Weight lifting for women

Vanguard1

jemhh wrote: »

@Vanguard1 Getting some smaller plates for smaller increases may help. Switching over to 5x3 instead of 5x5 may help as well, I know that Mark Rippetoe has written about women doing well with 5x3 (that matches my experience too.)

However, if she's looking for something different from the 5s, 5s, sets of 5s thing, Strong Curves by Bret Contreras is great. It's a book that has 4 programs. One is full body all bodyweight exercises. Two are full body (beginner and advanced) lifting programs. The fourth is a lifting program for lower body only. Plus, he includes a template for building your own program. Plus plus, a big chunk of the book is an exercise glossary that shows several different exercises for each type of movement so if you don't have the equipment to do X, you can do Z, etc.

Thanks

KickboxFanatic

mcraw75 wrote: »

Vanguard1 wrote: »

Any advice for programs for my 14 year old daughter? She is currently has been doing Stronglifts with me (just to make sure she sticks with it) for about 3 weeks, but she is already beginning to stall. I would like to get her started on something of her own. In the basement we have a squat cage, barbell, dumbells, bench, curl bar and a power tower. Thanks

Consult her pediatrician. Lifting weights over body weight can damage growth plates in children.

No, it actually doesn't. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445252/

ijsantos2005

Consult her pediatrician. Lifting weights over body weight can damage growth plates in children.[/quote]

Myth.

mustb60

Larissa_NY wrote: »

misha1505 wrote: »

Any suggestions for staying focused? Staying motivated and feeling like a women while lifitng?

I don't need to feel like a woman because I am a woman. I mean, that's just a basic fact of my existence. Nothing I can do short of gender reassignment surgery is going to turn me into a man. This is true no matter how I'm dressed, whether or not I'm wearing makeup, or how much I'm squatting.

Femininity isn't a clubbing outfit. If you're worried about putting it on or being seen without it in public, you probably borrowed it from women's magazines. It's not yours. Give it back and get your own.

Succinctly nailed it. Going to quote it from now on.

sammyliftsandeats

I hit 80lbs on bench press for 5 reps this morning. I felt very accomplished and proud of myself.

That's what lifting does to you. It makes you feel strong and confident.

Cattree2002

sammyliftsandeats wrote: »

I hit 80lbs on bench press for 5 reps this morning. I felt very accomplished and proud of myself.

That's what lifting does to you. It makes you feel strong and confident.

Ooh! Me too! We're awesome!!