Muscle history

TheMM · #1 November 4th, 2007, 06:59 PM

We've all at times on this site mentioned at various times in our lives when we think we started to like muscle (in general at least). Such as seeing some of those older movies and shows like "Sinbad the Sailor and his Magic Belt" or "Li'l Abner".

However, I don't think there's ever been a thread completely devoted to each of our "histories" with muscle.

So.........now we do.

achilles · #2 November 4th, 2007, 07:48 PM

Ah...

Well, here goes: My first memory of an attraction, or at least an interest in muscle was when I first laid eyes on a photo of Arnold Schwartzenegger in his prime. when I was nine years old. A girl in my class was showing his photo around in the school playground at recess, cooing and going "He's sooo dreamy!". When I saw the photo my eyes boggled - I'd never in my life seen anyone with muscles tha enormous, it looked unreal, inhuman. The way they looked sort of fascinated me, but I didn't get to look at it long.

By the time I was thirteen, I'd probably seen a fair bit of muscle growth in cartoons and such. The next big step towards my current fixation with muscle came when a boy in my year donated to the class magazine pile a whole bunch of bodybuilding mags (Flex, etc) that had belonged to his dad, a bodybuilder himself. Whilst other kids went out to play, I remember sitting in the corner of that classroom furtively pouring over the magazines, slowly realising that what I really wanted was to have a body like that myself. No idea I was gay at that point - that wouldn't come until I was seventeen - but the raw, freakish muscularity of those men drove me wild nonetheless.

From then on, all my masturbatory fantasies were about me growing huge. No other men involved, no women. Just me growing muscle. When I was 14 we got the internet, and that just added fuel to the fire as I downloaded images of extreme muscle growth. I used to think I was really weird, messed up, and alone in my obsession with muscle - until finding sites like this when I was sixteen opened my eyes!

Being a skinny runt, despite all my fantasies, I thought that to have a body like my idols would be one thing I'd never have. I worked out a bit between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, but by then I had bigorexia and I was in a deep depression about it. Dark years, best not spoken about.

Five years later, after long and difficult struggle I had left my bigorexia and my teenage years behind, but my obsession for muscle still remaining, I began truly bodybuilding in earnest just as I turned 23, and blogged my progress on the internet through YouTube and Livejournal. The rest as they say, is history :-)

I'll probably always be hard-wired for muscle. Sometimes I wish I could be 'normal' and not have this constant desire to grow - but those were the cards I was dealt! At least my fetish impresses people I guess :]

Ohme123 · #3 November 4th, 2007, 08:57 PM

I honestly cannot think of certain point where it first happened. But as far as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with growth in general.

If I had to pick something that started it, it would be Animorphs. I remember I was never even really interested in the books, I just absolutely loved the covers. I remember at the library I could just sit there and look at all the different covers. Funny enough, the ones that interested me the most were the ones with large animals (Gorilla, Elephant, Rhino, etc.) Especially the gorilla. Animorphs is probably the reason why I can find animal transormations hot today (though the animals have to be large). Especially any Gorilla transformation, but I prefer muscle.

So that would be the start. I'd say the major fascination I had was the hulk. I remember it all started when I saw a trailer for the movie. There was just something about it. I remember constantly checking online for updates and to this day I still find the hulk hotter than any other transformation - period. The movie never fails to turn me on. Words cannot describe how excited I am for the new movie. I just hope the first commercial has some growth in it. *crosses fingers*

I remember when I started getting turned on by the Hulk in 8th grade. I thought I was a freak, basically. At least the only person in the world turned on by this. I thought like that for at least a year till in 9th grade I found O'Melissokomos' site. A huge turning point because I found this site from that. And I came to terms with my fetish and I've even opened up to two friends about it (who also have some interesting fetishes so it's really all good <3)

I can't remember exact scenes, but there are a few muscle growth sequences I saw when I was younger that fascinated me. Jimmy Neuton in the episode N-Men (which I can't find ;_; ) and this one episode of this show called Static Shock, which I'm still not sure of. I wish I coulf din it

Hulk tops them all though, fo real. <3

DaBigGuy1 · #4 November 4th, 2007, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by achilles

Ah...

Well, here goes: My first memory of an attraction, or at least an interest in muscle was when I first laid eyes on a photo of Arnold Schwartzenegger in his prime. when I was nine years old. A girl in my class was showing his photo around in the school playground at recess, cooing and going "He's sooo dreamy!". When I saw the photo my eyes boggled - I'd never in my life seen anyone with muscles tha enormous, it looked unreal, inhuman. The way they looked sort of fascinated me, but I didn't get to look at it long.

