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Heavy lifting is the BEST, if your body can handle it without breaking, of course. I figure, I'm going to be sore anyway, so why not lift as much as I possibly can?? Pain is pain, and whether you're going for "toning" or going for "gaining" (lean muscle, that is), pretty much it allllll hurts the same. Might as well pack on the muscle mass (= calorie burning body mass), and be stronger. Trust me ladies, unless you're juicing (a la Arnold-style, not the Vitamix thing!), you will NOT get all weird and man-looking. We just don't have the testosterone to look like that. I used to be all freaked out about it (when I was younger and lifting H-E-A-V-Y), and sure enough, I always just looked like a girl.
Anyway, just my lifting rant. Finished my arms & shoulders day. Oweeee. Gonna hurt tomorrow. It's all good!0 -
Heavy lifting is the BEST, if your body can handle it without breaking, of course. I figure, I'm going to be sore anyway, so why not lift as much as I possibly can?? Pain is pain, and whether you're going for "toning" or going for "gaining" (lean muscle, that is), pretty much it allllll hurts the same. Might as well pack on the muscle mass (= calorie burning body mass), and be stronger. Trust me ladies, unless you're juicing (a la Arnold-style, not the Vitamix thing!), you will NOT get all weird and man-looking. We just don't have the testosterone to look like that. I used to be all freaked out about it (when I was younger and lifting H-E-A-V-Y), and sure enough, I always just looked like a girl.
Anyway, just my lifting rant. Finished my arms & shoulders day. Oweeee. Gonna hurt tomorrow. It's all good!
Doesn't it drive you crazy when you tell people that you lift and they think you want to be like Arnold and are going to grow an adam's apple?! I bought a Monster Muscle and the cashier asked me if I was trying to bulk up. Went with my sister when she signed up at a local gym, told the "personal trainer" that I wanted to start lifting. She said I would need to eat more calories than I'm burning, and she's supposed to be the professional. Makes me crazy.0 -
I want to add lifting into my workouts eventually. Right now I have been concentrating on cardio and trying to get some weight off first. I want to be ale to flap the heavy comforter across my bed when I am making it up and not feel like my arms are gonna fall off. LOL!!0
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Had a nice NSV today - I've been working my way through C25K and it's been tough just about every day. Today, I got all the way through and went "Wait, that's it? I'm finished and still feeling good?" so I added an extra chunk of running into my walk home from the park...and I still didn't feel like I was dying.0
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WOW!
The calories you ingest when drinking. Drinking itself is bad calorie-wise..add in a potluck appetizer= :ohwell: :drinker:0 -
I want to add lifting into my workouts eventually. Right now I have been concentrating on cardio and trying to get some weight off first. I want to be ale to flap the heavy comforter across my bed when I am making it up and not feel like my arms are gonna fall off. LOL!!
^^I thought the same thing when I first started out. I talked to two different trainers & they both said cardio is good for you, but lifting weights are even better. You should do more weight lifting then cardio throughout the week. Building lean muscle will help with fat loss, and it will also help pull your skin back as you lose weight; which that way you wont get loose skin. It will seem like your weight loss slows down but its just because you gaining muscle, but you can def feel it in your clothes.
My trainer told me this which has stuck with me "If cardio was the key to weight loss, then there would be no point to have gyms or a trainer. Everyone would be thin if all you had to do was walk." Makes sense right???0
