good. Still never got over the girl. She's sweet and charming and sexy, but she doesn't know it.

12-08-2003, 12:37 PM	#13 (permalink)
RHix613 Tilted	I started training for sports, but that was 15 years ago. Then I trained to look good, that didn't work, so I'm stuck with working out to feel good. I guess its working...

12-08-2003, 01:25 PM	#14 (permalink)
JohnnyRock Addict Location: Taxachussetts	it used to be to look good [and still is to a point] but with a 9 month old son, my priorities shifted and now it is more so I can play with him while he's young and be around to see him grow up... __________________ Not only do I not know the answer...I don't even know what the question is!!!

12-13-2003, 01:34 PM	#22 (permalink)
yournamehere Invisible Location: tentative, at best	The top one - I want to turn my "loose weight" into tight weight. __________________ If you want to avoid 95% of internet spelling errors: "If your ridiculous pants are too loose, you're definitely going to lose them. Tell your two loser friends over there that they're going to lose theirs, too." It won't hurt your fashion sense, either.

12-13-2003, 09:00 PM	#24 (permalink)
hobo Archangel of Change	Look good and feel good.

12-18-2003, 02:40 AM	#30 (permalink)
seizei Purple Monkey Dishwasher Location: CFB Gagetown, NB, CANADA	I train to supplement martial arts training and competition. And to look good __________________ "If you're not weird, you're not interesting". I'm very interesting ... seizei; (adv - Japanese) at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much (far) as possible. (pronounced - say-zay)

12-08-2003, 03:35 PM	#15 (permalink)
EleqTrizi'T Insane	I started because I was 100lbs overweight, my blood pressure was high, and my cholesterol was high. I'm now just 40 lbs overweight, and blood and cholesterol is good. I also now have a ton of muscle. There is no real option for me, because I did it for the overall health reason, which kinda falls under "Feel good" and "loose weight". So I choose loose weight.

12-08-2003, 06:30 PM	#16 (permalink)
mfe Crazy	I got started right after breaking up with a girlfriend. Maybe because I wanted to look good since I was back on the market...or maybe because of all the spare time I had. Now I'm just hooked on that great feeling that comes after a tough workout.

12-08-2003, 07:49 PM	#17 (permalink)
skier Rawr! Location: Edmontania	i train so that i will never lose again. __________________ "Asking a bomb squad if an old bomb is still "real" is not the best thing to do if you want to save it." - denim

12-08-2003, 08:07 PM	#18 (permalink)
hy_ Crazy	look good and gain strenght.

12-09-2003, 03:48 AM	#19 (permalink)
Sleepyjack Fast'n'Bulbous Location: Australia, Perth	I definitley originally started working out when i was about 17 i think, primarily to look good and fuel my narcissism. Although that's vastly changed. Back then i was more impressionable by popular culture, whcih is pretty sick and i generally wanted brand name everything and to look like all the hollywood stars or whetever. Anywho, when i was 18, all that vastly changed and i no longer really care much about any of that shit. Nowadays my workout is to feel fucking good, release agression, get re-energised and to build strength/fitness. All this was coupled with my growing interest in nutrition. So i am sorta inclined to say feeling good, although now i do supplement my workout to my basketball game and do stuff realted to that. so it's pretty much a tie there, followed by building strength, looking good and losing weight? but eh? i don't want to loose weight, lol. They say look good, feel good? what a crock, more like feel good, look good. Cause you know how you feel, moreso than how you look? That's why you ask others how you look, or other tell you how you look and you tell others, or others ask you how you feel, cause they don't know? I can't believe they got that, that way around?

12-09-2003, 01:45 PM	#20 (permalink)
Sho Nuff Addict Location: Harlem	Looking good helps, but its mostly about feeling good. Not only are my energy levels higher, but Im generally in a better mood and just feel healthier. I also love the feeling of working out to exhaustion. Now im training for law enforcement and olympic MMA, but that came as a result of training for the sake of the art and the skills of self defence. Competition was an afterthought. __________________ I know Nietzsche doesnt rhyme with peachy, but you sound like a pretentious prick when you correct me.