By the time I was thirteen, I'd probably seen a fair bit of muscle growth in cartoons and such. The next big step towards my current fixation with muscle came when a boy in my year donated to the class magazine pile a whole bunch of bodybuilding mags (Flex, etc) that had belonged to his dad, a bodybuilder himself. Whilst other kids went out to play, I remember sitting in the corner of that classroom furtively pouring over the magazines, slowly realising that what I really wanted was to have a body like that myself. No idea I was gay at that point - that wouldn't come until I was seventeen - but the raw, freakish muscularity of those men drove me wild nonetheless.

From then on, all my masturbatory fantasies were about me growing huge. No other men involved, no women. Just me growing muscle. When I was 14 we got the internet, and that just added fuel to the fire as I downloaded images of extreme muscle growth. I used to think I was really weird, messed up, and alone in my obsession with muscle - until finding sites like this when I was sixteen opened my eyes!

Being a skinny runt, despite all my fantasies, I thought that to have a body like my idols would be one thing I'd never have. I worked out a bit between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, but by then I had bigorexia and I was in a deep depression about it. Dark years, best not spoken about.

Five years later, after long and difficult struggle I had left my bigorexia and my teenage years behind, but my obsession for muscle still remaining, I began truly bodybuilding in earnest just as I turned 23, and blogged my progress on the internet through YouTube and Livejournal. The rest as they say, is history :-)

I'll probably always be hard-wired for muscle. Sometimes I wish I could be 'normal' and not have this constant desire to grow - but those were the cards I was dealt! At least my fetish impresses people I guess :]

And I can relate to a lot of it on a lot of levels as a former "skinny runt" myself.

Even at 240, 250, and heavier I still want to gain even more size, although some think it is, well, crazy. But hey, I think most of us that are in the iron game are always thinking to some degree more muscle, more muscle, more muscle!

Congrats, Achilles!

Ron III---III

tarmangani · #5 November 5th, 2007, 02:28 PM

My fascination with muscle began at the Saturday matinee of our local movie theatre. Every week they would show a couple of older action titles and a bunch of cartoons. One week they showed "Tarzan's Fight for Life" starring Gordon Scott. In the film Tarzan performed serveral feats of strength like: defending single-handed an attacked safari, wrestling and subduing a phython and defeating a witch doctor and his henchmen after being captured, imprisioned and almost sacraficed in a black magic ritual. Throuhout Gordon Scott's physique was well displayed and the action believable because of the superbly muscled apemen. This led me to seek out other Tarzans like Lex Barker and Mike Henry and eventually to films with Steve Reeves, Mark Forrest and Gordon Mitchell. Through these films and health and fitness magazines I learned the the average frame could be transformed into one of strength and power. That a superior male physique can give pleasure and well being to those who strive to develope it and garner respect from those who admire a living scupture of well proportioned flesh and rock-hard muscle.

1bigwoof · #6 November 6th, 2007, 07:01 PM

For me, my first attraction to muscle came with the Charles Atlas ads in sports magazines. Then I noticed CBS Sports Spectacular's coverage of the World's Strongest Man. These guys were really strong but most weren't particularly muscular. Shortly thereafter, I discovered "Pumping Iron." From there, I went to pro wrestling...Tony Atlas, the Ultimate Warrior, the Road Warriors, and the British Bulldog were some who caught my attention.

Finally, after college, I managed to motivate myself to get to the gym. I just wish I had started sooner.

agreatguy6 · #7 November 6th, 2007, 09:41 PM

Ok, when I was a kid, I was a HUGE sadist, mentally (I'd never do anything to physically harm ANYONE, but I'd think it through, that's for sure). I was over at a neighbor's house when I was like... 8 or something, and her son (he was in high school) was watching Dragon Ball Z. Apparently (I've never found this episode. I find that depressing) the story was that Goku was putting on too much power, and I remember someone saying that he might either explode or die if he kept gaining like he was. His muscles were HUGE, too, and I remember being rather excited to see what would happen, but I had to go home.
Then, I ran across macrophile.com when I was in 6th grade (strange kid, I tell you what) by mistake and was AMAZED by the size of some of the figures in the drawings of Gideon and Seph.
Hooked ever since.

Me, a muscle monster? Yeah, if I didn't have to work for it, but I'm practically a bishie so it's not gonna happen. Plus, I'm lazy.

MAZIVKAROLY · #8 November 7th, 2007, 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaBigGuy1

And I can relate to a lot of it on a lot of levels as a former "skinny runt" myself.

Even at 240, 250, and heavier I still want to gain even more size, although some think it is, well, crazy. But hey, I think most of us that are in the iron game are always thinking to some degree more muscle, more muscle, more muscle!

Congrats, Achilles!

Ron III---III

Superman first the comic books, then TV, then Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, Tarzan actors as well. Captain America and Captain Planet. Earliest WCW matches. Charles Atlas in ads, then Pete Grymkowski and of course, Steve Reeves in Hercules movies. So many muscular men... All of them fulfilled my earliest fantasies and dreams to be as muscled up as they were. Began achieving this at 21 and still doing it at 62+.
Couldn't begin weight gains until 21 and after. Then I couldn't be stopped in spite of many detours and detractors. Muscled men will always be my true heroes.

