Women lifting heavy - with pics

Barbellgirl

Has anyone achieved success by lifting at home?

I'm putting together a home gym and prefer working out at home. There's a few exercises though that I need the machines at the gym for that I still need to find alternates or modifications for.

kittyhasclaws

Just so you know, you have THE sexiest legs I have ever seen. A-friggin'-mazing.

pastryari

Has anyone achieved success by lifting at home?

I lift at home. I bought a barbell weight set and a power rack.

madisons_mummy

WOW everyone looks AMAZING!

I'm super jealous of every ones tummys. No one has saggy stretched marked tummys like me =(

michellekicks

WOW everyone looks AMAZING!

I'm super jealous of every ones tummys. No one has saggy stretched marked tummys like me =(

Wrong. I do.

madisons_mummy

Do you?

I never see anyone who has gotten their body fat under 20% with saggy tums

redwngs13

I just posted my own thread with this, but figured I'd also post here to reiterate heavy lifting's capabilities!

Humanovation

Just ... WOW ;-)

Humanovation

I don't lift as heavy as some on here (which I'm working towards) but lifting heavier than I ever thought i "should" as a girl (silly right?)

Gorgeous ;-)

Humanovation

That works ;-)

osewcute

Most of my lifts are in the intermediate/advanced ranges for my weight class. Bench is lagging behind, almost to intermediate, because of my surgical history, but it's catching up.

here's one of me with enormous delts and biceps



and here's one of my bulky man-physique

ROFL!!! You look amazing and your profile story is incredible:)

BinaryPulsar

I deadlifted my own body weight today for 4 sets of 8!!

Barbellgirl

Stupid boys are stupid. Maybe if we ignore him, he'll go away???

glutesandabs

Some of the women, even without taking roids, look mannish...like the lady doing dead lifts. Oh well. Some women want to be mannish. All imo.

And some people, even without showing their face, are just plain ugly... All imo.

cineshome

bumping for inspiration

sunshine1082

Very inspiring! I especially appreciate all the links and advice on lifting at home.

ghostrider1970

New lifter here! 3 months in. I wanted to get back the booty I lost while on my year of weight loss and calorie restriction, thus SQUATS are my new fave. I lift 3 days a week (splits) and do cardio and yoga maaaaybe once a week, if that. I may gain or maintain or lose (as I was at my last weigh-in, both inches and lbs), but regardless, I feel really happy lifting and am noticing more results than I've ever gotten in my stints of getting super into running/cardio. These are in order of least to most recent...apologies for drunk face in the last one lol

Stunning... and being a redhead adds 1.000.000 points

maegmez

Wow! This has been one of the most inspiring posts I have read here!

theoriginaljayne

Bumping for the awesomeness of this thread.

89nunu

Bump because you all look amazing and so I can show my sister, to get her convinced! I started 3 months ago.
<--- this is me now, still very much a work in progress!

traceyjj

Well done ladies! I just started lifting free weights 2 weeks ago. I am transitioning from the machines to go into the weight area... but I'm still too much of a chicken to go in there without the trainer LOL. Hopefully I will be able to add my before/during photos in one of these threads in a few months!
Great job ALL OF YOU.

shadus

As a man taking a look through this thread I just wanna go on the record as saying, anyone who prefers "non-bulky" to "bulky" based on these pics is flat out of their head.

These "bulky" women look absolutely stunning.

amy1612

Mannish deadlifts


and mannish non-deadlifts

Rarity2013

I think weight lifting is like anything- you can always take it to an extreme where you will be bulky, but if there's one thing this thread is proving, it's that that "toned" look everyone claims to want, both before and after, hitting their goal weight is found in heavy lifting land.

I can't afford either a gym membership or to have this stuff at home, but why anyone who does go to the gym would not attack the weights after seeing this, I do not know.

jw203

Here are the first photos I've ever posted on here! In normal clothes and definitely looking bulkier in the 'before'.

The during is after a 20 pound-ish loss and before any 'heavy' lifting - just circuits and body weight stuff really. And a lot of running.

The after is from a couple of weeks ago after doing stronglifts for a couple of months. I'm also still running a lot, but my diet has only gotten properly back on track over the last few weeks.

Before (May? 2012):

During:

After (June 2013):


I don't know that there's much difference in the last two, but I definitely haven't gotten bulkier.

jw203

Oh, I also wanted to add that these sorts of threads are exactly what inspired me to start lifting, so thanks!

BarbellCowgirl

Stumbling across one of these threads is what got me off my butt and into the gym. So here goes:

missmidge84

I can't post pics at work, but my profile pic is progress from 2.5 months of lifting. I currently do the Strong Curves routine by Bret Contreras.

heatherln04

bump

emirror

All ya'll ladies look amazing!