Just a question?
WilliamVE
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Do i need to work on a different muscle group every day or can I do multiple in 1 day but still hitting all the muscles in that week?
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Goals?0
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Lose weight and gain muscle0
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Is the muscle sore:
Yes = Dont Work it
No = Destroy it
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Lose weight and gain muscle
In your other thread you said you didn't want to bulk.
You don't gain muscle (significant amounts of it anyway) while in a caloric deficit, no matter what your training program is. And from the meals you posted in the other thread, you're eating at a very large deficit with very little protein. That's more conducive to muscle loss than gain.6 -
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I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.0
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hollyberry061082 wrote: »I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.
I would be very careful with Stronglifts, since you are new to weights. While the program is awesome, the increase in weight can be quite aggressive, so the form gotta be right in point.2 -
You don't.
Right now I do two full body circuit workouts a week, one upper body and one lower body a week. I am not looking for gainz right now though, I don't want to look like a man. So, what are your goals?
You could do 3 full body too1 -
Ironandwine69 wrote: »hollyberry061082 wrote: »I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.
I would be very careful with Stronglifts, since you are new to weights. While the program is awesome, the increase in weight can be quite aggressive, so the form gotta be right in point.
Is there another one you could recommend? Like I said, I'm quite new to weights and just want something that I will stick to.0 -
hollyberry061082 wrote: »Ironandwine69 wrote: »hollyberry061082 wrote: »I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.
I would be very careful with Stronglifts, since you are new to weights. While the program is awesome, the increase in weight can be quite aggressive, so the form gotta be right in point.
Is there another one you could recommend? Like I said, I'm quite new to weights and just want something that I will stick to.
I would go with the original Starting Strength (strong lifts is just a rip off of it). Buy the book. It has all the info on how and why to do the lifts.0 -
hollyberry061082 wrote: »Ironandwine69 wrote: »hollyberry061082 wrote: »I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.
I would be very careful with Stronglifts, since you are new to weights. While the program is awesome, the increase in weight can be quite aggressive, so the form gotta be right in point.
Is there another one you could recommend? Like I said, I'm quite new to weights and just want something that I will stick to.
I would go with the original Starting Strength (strong lifts is just a rip off of it). Buy the book. It has all the info on how and why to do the lifts.
Thanks! I'll have a look!1 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
Exactly! Me too!0 -
Ironandwine69 wrote: »You don't.
Right now I do two full body circuit workouts a week, one upper body and one lower body a week. I am not looking for gainz right now though, I don't want to look like a man. So, what are your goals?
You could do 3 full body too
Dang. Hate you said that you "don't want to look like a man". You can't, at least not without surgery or hormone help. I don't want women to be scared of weight training/heavy lifting, ect.
And StongLifts is still a great program. Here is a link that gives great information. Take a look.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p14 -
Follow a program rather than just working out random exercises in the gym and spinning your wheels.
Fullbody programs... look up Greyskull linear progression, Stronglifts 5x5, Starting Strength, etc.0 -
Ironandwine69 wrote: »You don't.
Right now I do two full body circuit workouts a week, one upper body and one lower body a week. I am not looking for gainz right now though, I don't want to look like a man. So, what are your goals?
You could do 3 full body too
Um, wut?!?
Perhaps you could peruse this link, @Ironandwine69?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/977538/halp-heavy-lifting-made-me-supah-bulky/p13 -
As long as you avoid anabolic steroids, that will never be a problem you'll have to worry about.Ironandwine69 wrote: »You don't.
Right now I do two full body circuit workouts a week, one upper body and one lower body a week. I am not looking for gainz right now though, I don't want to look like a man. So, what are your goals?
You could do 3 full body too
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hollyberry061082 wrote: »Ironandwine69 wrote: »hollyberry061082 wrote: »I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.
I would be very careful with Stronglifts, since you are new to weights. While the program is awesome, the increase in weight can be quite aggressive, so the form gotta be right in point.