Eager Muscle · #9 November 8th, 2007, 08:00 PM

Earliest memories? Popeye and Sinbad when I was four - I'd find myself tuning in just to see Popeye's biceps pop after downing a can of spinach, or Sinbad's torso bulge with power after cinching in his belt. At least I didn't also develop an affinity for sailors, otherwise I'd be in Iraq!

At eight or nine I discovered Charles Atlas, Universal Bodybuilding and Muscle Fighter IV musclebuilding systems via the comic books, but was too shy to ever order the courses. Too bad; once I actually began bodybuilding I progressed really fast - my avatar was taken only 7 months after I began training!

Still, until the internet opened my eyes I never knew anyone was like me - into muscle growth. I didn't even know there was such a thing as muscle worship! Pre-bodybuilding I was lucky - I was cute enough to bypass the "muscle-for-muscle" credos of a couple of seriously jacked bodybuilders. But I lacked the confidence to ask them to pose and flex - I thought if I asked they'd think me a perv! To find out via the internet that I wasn't alone, that there were at least thousands of other men turned on by muscle transformation was a lifechanging epiphany.

Forgive me for getting on my "dais," but isn't it amazing how we torture ourselves? Straights probably think we're selfish with no accountability because of our escapist escapades at clubs and our sexual pursuits. How many of us are making up for the years of psychological turmoil involved in living a lie so that we could protect our families or careers instead of (or in addition to) our own hides? With few exceptions, can most straights (much less those gays who were always out and proud, who I profoundly respect) acknowledge, much less empathize or even credit us with enduring such denial and self-loathing?

Musclegrowth.org should credit itself for helping new generations of likeminded burgeoning musclestuds understand that they're not alone, that their desires are healthy and natural, so that those with this predisposition will make the eventual leap from bodybuilding.com to bigmuscle.com to musclegrowth.org without hangups or guilt. Those rabblerousers that might consider that attitude "recruiting" may cry foul, but in my book if one's actions encourages others to be truly happy being themselves, that's a good thing. No pun (or pop cultural references) intended, but this site should "press" on!

[COLOR="Red"]"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
- Dorothy Parker [/COLOR]

chocomus · #10 November 9th, 2007, 04:51 AM

For me it all started with DragonBallZ. I discovered it when I was 8. At first I liked it because it was fun and cool (and I still think that way) but some years later the amazing muscle transformations got me excited. After that, real muscle (and not only cartoons) got my attention. Yeah, it all started whit DBZ

cozman · #11 November 15th, 2007, 12:37 PM

tarmangani · #12 November 15th, 2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by cozman

While Tony Dow was not part of my "muscle awakening", I do remember a particular picture of him. It must have been taken late in the series because it definitly showcased his maturity. I found it by chance in an old book store that had ancient issues of TV Guide. The photo showed Tony on the high diving board of a hotel pool wearing a blue speedo. His body was no longer one of a kid, but that of a well toned athlete and as I said the shot showcased his maturity.

bigun · #13 December 9th, 2007, 12:19 PM

I can point to one specific incident that started my desire for personal muscle growth, and my appreciation of the muscle growth of others. It was the summer of my 12th year. Believe it or not, this all started with a TV Guide article. There was a write up by some Soap stars about how to build muscle at home. There were 3 push up variations (hands on chairs, feet on chairs, hands and feet on chairs), an isometric biceps exercise where you pulled on a towel with both hands, a lunge for the legs, calf raises on the stairs, and 2 or 3 ab exercises. I read that article probably 100 times. I so wanted to be huge. I was a quiet guy, into music, and not into sports at all, so I was picked on constantly for being different. I began to workout at night in our basement after everyone was asleep. For some reason, I didn't want anyone to find out that I was into bodybuilding. I wanted to keep it a secret until I had grown because I so feared being made fun of. Every night I did this. Whenever I saw someone who worked out, I couldn't help but stare. I so wanted to look exactly like that. I began to find excuses to go to the store, the library, anywhere that sold muscle magazines or books, so I could find out more about how to gain muscle. I would devour each magazine with trembling hands. I even kept a few pictures stashed in my bedroom as inspiration for when I was older. My grandparents had a weight bench and whenever I would spend the night, I would use it (again without anyone knowing). I couldn't get enough exercise it didn't matter the body part, it all felt great. Then one day, I was trying to see how many leg lifts I could do, and I felt this awesome sensation in my pants. It felt like I had wet myself, but when I checked, nothing was there. I began to get hard every time I worked out, and would finish the workout with as many leg lifts as I could do. I still get hard every time I work out. The thought of getting bigger will do it for me every time. It never gets old.

bigun · #14 December 9th, 2007, 12:19 PM

This posted 2 times for some reason.

