I love lifting weights!

distinctlybeautiful
distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
That's all. It's a newfound love, so I'm super excited!

In the interest of making this thread a little less useless, I'll ask you this. What's your favorite thing about lifting?

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  • discretekim
    discretekim Posts: 314 Member
    Haha! Do you do machines or free weights?
  • slideaway1
    slideaway1 Posts: 1,006 Member
    Good for you. Weirdly I have become strangely spiritual and content because of lifting. Fu@k knows what that's all about lol!
  • ElizabethKalmbach
    ElizabethKalmbach Posts: 1,415 Member
    I love that it's efficient and uncomplicated. I also love that I can do that and it still looks like I dance, not lift.
  • 1mumrevolution
    1mumrevolution Posts: 269 Member
    New recruit. I started my barbell lifting today. I am so happy. I am clean/pressing 20kgs to start. I'm also lunging and squatting with this weight. Goal is to shred BF and tone up.
  • slideaway1
    slideaway1 Posts: 1,006 Member
    1mumrevolution wrote: »
    New recruit. I started my barbell lifting today. I am so happy. I am clean/pressing 20kgs to start. I'm also lunging and squatting with this weight. Goal is to shred BF and tone up.

    Great job. Is that you in your profile pic? very impressive. How long do you hold that position for?
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    My favorite thing about lifting? It makes me look good nekkid! ;) And it's made this pregnancy a breeze.
  • meexwalks
    meexwalks Posts: 14 Member
    distinctlybeautiful wrote: »
    What's your favorite thing about lifting?

    I love and crave the soreness in the day or two after a good session. Also, the results!
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Favorite part: Every time I add another 5 lbs to the bar.

    Least favorite part: The first flight of steps after leg day
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    The confidence it has given me in all aspects of my life.
  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    Me too. I love feeling and looking strong.
  • mantium999
    mantium999 Posts: 1,490 Member
    AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »
    My favorite thing about lifting? It makes me look good nekkid! ;) And it's made this pregnancy a breeze.

    A (lifting)+B(looking good)=C (pregnant)?

    Sorry, couldn't resist :)
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    mantium999 wrote: »
    AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »
    My favorite thing about lifting? It makes me look good nekkid! ;) And it's made this pregnancy a breeze.

    A (lifting)+B(looking good)=C (pregnant)?

    Sorry, couldn't resist :)

    Lol, couldn't keep my husband off me ;)
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I love feeling strong. I love the actual act of lifting heavy things, it's relaxing. Also, I'm a very nervous/unorganized person and this is the first time in my life I've ever kept track of anything. I can't tell you how much money is in my bank account or how much I owe the IRS but I can tell you how much I lifted yesterday and what I plan on lifting today and how many grams of protein I ate, etc. It makes me feel put together.

    Plus, I look a hell of a lot better.
  • 1mumrevolution
    1mumrevolution Posts: 269 Member
    slideaway1 wrote: »
    1mumrevolution wrote: »
    New recruit. I started my barbell lifting today. I am so happy. I am clean/pressing 20kgs to start. I'm also lunging and squatting with this weight. Goal is to shred BF and tone up.

    Great job. Is that you in your profile pic? very impressive. How long do you hold that position for?

    Ah no, that's my 9 year old son. We do acro together. I am into pole fitness and now I've got another love, the barbell. Oh, he can hold for 15 secs. Hes really good.

  • madube84
    madube84 Posts: 135 Member
    I love being the only girl on the the "boys side" :D
    ALSO... I like the progress. Its an awesome feeling with I can lift something that I was struggling with the week before. Makes me feel like a badass.
  • CarlydogsMom
    CarlydogsMom Posts: 645 Member
    Another fan here. Wish I started decades ago instead of in my 50's, but SO GLAD that I got going. It's changed my life for the better. I can't stop lifting things over my head--watermelons, bags of dog food, jugs of water, whatever--when I'm home, too. Lift lift lift.

    The soreness, accumulating data, lifting more each time, correcting some false notions I had about nutrition, all great stuff. But I have to say, probably one of the best things of all---is that I no longer fret about my scale weight! After having lost a bunch of weight, I was actually pretty good at maintaining and realizing that daily fluctuations within a 5-pound window are nothing to freak out about. But I'd still panic a bit when the scale would creep up.

    Now, with weight lifting, I went on a slow bulk and gained 10-12 pounds over the winter without batting an eye. And when I started a slight cut, and didn't see much of a change, it was like "whatever...." Things will fall in place. I'm so happy I'm not obsessing over the scale anymore, and wish I could tell everyone who IS obsessing about every ounce on the scale here on MFP (as we see it over and over and over) that there is another way!!!

  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    CarlydogsMom wrote: »
    Another fan here. Wish I started decades ago instead of in my 50's, but SO GLAD that I got going. It's changed my life for the better. I can't stop lifting things over my head--watermelons, bags of dog food, jugs of water, whatever--when I'm home, too. Lift lift lift.

    The soreness, accumulating data, lifting more each time, correcting some false notions I had about nutrition, all great stuff. But I have to say, probably one of the best things of all---is that I no longer fret about my scale weight! After having lost a bunch of weight, I was actually pretty good at maintaining and realizing that daily fluctuations within a 5-pound window are nothing to freak out about. But I'd still panic a bit when the scale would creep up.

    Now, with weight lifting, I went on a slow bulk and gained 10-12 pounds over the winter without batting an eye. And when I started a slight cut, and didn't see much of a change, it was like "whatever...." Things will fall in place. I'm so happy I'm not obsessing over the scale anymore, and wish I could tell everyone who IS obsessing about every ounce on the scale here on MFP (as we see it over and over and over) that there is another way!!!

    I'm so ready to stop obsessing. Not there yet though :( Thanks for sharing!
  • thesupremeforce
    thesupremeforce Posts: 1,206 Member
    I like doing curls in the squat rack.

    Okay, to actually answer the question, I like moving heavier weights than I could previously.
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    discretekim wrote: »
    Haha! Do you do machines or free weights?

    A little of both. Squats and benching are probably my favorite exercises right now.
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    madube84 wrote: »
    I love being the only girl on the the "boys side" :D
    ALSO... I like the progress. Its an awesome feeling with I can lift something that I was struggling with the week before. Makes me feel like a badass.

    Agreed!
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