when yall started

[Julien]

when did you start to lift ? i started when i was around 16 the youngest you start the best it is

[rado]

15, when I 1st joined the wrestling team.

[Wannabe]

16 for me- still loving every minute of it Got it all to look forward to!

[liftsiron]

I think around 16, it was a number of years before I begin lifting correctly though.

[Mudge]

I started at 11, but begged for weights years before that. Problem was, back then iron weights were $$$ and the Sears we went to had all busted up cement weights (plasti-coated), so I had to 'weight' (har har).

So at 11 years old I couldn't tell you what I weighed, but my weight set was 104 pounds and I could not bench it, dropped to my chest and had to let the weights slide off. I think I benched 85 pounds successfully.

My barber was a national level guy and his wife competed also, and my friends dad was also a lifter. That would have been early 80s. The barber shop was Blood, Sweat and Shears, I saw it a few months ago.

[CO-B16]

I had to for football in highschool... so 14 i guess... but i did it as little as possible..i hated it for some reason then... but fell in love with them at 19....