Is that true?

KingaS32
KingaS32 Posts: 73
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How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.
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  • Veil5577
    Veil5577 Posts: 868 Member
    I lifted weights for two years a long time ago, lifted up to 40 lb weights and I never bulked up like a man.
  • Nix_Way
    Nix_Way Posts: 201 Member
    I've heard over and over by many ppl who lift heavy that unless your doping, you're not going to bulk up like a man.
    Now.. I'm not saying that this is gospel!.. but this is from ppl who know a lot about lifting.
  • fitfabforties
    fitfabforties Posts: 370 Member
    just no......that's wrong.....you will get strong and lean....I squatted 100lbs on the squat rack the other day.....first time at that weight....it was awesome.....my legs felt great.....go for it!!!!
  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.


    Lift ALL the weight!!!
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    That's 110% untrue. I bench 120. Deadlift 170. I look nothing like a man.
  • kaaaaylee
    kaaaaylee Posts: 398
    Women do not bulk when they lift heavy, they 'tone'.

    Lift the heaviest weights you can with good form. Trust me on this.
  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    Tell that someone...something bad!

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  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,337 Member
    You will start to look amazing when you lift as heavy as you can with good form, especially if you follow a good progressive program where there are regularly scheduled increases in weight that continue to challenge you. I am guessing whoever told you this doesn't want to you have a smoking hot body or the heath that comes from being strong.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    If you want to look like a man, get a sex change.
    If you want to be strong, trim, and look great, lift as heavy as you can.

    You won't get manly. Ever.
  • yafidgym
    yafidgym Posts: 5
    there is a difference between men and women all about Hormones and testosterone so impossible .:smile:
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.
  • madhatter2013
    madhatter2013 Posts: 1,547 Member
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  • madhatter2013
    madhatter2013 Posts: 1,547 Member
    no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

    That could just be the hair dude...
  • Mikkimeow
    Mikkimeow Posts: 1,282 Member
    no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

    It has nothing to do with the hair.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

    My four-year-old is 43 pounds. What to do?
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  • Hophead43
    Hophead43 Posts: 1,634 Member
    no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

    Is that because you have long hair or due to your chest hair being groomed into a heart?? LOL :wink:
  • dlionsmane
    dlionsmane Posts: 674 Member
    Back in the heyday my PR's were bench 135 and squat over 200. I was never 'bulky'.

    Now is another story... lol. But no, just no. You will not get bulky! Won't happen!
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

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  • asdelmonte
    asdelmonte Posts: 171 Member
    First, that is total BS as women can't get manly looking without hormones and/or surgery.

    Second, you don't build muscles overnight. Try lifting and IF you start to look more muscular than you want you can always stop lifting and let those muscles atrophy. But, I highly doubt you will ever get to that point.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    be careful you're vagina might actually fall out- I carry mine in a colostomy bag because at this point it just falls out all the time from heavy lifting.

    also women ask me out because of how manly I am!!!!
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    be careful you're vagina might actually fall out- I carry mine in a colostomy bag because at this point it just falls out all the time from heavy lifting.

    also women ask me out because of how manly I am!!!!

    I would totally ask you out. We could get nachos with yogurt instead of sour cream.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    No, that's not true. That's just what THEY want you to think. Mostly so that when you don't get results you will go out desperately in search of diet pills, body wraps, and expensive shakes you have to add 20 more ingredients to just to choke it down.
  • asdelmonte
    asdelmonte Posts: 171 Member
    be careful you're vagina might actually fall out

    Dammit, I thought I only needed to worry about that when I was running a marathon. You mean to tell me I need to worry about it at the gym, too?
  • KingaS32
    KingaS32 Posts: 73
    No, that's not true. That's just what THEY want you to think. Mostly so that when you don't get results you will go out desperately in search of diet pills, body wraps, and expensive shakes you have to add 20 more ingredients to just to choke it down.


    I totally need to see results because if I don't I lose my motivation. I take only one pill (B4) once a day
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    be careful you're vagina might actually fall out

    Dammit, I thought I only needed to worry about that when I was running a marathon. You mean to tell me I need to worry about it at the gym, too?

    Yup

    http://www.emedicinehealth.com/vaginal_prolapse/page2_em.htm
  • KingaS32
    KingaS32 Posts: 73
    no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

    No comment lol
  • KingaS32
    KingaS32 Posts: 73
    just no......that's wrong.....you will get strong and lean....I squatted 100lbs on the squat rack the other day.....first time at that weight....it was awesome.....my legs felt great.....go for it!!!!

    I can't still do that but someday I hope ! Do you have like strength training schedule during a week?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

    :laugh:
  • johnbatzer
    johnbatzer Posts: 17 Member
    Lift. Lift heavy for low reps.

    You're not going to "look like a man" unless you're supplementing with questionable substances. If anyone tells you that "you'll look like a man," it means that they don't want you looking better and/or getting stronger than them.

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