I have trained on weights ever since I was a teen, mainly because my stepdad did and he was swoll and everyone treated him with respect, and I got seriously into lifting weights and eating clean in college. I ate at maintenance and trained high reps when I lived in LA and my band Look What I Did was playing the clubs and all that, trying to keep that Iggy Pop look. I hurt my back on tour and got out of shape, so I used strength training while overweight to regain my muscle that I lost touring and not working out. I restarted working out hardcore about a year and a half or so.

I used it to quit drinking during a severe alcoholism bout in my early 20s. I'm an exertion addict. I simply traded the addition. :) I get endorphins this way. The experimentation with how my body looks is just kindof an extra fun perk to play with.