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Title: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: muscleman-2013 on June 30, 2015, 05:52:00 AM
I was around 19yo.  Reading the gay magazines like muscle and fitness.  My friend asked me if I was gay when he saw me reading them, and I was like "wtf is he on about..."
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Post by: da_vinci on June 30, 2015, 06:00:44 AM
At about 7years old. I had a wallpaper of Arnold in my room. Not joking, I was impressed by male musculatures from a young age (no hormon :P ).
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on June 30, 2015, 06:03:15 AM
 :-X
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Post by: _aj_ on June 30, 2015, 06:06:06 AM
I realized pretty early that I had a thing for "fit"  :P women (no shmoemo), so I had to go to their natural habitat: the gym. Once there, I thought that I might as well keep busy and I simultaneously realized that they seemed to like a more muscular man. One thing led to another and here I am 30+ years later.
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Post by: SuperTed on June 30, 2015, 06:09:35 AM
Loved Arnie as a kid and always had an interest in muscular, strong men (no homo) from a admiration standpoint.
In terms of pro-BB, I only took an interest in it when I was around 18.
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Post by: Henda on June 30, 2015, 06:12:45 AM
Started weights and wanting to be bigger when I was 14 but the likes of Arnold or some of the blokes on the wrestling were the inspiration, never followed pro bodybuilding till I was 16 or so
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Post by: funk51 on June 30, 2015, 07:08:08 AM
i was 6 years old and saw steve reeves in hercules , i wanted to train to be able to tear temples down too... later when i was 10 i was on the beach at ac and some muscle tool was walking around the beach flexing and such he had a bunch of girls with him so i thought hmmmmmm    [  no homo] not that there's anything wrong with it.
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Post by: _aj_ on June 30, 2015, 07:18:22 AM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=575435.0;attach=623451;image)

Ahh, the "Golden Age" where women dug muscles with abandon.

Now it's all about the metro-, lunberjack-, beta-sexual twinks.

If women express interest in muscle, they do it in complete anonymity or privacy.
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Post by: SF1900 on June 30, 2015, 07:31:15 AM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=575435.0;attach=623451;image)

Ahh, the "Golden Age" where women dug muscles with abandon.

Now it's all about the metro-, lunberjack-, beta-sexual twinks.

If women express interest in muscle, they do it in complete anonymity or privacy.

And the hipster/lumberjack look

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7c/78/f1/7c78f1b01288a2ee47daeb0b519fe703.jpg)

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f1/c3/96/f1c396481c5971947cc3b85216fb6465.jpg)

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/db/46/b4/db46b4a6fc4654651f0ff4a1267767bd.jpg)

(http://wundergroundmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Hipster-beard.jpeg)

Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: robcguns on June 30, 2015, 07:50:23 AM
14
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Post by: Wiggs on June 30, 2015, 07:54:07 AM
Age 15 1994
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Post by: thegamechanger on June 30, 2015, 07:54:19 AM
so far i havent
Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: FitnessFrenzy on June 30, 2015, 08:10:52 AM
I got caught in the bodybuilding cult when I was just a young lad and I learned that Basile did not have his blue stars ever since. I have been fighting to promote this issue ever since.
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Post by: ritch on June 30, 2015, 08:39:58 AM
16ish. Would have my buddy put the monopoly game on hold so I could go home, eat and come back to continue. hahaha...
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Post by: _bruce_ on June 30, 2015, 08:56:45 AM
Hercules deceived me - didn't know that the actors were all different... Park, Ferdingo, etc.
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Post by: Svengoolie on June 30, 2015, 08:58:23 AM
I've always admired muscular heroes since I was a young boy, growing up with Arnold and Sly movies, He-Man, Superheroes, etc. But I bought my first Musclemag at 16 years old I think. I used lifting weights as a  
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Post by: Yamcha on June 30, 2015, 09:32:59 AM
I joined GetBig about a month ago... so since about a month ago
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Post by: Rudee on June 30, 2015, 10:08:40 AM
The 1983 movie DC Cab with the Barbarian Brothers is what got me into regular training 4x/week
Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: Ronnie Rep on June 30, 2015, 10:39:40 AM
19 when Pumping Iron came out. I pretty much became obsessed and wanted to become a man standing on stage in a thong.
Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: Howard on June 30, 2015, 11:07:37 AM
19 when Pumping Iron came out. I pretty much became obsessed and wanted to become a man standing on stage in a thong.

It was around the same time for me and I was 18 in 1977.
I trained as a bodybuilder for a year and then entered my 1st show back in 1978.
I thought I had a real shot to win the teen div ( age 19) until I arrived and saw the competition LOL.
Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: calfzilla on June 30, 2015, 11:19:46 AM
I was around 19yo.  Reading the gay magazines like muscle and fitness.  My friend asked me if I was gay when he saw me reading them, and I was like "wtf is he on about..."

Same for me. I would be on the computer looking at pics of these great athletes and my roommate would be like that's gay and I was just like  ::)

Now I realize how truly gay it was  :-\
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Post by: bigmikecox on June 30, 2015, 11:20:33 AM
1986

I was 12 going on 13. Fell in love with it.
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Post by: Papper on June 30, 2015, 03:15:26 PM
First it was action movies with martial artists like Van Damme and actions stars like Sly and Arnold.

That lead into gym training at the tender age of 14 around 1998. I downloaded and saw Pumping Iron when the internet made everything easy accessible.

I started noticing Ronnie in magazines of a friend around 2000, the new Mr O at that time. Thought he was way too big, but still intruiging to see him train. Remember thinking his arms were similar to Arnolds, with the peaks.
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Post by: Overload on June 30, 2015, 03:16:53 PM
Around 14-15.


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Post by: Waller on June 30, 2015, 03:20:06 PM
Grew up watching Arnie films. There was no Internet and I didn't give a shit about magazines, so the closest thing for me was those and watching WSM each year.

It was like discovering a whole new Arnie when I learnt about his pre Hollywood life  (a little homo).

I started really noticing pro bodybuilding... probably when I was about 20.
Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: Thin Lizzy on June 30, 2015, 03:26:41 PM
I started readin' da muscle books in high school.

This guy was my favorite. I even bought one of those tanks:

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Post by: The Grim Lifter on June 30, 2015, 04:16:11 PM
I trained for a year until i even bought a mag. Then i was hooked on them. I could remember articles i read word for word and not remember jack shit at school. Best thing though training gave me the discipline and drive, school really is a waste of time once you hit the real world, despite me going and getting a degree.
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Post by: WannaBePro on June 30, 2015, 04:52:44 PM
Started going to the gym regularly when I was 20 after a bad breakup. Realized that after 2.5yrs of being in a relationship I've let myself go really badly and wanted to make myself feel better by pulling some rebound pussy. About 4 months in I saw my first MD at a grocery store and decided to take a look. Saw Jay Cutler and for whatever reason his physique really resonated with me. Probably cause he's a blocky white guy like myself (except like 5X bigger haha). Unlike most people Arnold never really inspired me to workout or train for bodybuilding, it was Cutler.
Title: Re: How old were you when you got caught up in the pro-bodybuilding cult?
Post by: Teutonic Knight on July 01, 2015, 12:54:45 AM
I got (read: borrow) my 1st dumbbell from Mr.Universe place at 12  :D