How to lift, tone and minimize muscles

hmcbride68

I want to look like Seth Rogan but not Ryan Reynolds. How do I do that?

deksgrl

hmcbride68 wrote: »

I want to look like Seth Rogan but not Ryan Reynolds. How do I do that?

Eat donuts and don't comb your hair or beard for weeks at a time.

ttcbelieve

kelly_e_montana wrote: »

WTH is a lean muscle? Muscle is muscle and fat is fat. Grrr.

Kelly, agreed. thats what i am finding out from the other posters. its not about muscles but body fat. I have never paid any attention to body fat

ttcbelieve

hmcbride68 wrote: »

I want to look like Seth Rogan but not Ryan Reynolds. How do I do that?

Nope...i want to look like Mr Snuffleupagus but not Kermit the frog. How can i do that

ttcbelieve

auddii wrote: »

If you accept that your muscles are like not too big yet, which I doubt they are if you're being objective, I would probably pick a beginning strength program. But, that's really my own bias because when I do higher rep I think "12 is so many! " and my brain wants to give up before my body.

Find a program that works for you, and whatever program it is should have a progression schedule for when to increase weight. I did strong lifts 5x5 and really enjoined it, but there are lots of programs.

Good luck with the lifting. I think as long as you don't cut too lean (which is hard to do unintentionally) you're really going to like the changes in your body once you start lifting.

Audii...thanks for your recommendation. i believe the problem is my diet. I'll keep lifting since i like it but watch my diet or at least be more cognizant that the diet is the problem and not the lifting. i like lifting so i know i'm not giving that up

HeySwoleSister

I want to look like Mary Kate Olsen, but not Ashley Olsen. Once I dye my hair blonde and buy a lot of baggy black clothes, what should I do?

tomatoey

aggelikik wrote: »

I am a little bit confused by your expectations. At your height and a goal weight of 145 lbs or so, you cannot get a "thin" look (if I understand what you mean by "thin"), unless you work really hard on having low body fat and more muscles, which you claim it is not a look you are going for. If the goal is to look really thin, as in movie star thin, and do this without gaining muscle, so just lower body fat, then you probably need to aim at losing weight, I do not think your goal weight is right for what you claim you want.
To give you an example from my personal experience, I am about your height. For me to look like the body type I think you mean, based on the examples you provided, so the thin, feminine, dancer/model etc type of body, it happened when I was doing a ton of dancing, aerobics and running, and was barely 115-116 lbs (yes, this is underweight - I was in amazing shape, but still underweight). My heaviest without trength training, was 138 lbs, and it did not look anywhere close to what you described, it looked flabby. With adding strength training, I am definitely looking better and have gained muscle, but at 130lbs, and having definitely lower body fat than I did when I started 2 years ago, I am still nowhere close to either Madonna or Anniston!

115-116 looked ghastly on my 5'7 (actually 5.65 but whatever, I round up) frame, but I generally agree with this poster. Not that the scale should be your arbiter, but I agree that a packed and lean 140 would probably not be what you want. Packed and lean and closer to 130 (depending on your frame), and probably less than that, will get you nearer to the look you are describing, imo.

The advice to lift at your current maintenance calories and then lean down later is good, imo. The so-called "skinny fat" look is not a great reward for all the hard work that precedes it (I speak from experience). And by the time you get there, the idea of gaining weight, even for muscle, is psychologically difficult. Much, much better to have some muscle on you already and then lose the fat.