I Don't Want To Get Too Big

Elzecat

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randomtai

I wish my muscles would accidentally get too big. :grumble:

Will_Thrust_For_Candy

<----Wants to be bulky. Apparently its only easy for women that are dieting.

:laugh:

cafeaulait7

bump fpr later love lifting but dont want to become a bodybuilder already doing twice my weight on legs and hae had a few comments about looking bigger and spooked so info will be great because I am not stopping I love lfting too much.

Well, the article basically says to stop progressing in your case (because it's impossible is the main implication), then and just keep the same routine. I disagree, because I do think that what you might see in the beginning will not progress in a linear fashion at all. You'll get to a point where things don't look bigger without a ton of work, and your muscles might actually start to look smaller. That's about glycogen storage as far as I understand it.

It's hard to discuss, though, because I think what some women see is temporary 'swelling' for lack of a better word. Maybe someone else can describe it better, but I don't like the implication that no woman's muscles ever get bigger -- even temporarily -- when starting heavy weights. It's not new gains (except in certain more rare circumstances), but I don't understand why the phenomenon is so often skimmed over as impossible (for the person to be seeing). Maybe most people don't get muscle swell or whatever it's be called? Dunno.

My swell deflated after many weeks, though, and I'm sad. I'm glad I kept up heavy and continued to progress, because I'd be floored if my muscles 'went down' and my strength hadn't at least been increasing in the meantime

kathrinnbauer

Thanks for the sarcasm. I am aware of the fact that I will not get as bulky as you want to be. But nevertheless there is the theoretical possibility that I end up being or seeming bulkier than what I consider beautiful on a woman's body. After starting resistance training my muscles look bigger, my balance tells me for some reason that I seemed to have gained muscle and I get mocked about once a year for having calves like a male football player, having a too pronounced quadriceps or whatever - and that was before I restarted exercising. Part of the women in my family seem rather bulky for being women. So yeah, I am worried that I might end up with more muscle or seeming bulkier than what I want to look like.

<----Wants to be bulky. Apparently its only easy for women that are dieting.

randomtai

Thanks for the sarcasm. I am aware of the fact that I will not get as bulky as you want to be. But nevertheless there is the theoretical possibility that I end up being or seeming bulkier than what I consider beautiful on a woman's body. After starting resistance training my muscles look bigger, my balance tells me for some reason that I seemed to have gained muscle and I get mocked about once a year for having calves like a male football player, having a too pronounced quadriceps or whatever - and that was before I restarted exercising. Part of the women in my family seem rather bulky for being women. So yeah, I am worried that I might end up with more muscle or seeming bulkier than what I want to look like.

<----Wants to be bulky. Apparently its only easy for women that are dieting.

Keep your BF% high. Problem solved. :flowerforyou:

Also quotes go at the top, responses go towards the bottom. Less confusing that way. :flowerforyou:

JTick

And the trainer in my gym (years ago) told my that I would be rather successful if I started Olympic weightlifting because in his opinion I could easily gain the strength that is necessary for it.

Strength is not synonymous with muscle. My strength has skyrocketed, at the same time I am in a deficit. Because I am in a deficit, it is not because I added muscle. It is because my body is adapting to what I'm asking it to do and becoming stronger.

mustgetmuscles1

Thanks for the sarcasm. I am aware of the fact that I will not get as bulky as you want to be. But nevertheless there is the theoretical possibility that I end up being or seeming bulkier than what I consider beautiful on a woman's body. After starting resistance training my muscles look bigger, my balance tells me for some reason that I seemed to have gained muscle and I get mocked about once a year for having calves like a male football player, having a too pronounced quadriceps or whatever - and that was before I restarted exercising. Part of the women in my family seem rather bulky for being women. So yeah, I am worried that I might end up with more muscle or seeming bulkier than what I want to look like.

<----Wants to be bulky. Apparently its only easy for women that are dieting.

