I'm a girl....with a question about lifting weights?!!!

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  • sjaplo
    sjaplo Posts: 974 Member

    I'm sick of people saying there is no such thing as "toned" or "tone." Language is used to share meaning and almost everyone on here knows what you mean. It's an issue of semantics with a signifier of "toned" denoting "appearing taut, less fat with more apparent muscle." Who cares if it's not technically true? People rarely get confused about what one means if he/she says, "I want to look toned." So in terms of semantics and pragmatics, talking about "getting toned" is an exceptionally clear way to share meaning among people, regardless of whether it is technically sound in terms of biology.

    Language is important - accepted words change all the time usually due to someones idea of political correctness. And I understand where you are coming from, but if we are all going to discuss the same thing we should use the same language and we should use it accurately. Check out the third sentence of the paragraph below.

    muscle tone syn tonus (1) in skeletal muscle, a state of tension that is maintained continuously - minimally even when relaxed - and which increases in resistance to passive stretch. Pathologically, loss of tone (flaccidity) can be caused, e.g. by peripheral nerve damage, and exaggerated tone (spasticity) by overstimulation, e.g. when the activity of the relevant lower motor neurons is released from higher CNS control in spinal injury. The term is sometimes also used, incorrectly, to indicate general muscle strength. (2) In smooth muscle, steady tension maintained in the walls of hollow vessels; regulated mainly by autonomic innervation but influenced, e.g. in the walls of arterioles, by local variables: temperature, chemical factors or intravascular pressure, contributing to autoregulation of appropriate blood flow. See also stretch reflex.
  • Lofteren
    Lofteren Posts: 960 Member


    First off lifting moderate weights at fast pace,,, pointless, very slow pace is the way to go!

    It's called dynamic effort training and it is used by some of the strongest lifters in the world. it was perfected at the Westside Barbell in Ohio by a man named Louie Simmons. A moderate/slow tempo increases time under tension which will promote muscle hypertrophy; whereas lifting explosively will increase neurological recruitment which is ultimately the adaptation that allows people to become stronger. You should educate yourself before you go off calling things pointless.
  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    My son was born with Michelin Man arms.
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  • iPlatano
    iPlatano Posts: 487 Member
    Just eat at a calorie deficit lift weight do some cardio if you want to and fat will come off soon! Women cant build muscle that fast!
  • Ashes_To_Beast
    Ashes_To_Beast Posts: 378 Member


    First off lifting moderate weights at fast pace,,, pointless, very slow pace is the way to go!

    It's called dynamic effort training and it is used by some of the strongest lifters in the world. it was perfected at the Westside Barbell in Ohio by a man named Louie Simmons. A moderate/slow tempo increases time under tension which will promote muscle hypertrophy; whereas lifting explosively will increase neurological recruitment which is ultimately the adaptation that allows people to become stronger. You should educate yourself before you go off calling things pointless.

    I stand corrected. Pointless in this case. I beleive. I don't know anymore... can't we all just get along...
    Thanks for the lesson, my next step is strength training, currently focusing on hypertrophy. I had always assumed 5x5 was better for strength and the heavier the better but as you said I will read up on it. # EducateAndDominate
    :drinker:

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