should women lift weights?
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love it!!0
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Great post!! So true....0
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Absolutely! Not only does it tone you up, it will actually make you lose body fat a lot faster than doing cardio.0
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haha love it0
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lol very true
am doing weights with cardio as well 0 -
ha ha ha...0
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LOW W8S HI REPS GUYZ0
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lol!0
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Stop lying. This won't happen. I won't grow 5 inches, get lighter skin, grow longer hair, and have the body of a super model (or porn star...). So keep your lies to yourself lady.0
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Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
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@HorrorChix89! " Stop lying. This won't happen. I won't grow 5 inches, get lighter skin, grow longer hair, and have the body of a super model (or porn star...). So keep your lies to yourself lady. "
Hahaha! Loved it!0 -
It's not that simple. I'm all for strength training, and I do it, but some women do get bigger -- not enormous, but larger than they'd like in certain areas.
The first woman in the photo may be taking steroids. The second woman looks as she does because of her genetics. It's sort of like just because you study ballet doesn't mean you'll have the body of a ballerina. You have to be born with that basic shape.0 -
Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
Why?
notsure if srs.. but i'll answer anyways...
steroids.0 -
Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
Why?
Woman in picture one will train for hours and hours a week, eat like 5000 calories a day and most likely takes steroids or hormones - and most importantly she is aiming to look like that! It's very hard for women to bulk up, and impossible to bulk up quickly or by accident xD0 -
Stop lying. This won't happen. I won't grow 5 inches, get lighter skin, grow longer hair, and have the body of a super model (or porn star...). So keep your lies to yourself lady.
I was about to ask OP if that meant I would grow some big boobies like that when I start lifting. If so, I'll start tonight!0 -
<---- Lifts heavy weights 4 times per week.
I'm not "bulky" by any stretch of the imagination, yet I just got back from the gym a few minutes ago where I was squatting 10 pounds more than my total body weight. :flowerforyou:0 -
Yeah, I was serious. Thanks for the reply.Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
Why?
notsure if srs.. but i'll answer anyways...
steroids.0 -
CTHU!! True, true!0
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I run about 3x a week and attend boxing class on Thursday nights. The boxing class is very upper body intensive (lots of pushups, punching, sparring, skipping). I have found that I personally feel like I'm getting pretty beefy in the shoulders, biceps, lats and wonder if perhaps it's starting to go over the top.
If I were to start actively lifting weights, or hitting up more boxing classes, I think that I might end up looking less like the chick in the bottom pic, and more like the one on the top (not to THAT extreme tho).
I think some of it is genetics as to how the muscles respond to weights, and also the type of lifting you do - a lot of low weight reps, or a smaller number of heavy weight reps.
All that said...
I think I like this new beefy look... :-P0 -
Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
Why?
A little thing called Steroids...0 -
I think one of them women probably takes steroids. Women cant bulk up like that without help...lol0
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absolutely... Great video expose'0
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Absolutely they should but I'd never want to look like the top pic, no thanks! I'm a woman!0
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Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
Why?
Women have dense muscles which means we get strong but our muscle size doesn't increase much. To get size it takes a lot of work, different training techiques, very different diet and natural or artificial steroid type substance. I lift weights 7 days a week and do not have 'big' muscles. My mom is a body builder and has been trying to gain size for years and is not even half the size of above picture. She is also all natural. Lifting weights burns fat and creates a sexy toned body, don't fear them.0 -
Hell Yeah! Love it!0
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I think some of it is genetics as to how the muscles respond to weights, and also the type of lifting you do - a lot of low weight reps, or a smaller number of heavy weight reps.
This is a misconception people throw around a lot. Lots of weight, lower reps = strength and possibly size depending on your calorie intake. Little weight, higher reps = endurance training (aka, another form of cardio).
I'm not saying either way is right or wrong, but that high rep/low weight leads to "toned muscles" thing is a myth that drives me nuts.0 -
I think some of it is genetics as to how the muscles respond to weights, and also the type of lifting you do - a lot of low weight reps, or a smaller number of heavy weight reps.
This is a misconception people throw around a lot. Lots of weight, lower reps = strength and possibly size depending on your calorie intake. Little weight, higher reps = endurance training (aka, another form of cardio).
I'm not saying either way is right or wrong, but that high rep/low weight leads to "toned muscles" thing is a myth that drives me nuts.
Thanks for the correction! I've heard so many conflicting stories that I gave up trying to figure out which one is accurate. 0 -
It's not that simple. I'm all for strength training, and I do it, but some women do get bigger -- not enormous, but larger than they'd like in certain areas.
The first woman in the photo may be taking steroids. The second woman looks as she does because of her genetics. It's sort of like just because you study ballet doesn't mean you'll have the body of a ballerina. You have to be born with that basic shape.
I actually agree with this. I have broad shoulders, mainly from genetics and also from competitive swimming when I was young. I have made it a point to not lift heavy WRT any sort of exercises which gives my body more of a V-shape.
And yeah, there's NO way I can have the body of the girl in the second picture, sigh... unless I do surgery.0 -
Drugs.Both women in the pics lift weights. Vastly different outcomes.
Why?
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Not always drugs, can get biggish with the correct diet as well:
http://www.fitnessatlantic.com/female-bodybuilders.htm0
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