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So what do you want to know? My name's Michael, I'm a heterosexual male, currently attending college in Victorville, CA, between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and I've been lifting weights since I was 14.
In California, 2 years of physical education are required to graduate high school. The first year I took P.E., I somehow got stuck in the aerobics class. After half a year, I got tired and decided to sign up for a weights class. The first day I started, I found out how weak I was when I couldn't bench press the 45 lb. bar. Then again, I was barely 5 feet tall.
After a while, I started getting hooked on weights, and getting tired of being pushed around. With my savings, I bought a weight bench with about 100lbs to start. Soon, working out became a habit after homework every evening. But I still wasn't practicing good nutrition. I couldn't stand milk.
With the new strength I had, I decided to give J.V. football a try. My moves on the field sucked, but I made up for it in the weight room, lifting as much as some varsity players, at only 15 and 145lbs! But my family didn't approve so I had no way to get home after practice and eventually had to give up.
As soon as I could drive, I started looking around for a gym to work out at. I had gained a lot of strength and some size, but I still wasn't where I wanted to be. The first gym I went to was Family Fitness, but I couldn't afford the $300 start-up fee. So I went to Gold's in Victorville and paid the $50 along with $15 a month. And I got some free tanning too. But I didn't get any nutrition advice, which kept me from getting too far. I went there for about a year and a half, but decided to quit after having equipment being constantly occupied by pill-popping juiceheads. The naked fat guys having a converation in the locker room didn't help either.
I went back to my exercise equipment at home, which was now collecting dust. Though my aspirations were to play sports, I didn't have time now. It sucks being born at just the right time to make you a year younger than everyone else, and graduating at 17. I still worked out at home, but I didn't know what I was going for. I had no goals and no knowledge of what it took to get big. My mom used to say (and still does) when seeing bodybuilders on a tv, "do you really want to look like that, with all those veins? Sick." I realized my answer was Hell, yeah!
It still took a while to get the knowledge I needed, though I expected to wake up one day and see a monster in the mirror. It didn't happen (of course). It wasn't until I educated myself, read stuff on the internet and in magazines that I realized the size wasn't there because I had unintentionally starved myself of the proteins I needed. Once I found this, I made the most dramatic leap in strength and size ever.
Instantly, I began to like milk. And for the first time, I found protein powders that didn't make me vomit. Finally, at the end of my adolescence, I went from 157 to 175 in about a month. My strength went through the roof, and my once dormant arms grew almost overnight. Then I began to lose some unwanted fat, and replaced it with muscle. It was about this time I joined another gym, the Family Fitness, which had just been bought by 24 Hour Fitness. It cost me as much as Gold's did a few years before. I started replacing fat with muscle so quick that some of the trainers thought I was on drugs.
I'm still not where I want to be though. After some stuff that got in the way of concentrating, I'm trying to reach my next plateau while burning off the rest of the fat that keeps me from having the physique I've always wanted. But I haven't lost any of those pounds of muscle I gained.
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