Bodybuilding Ever Saved your Life?

[Buffgeek]

Someone recently asked me why I workout (Obviously I just love lifting) and that got me to thinking of all the times over the years that bodybuilding has saved my life....

Just a little background: been lifting since I was 13 am now 32. I am lifetime natural simply because I never liked the notion of having to take something to gain size then lose it once I stopped taking it. I dont complete as I am not sure I will never be brave enough to pose in front of a crowd, but one day I think I would like to...


In any case, twice in my life bodybuilding has saved my life.

The first time was during a fishing trip. Its a long story so I will be very brief. I was 21 at the time about 250 pounds 30 in waist and pretty strong. I am a little over Half Indian and we had tribal rights for Dungeness crap out of westport Washington. We got greedy and went out with gale warnings. Great day caught 8000 pounds and packed it in for the night. I was woken up and told to put on a life suit and go out on deck. Shortly thereafter I found myself trapped under the boat with the survival suit pushing me up against the boat. I was able to get into the fish hold and catch an air pocket then was able to fight the suit and make my way out of the fish hold and get out from under the boat.

When I hit the surface, I started getting pounded by 28-30 foot breakers. I was out there for over 2 hours getting pummeled like a rag doll. This was in late November so it was cold as hell as well. finally the Coast guard found me and brought me back to shore. I was the only survivor.

I completely attribute bodybuilding to my survival. The extra mass allowed me to avoid Hypothermia (heard that after 45 min you are usually screwed with those conditions) and the extra strengh allowed me to not only escape from under the boat, but to take the abuse of the ocean for as long as I did.



the second Time was 3 years ago when I really let me self go and started having whacked symptoms. I started gaming online and was up to 305 pounds. I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with Diabetes. Also my heart was fine, but my stomach looked like hamburger from the inside.

Needless to say I was back in the gym the day I got out of the hospital and within 4 months I had dropped 65 pounds of fat put on a good amount of muscle and could control my blood sugar with diet. Basically my body works again. In addition I dropped my blood pressure from 163/109 to 120/82.

I havent stopped lifting/cardio since and will not workout less than 4 days a week....




Has bodybuilding saved your life?

[CARTEL]

Bodybuilding pulled me from a burning car.

[youandme]

Bodybuilding pulled me from a burning car.

lol 

[candidizzle]

i was chocking on a meatball and bodybuilding gave me the Heimlich

[Buffgeek]

i was chocking on a meatball and bodybuilding gave me the Heimlich

Pics or it didnt happen imo.

[chaos]

i was chocking on a meatball and bodybuilding gave me the Heimlich

WTF is "chocking"

[youandme]

Pics or it didnt happen imo.

you must not have read it properly.

keywords "choking" "meatball" "gave me" "heimlich"

let's not bring pics into the equation

[CARTEL]

One time I was confronted by a dozen kids from a youth gang.

Before I know whats going on someone had kicked the shit out of them, knocking them all unconscious.

Who came to my rescue?

It was Bodybuilding.

[candidizzle]

one night my sister decided to take a back aley short cut on her way home, and a mugger thre her down and tried to rape her and take her purse.

bodybuilding came out of no where and stabbed the guy in the baqck and resued my sister

[Buffgeek]

Man I shoulda known this would turn into another psuedo chuck norris/gayer than thread...

worst thing is I cant contribute because I am the poor schmuck that started it.

[CARTEL]

Man I shoulda known this would turn into another psuedo chuck norris/gayer than thread...

worst thing is I cant contribute because I am the poor schmuck that started it.

The real comedy on this thread is that you are half Indian yet you were gaming online 

[youandme]

one time bodybuilding banged this bitch with an std, mushroom polyps on her box, well yep you guessed it bodybuilding saved me from getting that std

[stuntmovie]

True story....

Told this one years ago but one of my Marines in Vietnam was as solid as a rock and trained whenever possible lifting sand-bags and doing every conceivable exercise known to man in the field.

While waiting in the LZ for the helicoptor with a group of fellow Marines heading off for five days R&R, we got hit by some 122 mm rockets. A couple of those rounds hit off to the side of that LZ in the loose dirt burying most of the schrapnel but producting one hell of a huge percussion.

The percussion alone was so sever that some of the Marines were seriously hurt but the kid who spent every free moment of his time keeping his body ripped and tight, simply picked himself up and brushed himself off and got checked out by the medics, found suitable to head off on R&R even though he couldn't hear a thing that was said to him and was the only Marine on that bird as it took off once the LZ was secure.

He was just too tuff to crush.