12-12-2003, 11:23 AM	#21 (permalink)
Iliftrocks Junkie Location: Near Raleigh, NC	Because if I didn't wear myself out lifting large things, I'd probably have to kill every bastid that looks at me sideways...... Stress relief is wonderful stuff. I don't know for sure if it has really made me more attractive to women, some women don't like big guys, luckily I like women that do....... __________________ bill hicks - "I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."

12-13-2003, 03:30 PM	#23 (permalink)
AfterBurn Psycho	all of those choices alltie into 1...Working out makes you look good and that makes you loose weight and make you feel good, building strength is the same as looking good __________________ smoking weed everyday keeps the doctor away

12-14-2003, 10:32 AM	#25 (permalink)
H12 I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning! Location: K-Town, TN	I started lifting weights because of football, but now I do it to look good and gain strength. __________________ "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

12-15-2003, 08:49 AM	#27 (permalink)
aphex140 Psycho Location: northamptonshire	It started with my girlfriend saying we were becoming slobs ? So we joined a gym. She has now stopped going and I have stayed on increasing the freq that I go. I found it hard to get motivated to go but once there I was fine. I now enjoy it as time to shut my mind down and work up a sweat, How ever still chasing the six pack -0 I think I wil have to cut out the four packs of beer. It does make you feel damn good. __________________ Computers allow us to make more mistakes at a faster rate than any other man-made thing, with the exception of handguns and tequila. [/QUOTE=BAMF]Do they role a die, with a 1/3 chance of being flacid?[/QUOTE]

12-15-2003, 12:30 PM	#28 (permalink)
eotlemac Banned	I couldnt pick one...i do it for all those things...... when i get up off my lazy ass and do it.

12-16-2003, 08:19 PM	#29 (permalink)
a1t3r3g0 Psycho Location: 127.0.0.1	I started so that I could look good, now I keep it up so that I feel good.

12-26-2003, 08:44 AM	#31 (permalink)
monkeydriven Addict Location: Boston	Because biking is an obsession and you need to be in shape to perform at the highest level. __________________ you think i got my eyes closed but i've been lookin' at you the whole f&ckin' time... ------------------------------------------------ Posting from the home of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox

12-26-2003, 11:36 AM	#32 (permalink)
herostar Psycho Location: South Dakota	I like training becasue not only does it keep me looking half-way decent, it keeps me in shape for tennis and snowboarding. I also love how I feel when I work out. __________________ Got time to chill?

12-26-2003, 05:20 PM	#33 (permalink)
almostaugust Junkie Location: Oz	I voted for 'Feeling Good' because although i like to look good, the strength component, and the fact that i do alot of training as a supplement to another sport- feeling good, is what keeps me going. I train because sport has always been there for me in my life. It has been the one constant in the face of a whole lot of shit. I train because at some deep caveman level, i like to compete against fellow humans. I train because i dont want to have any regrets in my life, i want to be the best i can be. __________________ 'And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself To hold on to these moments as they pass'

01-01-2004, 09:53 AM	#34 (permalink)
lions20 Insane	I workout to build strength and feel good.

01-02-2004, 01:53 PM	#35 (permalink)
Strange Famous follower of the child's crusade?	lose weight. Im already pretty strong, Im just too fat. __________________ "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas

01-04-2004, 11:00 PM	#36 (permalink)
eschmidt Addict Location: Not where you think.....	I think to train for looking good (looking like a model...) is very hard. I think I depends how your body is build when you are born. I personally train to feel good.....

01-05-2004, 11:03 PM	#37 (permalink)
EleqTrizi'T Insane	You know, I was thinking about this.... When I started, I trained for health/losing weight (same thing to me). Now, I just train for the sake of training. I enjoy it, tremendously. I wish I played a sport so I'd have an excuse to train. That'd be great.