Bodybuilding Aspies?

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I agree with the above posters. Seeing once bulky high school football players 10 years later is rarely a pretty picture. Work on lean, dense muscles instead of big doughy ones. Those look better when you get older and are easier on heart health too.

I have some friends who are "big", and although they are much stronger then me, they look like fatasses compared to my trim ass! I dont want to be too lean, but i also don't want the football build if you know what i mean.

I also agree, the bruce lee look is what I am trying to go for. I'm trying to incorporate more cardio into my week. I love swimming. I've been mainly focusing on the military exercises: crunches, push ups, pull ups, and dips for upper body. Diet is also huge too. This is good summary i put it on my facebook profile haha:


World-Class Fitness in 100 Words:
"Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports

I do weights normally on and off as I do not have the money to hold a gym membership or for any equipment apart from the obvious dips,pressups,pullups etc.
I aminly focus on my running, and my boxing, but when I do have the chance I love my weights my father is an ex-bodybuilder as well as an ex-pro thai-boxer, so he helps me out in the gym and in the ring as he is also a boxing coach so I am very lucky otherwise I wouldn't even get out of bed. I love my exercise but I am also lazy lol.

One of my interests is restoring and collecting air raid sirens... And also bodybuilding/weighlifting is one of my long-time obsessions. So I thought it would be a good irony picture, to powerlift a 500-lb siren! (don't try this if you're not an experienced lifter!! !)

Charles

Man Kx - wish Dallas was closer to Guymon. I'd beg you to let me work out with you when you go lol. I really miss having someone to push me during workouts!

I'm 43, and I've been bodybuilding since I was 13. I'm not a big bloke - I'm 170lb with around 6-8% bodyfat.

It's always struck me as an Aspie style persuit because of the obsessional nature of the training & dieting, the perfectionist nature, and the sheer eccentricity of the sport. I'd be willing to bet good money that the prevalence of Aspergers in the bodybuilding community is significantly higher than in the general population.

This probably applies to any of the individualistic sports, like running or archery. Most team-games are probably quite challenging for Aspies.

I am more athletic than body builder. Been training in gyms for about 20 years and always done lots of swimming. I always thought it important to keep my body healthy because then that may translate to a healthy mind.

I find it hard to put on weight. I have always had low body fat. Working out has bulked me up a little but I mainly do it to keep myself in tone.

In the past I have been very obsessional. At 20 I used to do 50 lengths of the pool every day.

I don't body buold but I do lift weights quite obssessively (sometimes doing hundreds of reps with light weights in a session). For me it's not so much about building muscle but about endurance and just seeing how hard I can push my body. I don't get the same kind of rush through lifting heavy weights with fewer reps, which is why I go for relatively light weights.

I used to run an hour and a half every day too but now I've moved to an area where I just don't enjoy running as much, so I'm saving up to buy a cross-trainer.

i bodybuild, or try to anyway. i actually thought that my interest in being big somehow excluded me from having AS because i didn't fit the stereotype of the nerdy gamer, but i have found over the last year that AS and PDD-NOS aren't bound to stereotypes. i honestly doubted that i had AS because i hate computers for the most part, video games make me nauseas with all the movement, and i hate most sci-fi/ fantasy things because i don't quite get why people would go out of their way for something intrinsically unreal, and my obsessions didn't match what the high volume of literature on AS would suggest is common., my obsessions are with philosophy, bodybuilding, and nutirition/bio-mechanics (though i def have social deficits). but it's kinda weird the way we found out that i had AS because i had to drop out of college because i had developed anorexia while away from home (i have this thing with eating alone: i've never done it, and probably never will, and given that i was lonely and lacking socially i decided to start a diet to compete with myself that went horribly awry) and it was in counseling afterward that we discovered i had it through being tested for ADD (it was raunchy enough to suggest that there was something more than ADD going on, and hence comes AS). but with the bodybuilding thing, i am VERY devoted to it, because 1.) that's how we made sure i ate for a long time, 2.) it really helps with sleep and anxiety, 3.) it boosts my confidence when i interact with people because i know that what they see first is my body, which makes them more likely to look past my social deficits for at least a little while for some reason, and 4.) if you are going to have an obsession, it certainly doesn't hurt to have one based around healthy living/ eating. but i will admit, if i go to the gym, i have to have my ipod because talking to people at the gym severely puts the harsh on my mellow. i'm really glad i'm not alone with the bodybuilding thing, because i really thought that because i didn't fit the stereotype of the math nerd (i'm dyscalculic, too!), gamer type that it just meant that i was raised poorly rather than had a legitimate thing.

I lift weights to maintain my sanity. I need that physical outlet for my internal frustrations. I don't like a lot of people around...in some cases I become very self conscious to the point of not being able to walk without difficulty. I like that most people aren't interested in working out an hour before closing.

I wouldnt describe myself as a bodybuilder, but I work out 3-4 times a week, spending some 30 mins doing cardio work and 60-90 min doing weights of various types.
Given my age, I'm not trying to bulk up, but maintain reasonable fitness and slowly improve my strength levels.
It's a major stress relief for me, too, althugh I tend to find I do a more intense work out on my own than with my current gym partner.
edit: I also prefer weight lifting because it's not competitive against people, or reliant on having fast reactions, or good hand eye co-ordination, teamwork etc.

Bumping this thread for more feedback.

I have a reasonably-equipped free weight gym, but I am an extreme hard-gainer.

My program is basically a split routine (legs one day, another group the next, etc) with heavy weights and 3 sets of 10 reps.

Diet is high protein and 15x my weight in lbs in calories.

I get stronger this way, but not bigger - what am I doing wrong?

be curious if any AS people have done steroids and what their results were (increased anxiety?).