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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 589731" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I accept that this is one way that habits can be established. But that's not how it happened with me. </p><p></p><p>In my case, I became very interested in Olympic-style weightlifting - what the rest of the world calls "heavy athletes" - when I was in high school. In those days, not only were there no strength coaches, but our football coaches were very ambiguous about weightlifting at all. Some actively discouraged it. I, oth, thought that weightlifting was <em>cool</em>. I wanted to be strong, pretty much for my own delectation. It helped in sports, but that was secondary to just plain getting stronger and doing the lifts. And I did this all on my own; I never got more then occasional admiration from friends. While I never got really good at lifting, I simply kept doing it after awhile because I enjoyed it. It makes you feel better and it's fun to go to the gym. When I got to college I met some similar enthusiasts and it got to be a social thing. It turned out we had all come to weightlifting in pretty much the same way as well.</p><p></p><p>I suppose that your road may be more common nowadays since athletic programs put so much more emphasis on being strong, but that isn't how I got the habit. Different strokes, I guess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 589731, member: 265"] I accept that this is one way that habits can be established. But that's not how it happened with me. In my case, I became very interested in Olympic-style weightlifting - what the rest of the world calls "heavy athletes" - when I was in high school. In those days, not only were there no strength coaches, but our football coaches were very ambiguous about weightlifting at all. Some actively discouraged it. I, oth, thought that weightlifting was [I]cool[/I]. I wanted to be strong, pretty much for my own delectation. It helped in sports, but that was secondary to just plain getting stronger and doing the lifts. And I did this all on my own; I never got more then occasional admiration from friends. While I never got really good at lifting, I simply kept doing it after awhile because I enjoyed it. It makes you feel better and it's fun to go to the gym. When I got to college I met some similar enthusiasts and it got to be a social thing. It turned out we had all come to weightlifting in pretty much the same way as well. I suppose that your road may be more common nowadays since athletic programs put so much more emphasis on being strong, but that isn't how I got the habit. Different strokes, I guess. [/QUOTE]
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