There are a couple of documented WWII articles where the wounded were spared immediate death because their abs withstood sever percussions. I'll try to find them.

[Buffgeek]

The real comedy on this thread is that you are half Indian yet you were gaming online 

LOL I just spit water all over my desk... that was awesome..    

[CARTEL]

I once threatened to jump off a skyscraper when I lost my job.

Guess who talked me down.

That's right, Bodybuilding.

[chaos]

I once threatened to jump off a skyscraper when I lost my job.

Guess who talked me down.

That's right, Bodybuilding.

gayer than threatening suicide, then backing down.

[mass 04]

A few years ago I was out on the tractor around my farm. I was pretty small at the time, about 320, 3%bf and was clearing out room on my 76 acre estate. I was driving the tractor around one of my guest houses,when the tractor tipped over. I was pretty tired having just finished my chest workout, thankfully i went pretty light; 650 for five sets of ten. I leg pressed the tractor off of myself and carried it back to my main house for repairs. BB saved my life that day.

[CARTEL]

The year was 1793 and I was in France during the "Reign of Terror" and was sentenced to death by Guillotine.

I shared a cell with Bodybuilding who knew some guys on the outside who sprung us.

Saved again by Bodybuilding!

[gordiano]

Bbbing? No. Muscle Phone, however.....that's a different story.

[benchthis]

a gang had developed a habit of robbing older ladies on their way home from church... well one day while the robbery was in progress I hit them with a super man and straight into a most muscular... needless to say they never harassed my hood again 

[Monster81]

guess who helped savastase fight cancer ?


































lol,,thats right budy ,,,,,,it was Bodybuilding  .............

[Tombo]

bodybuilding taught me the falcon punch, i've yet to use it

[musclehedz]

Someone recently asked me why I workout (Obviously I just love lifting) and that got me to thinking of all the times over the years that bodybuilding has saved my life....

Just a little background: been lifting since I was 13 am now 32. I am lifetime natural simply because I never liked the notion of having to take something to gain size then lose it once I stopped taking it. I dont complete as I am not sure I will never be brave enough to pose in front of a crowd, but one day I think I would like to...


In any case, twice in my life bodybuilding has saved my life.

The first time was during a fishing trip. Its a long story so I will be very brief. I was 21 at the time about 250 pounds 30 in waist and pretty strong. I am a little over Half Indian and we had tribal rights for Dungeness crap out of westport Washington. We got greedy and went out with gale warnings. Great day caught 8000 pounds and packed it in for the night. I was woken up and told to put on a life suit and go out on deck. Shortly thereafter I found myself trapped under the boat with the survival suit pushing me up against the boat. I was able to get into the fish hold and catch an air pocket then was able to fight the suit and make my way out of the fish hold and get out from under the boat.

When I hit the surface, I started getting pounded by 28-30 foot breakers. I was out there for over 2 hours getting pummeled like a rag doll. This was in late November so it was cold as hell as well. finally the Coast guard found me and brought me back to shore. I was the only survivor.

I completely attribute bodybuilding to my survival. The extra mass allowed me to avoid Hypothermia (heard that after 45 min you are usually screwed with those conditions) and the extra strengh allowed me to not only escape from under the boat, but to take the abuse of the ocean for as long as I did.



the second Time was 3 years ago when I really let me self go and started having whacked symptoms. I started gaming online and was up to 305 pounds. I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with Diabetes. Also my heart was fine, but my stomach looked like hamburger from the inside.

Needless to say I was back in the gym the day I got out of the hospital and within 4 months I had dropped 65 pounds of fat put on a good amount of muscle and could control my blood sugar with diet. Basically my body works again. In addition I dropped my blood pressure from 163/109 to 120/82.

I havent stopped lifting/cardio since and will not workout less than 4 days a week....




Has bodybuilding saved your life?

What makes you think you lose muscle after stopping a cycle? I lost no size at all since last year 

Don't believe all sources..

[d0nny2600]

A bear almost attacked me once.....Then I stripped down and hit a front double bi....to my surprize the bear hit a side chest...I hit a most muscular and he hit an abdominal thigh....I countered with a lat spread and it was lights out - bear ran away!

[Faust]

One time i was just talking a walk in the hood, presuming i was pretty safe, being 6"2, 250 pds ripped. Suddenly 10 gang members came out of nowhere. Luckily i had just eaten a dozen egg whites, half a chicken and a 50g whey shake. With a couple of vitriolic protein farts i was able to befuddle the gang and make my escape.

Thank you bodybuilding diet!