Is there another one you could recommend? Like I said, I'm quite new to weights and just want something that I will stick to.
There's nothing wrong with SL. It's a well-known, well-designed beginner's lifting program.0 -
hollyberry061082 wrote: »Ironandwine69 wrote: »hollyberry061082 wrote: »I'm quite new to weights but I downloaded the Stronglifts 5x5 app. It's free. There are 2 workouts and you perform 3 workouts a week. I found it easy to follow.
I would be very careful with Stronglifts, since you are new to weights. While the program is awesome, the increase in weight can be quite aggressive, so the form gotta be right in point.
Is there another one you could recommend? Like I said, I'm quite new to weights and just want something that I will stick to.
There's nothing wrong with SL. It's a well-known, well-designed beginner's lifting program.
But if someone wants a different option: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p11 -
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mralexjones wrote: »Serena Williams for example is pretty masculine looking despite what I believe to be 100% natural. Some Oly female lifters look pretty masculine, but others still feminine.
I know this is just an opinion but Serena Williams is pretty far from "masculine" looking by just about any metric. Unless we're just talking about arm definition, which I don't think is fair.2 -
mralexjones wrote: »When it comes to any weight lifter regardless of gender, it is difficult to tell if they're natural or not. That and personal genetics play a role in their physique.
Serena Williams for example is pretty masculine looking despite what I believe to be 100% natural. Some Oly female lifters look pretty masculine, but others still feminine.
In this video of 2016 Oly European women weight lifters, most of them look pretty masculine in musculature:
So it really depends on a woman's personal aesthetic is, but becoming more masculine looking is definitely possible for some women through weight lifting.
What Olympians and elite professional athletes do hardly correlates to Joe/Jane Average. It's also a stretch to automatically assume that an Olympic lifter is natural (i.e. not steroid enhanced). The science of cycling on/off drugs and using masking agents to fool blood tests has gotten quite sophisticated.
Yes, if you have freakish genetics, a full-time dietitian, trainer and support team on staff and the time to do nothing but train, eat and rest every day, one can accomplish some pretty spectacular things. That's usually not the case for most average people who are trying to get in shape/improve their physique.
Women, on average, have about 1/10 the amount of testosterone that men do, and even most men struggle to put on significant muscle mass without resorting to anabolics. For those who do manage it without "supplementation", it takes years and years of hard, consistent work. It won't just sneak up on you out of nowhere and all of a sudden you wake up one morning looking like a stage-ready IFBB pro. No matter how hard you train, you'll have plenty of time to see it coming and make adaptations in your training to avoid getting "too masculine".
Read through the thread linked above - there are plenty of examples of women who lift, and some who lift quite heavy. I don't see any examples of "masculine looking" women in that thread, unless you're defining "more masculine" as broadly as just having any degree of visible muscle definition/mass. I'll link the thread again because it's worth the reference: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/977538/halp-heavy-lifting-made-me-supah-bulky/p11 -
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mralexjones wrote: »When it comes to any weight lifter regardless of gender, it is difficult to tell if they're natural or not. That and personal genetics play a role in their physique.
Serena Williams for example is pretty masculine looking despite what I believe to be 100% natural. Some Oly female lifters look pretty masculine, but others still feminine.
In this video of 2016 Oly European women weight lifters, most of them look pretty masculine in musculature:
https://youtu.be/lCKzpYcDKUg
So it really depends on a woman's personal aesthetic is, but becoming more masculine looking is definitely possible for some women through weight lifting.
I believe I heard a podcast where Rippetoe and one of the powerlifting doctors who are strength coaches under him (probably Jordan or maybe Austin) were saying nearly every elite female athlete have both the XY chromosomes. They sited one of the Williams sisters, though I'm not sure if both or if they knew exactly for that matter. I believe they also said top five female crossfire pros.
It makes total sense if they as females could recruit more muscle motors than the average female who are just above average athletes.0
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