Eager Muscle · #15 December 10th, 2007, 11:59 AM

Dang, I have to start doing leg lifts!

xythan_shadow · #16 December 10th, 2007, 12:06 PM

For me, it was Street Fighter II's Zangief. I remember playing it over and over again because if you did certain things and ramped up the difficutly to max, Zangief would be really tough and do all kinds of things that just showed off his power. I loved it and would reset the game over and over just to see him.

suma · #17 December 10th, 2007, 08:29 PM

I remember Zangief, he was the big Russian brute right?
loved it when after a match he'd hit some most muscular shots, just to show off his power

sketlover · #18 December 15th, 2007, 07:13 PM

When I was 7/8 y.o. I've got a crash on He-Man - Master of the universe.
I've always get a hard-on with this cartoon. At this time, It bugged me to get a "woody" ; I didn't understand why and it feld quite unconfortable.
Later I've learned what to do with a "woody", and of couse he-man was one of my first wet dreams' caracter.
Then, as Chocomus, I discovered dragon ball. And - ho man !- what a huge revelation for me.

7leecker · #19 January 18th, 2008, 07:52 PM

I was eight, I guess. My mom would leave me by myself at Art's Barbershop to have my hair cut. If I was lucky, there was a wait and I could sit and read a couple Superman comics. Then Art would say 'next' and it would be my turn. Art was a former Marine with a flattop and glasses. He wore a tight white cotton or poly short-sleeved barber shirt. And he had muscles. Looking straight ahead was really hard. As he moved around me and his arms circled my head, my head kept bobbing. Every once in a while, he would prod me back into place. My eyes must have been spinning. And the chair was in a corner with mirrors on two sides. It's a wonder I didn't break my neck. Oh, Art.

SouthPaw · #20 January 19th, 2008, 07:44 PM

My father always proclaimed himself a sort of health nut, in the old style “physical culture” sort of way. But for all that he just did 15-20 minutes of calisthenics three times a week in his bedroom. No weights, no gym, no sports, and in private. He certainly didn’t share the workout, just the proclamations over dinner of the “proper diet”, as he was drinking which he did every day. And with only one sister and no brothers in my family, there were no other siblings to influence me. So I don’t understand exactly why, at 13, I started exercising. Not peer pressure. Nobody I knew worked out. I wasn’t playing sports. NO interest in sports.

For some reason, my parents had a welded jungle gym of sorts in the back yard. One of those 12 foot wide horizontal ladders you hang from. What were they thinking? My friends and I rarely went near the thing. That is, until I started using it for dips and pull-ups every morning before school. I have no idea where that came from. I was also doing pushups everyday in my room. In about three months in our PE class strength tests, I went form doing about 3 pull-ups to about 20; one of the best scores in the class. Shocked the teacher. Weird reactions from some of the class mates too. I was on to something.

My parents noticed too. So when I turned 14, they bought me a plastic covered weight set. Also about this same time, I happened to see my first bodybuilding magazine. This was the Dave Draper era. Bodybuilding was still sort of underground. Arnold hadn’t taken it mainstream yet. I didn’t know what to make of it, but it was real interesting.

There was that gladiator, Hercules fad in the movies too. People like Reg Park, Steve Reeves and others. There was even a movie called the Three Stooges Meet Hercules with Samson Burke. I also had my comic book collection specifically for Wieder’s shots of Arnold in the back pages.

My home town didn’t have a health club or public gym. My high school didn’t have a weight room or real gym. So I was stuck with the plastic weights in my bedroom until, at 18, I moved away. Even before college, at about 19, I had joined a YMCA. Nobody told me to, but my first inclination was to get up at 5:00 am, jog down to the gym and work out first thing nearly every day. And it’s been like that ever since.

penguin101 · #21 January 24th, 2008, 08:43 PM

I remember watching a scene in Disney's Aladdin where he buffs up for a second as a result of Genie's magic. I was very young, so I didn't really feel anything. Then a few years later, I began to feel something when I saw Disney's Hercules. I also liked looking at Hulk comics. But later still, I saw that Ron the Man episode of Kim Possible, and that's when the obsession really started. I remember wanting to make a muscle ring for myself. Not long after that, I found out about Sinbad Jr., which I looked for everywhere until I found some DVDs on eBay. And of course, I was drawn further into the void by that Incredible Bulk episode of Totally Spies, and that bit in Dragon Ball Z when Buu goes inside Vegito and bulks him up, and He Man of course. It was about this time that I started drawing muscle growth. I traced a shirtless Goku over and over until I could draw it freehand, and then I was in business. With practice, I became the Rembrandt I am today. *laughs*