My post was not aimed at you but at the article and the many people that think they gain muscle "easily" even while dieting. I didnt even read any of the responses after reading the article.

kathrinnbauer

And the trainer in my gym (years ago) told my that I would be rather successful if I started Olympic weightlifting because in his opinion I could easily gain the strength that is necessary for it.

Strength is not synonymous with muscle. My strength has skyrocketed, at the same time I am in a deficit. Because I am in a deficit, it is not because I added muscle. It is because my body is adapting to what I'm asking it to do and becoming stronger.

Then I got the article wrong. (English is not my native language). I thought if he states that there aren't different types of muscles and that you can just gain or not gain, he meant that you just train your muscle and how you train will not change whether you gain more strength or more volume or whatever. He just referred to what the muscles look like?

kathrinnbauer

Thanks for the sarcasm. I am aware of the fact that I will not get as bulky as you want to be. But nevertheless there is the theoretical possibility that I end up being or seeming bulkier than what I consider beautiful on a woman's body. After starting resistance training my muscles look bigger, my balance tells me for some reason that I seemed to have gained muscle and I get mocked about once a year for having calves like a male football player, having a too pronounced quadriceps or whatever - and that was before I restarted exercising. Part of the women in my family seem rather bulky for being women. So yeah, I am worried that I might end up with more muscle or seeming bulkier than what I want to look like.

<----Wants to be bulky. Apparently its only easy for women that are dieting.

My post was not aimed at you but at the article and the many people that think they gain muscle "easily" even while dieting. I didnt even read any of the responses after reading the article.

Then I got you wrong. Good that I did not react to impulsively then

cafeaulait7

And the trainer in my gym (years ago) told my that I would be rather successful if I started Olympic weightlifting because in his opinion I could easily gain the strength that is necessary for it.

Strength is not synonymous with muscle. My strength has skyrocketed, at the same time I am in a deficit. Because I am in a deficit, it is not because I added muscle. It is because my body is adapting to what I'm asking it to do and becoming stronger.

Then I got the article wrong. (English is not my native language). I thought if he states that there aren't different types of muscles and that you can just gain or not gain, he meant that you just train your muscle and how you train will not change whether you gain more strength or more volume or whatever. He just referred to what the muscles look like?

Your neurological system adapts to eek out great strength from existing muscle. Pretty cool that way!


And the author gives his answer, too, in the comments:
"AWorkoutRoutine says

January 21, 2014 at 5:59 pm

Correct. Training primarily for strength (meaning you’re doing what’s most conducive for the goal of pure strength) will likely work well for building muscle assuming you eat to support it… but it would not work as well as if you trained primarily for muscle growth...."

kathrinnbauer

And the trainer in my gym (years ago) told my that I would be rather successful if I started Olympic weightlifting because in his opinion I could easily gain the strength that is necessary for it.

Strength is not synonymous with muscle. My strength has skyrocketed, at the same time I am in a deficit. Because I am in a deficit, it is not because I added muscle. It is because my body is adapting to what I'm asking it to do and becoming stronger.

Then I got the article wrong. (English is not my native language). I thought if he states that there aren't different types of muscles and that you can just gain or not gain, he meant that you just train your muscle and how you train will not change whether you gain more strength or more volume or whatever. He just referred to what the muscles look like?

Your neurological system adapts to eek out great strength from existing muscle. Pretty cool that way!


And the author gives his answer, too, in the comments:
"AWorkoutRoutine says

January 21, 2014 at 5:59 pm

Correct. Training primarily for strength (meaning you’re doing what’s most conducive for the goal of pure strength) will likely work well for building muscle assuming you eat to support it… but it would not work as well as if you trained primarily for muscle growth...."

That's cool. So then I can just train for strength once I reached my goal weight and if that will get boring I can care about other things I really thought by saying you can just gain or not gain he said that hypertrophy vs. strength gains was nothing that could be influenced...

LuLuChick78

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