A heavy weight lifter in street clothes...

Rae6503
Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I can bench press 105lbs, squat 130lbs and deadlift 175lbs. Do I look "masculine" and "bulky" to you?

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  • odownz
    odownz Posts: 98
    You look fantastic!! Gorgeous, beautiful, hot and sexy!!! ...definitely not MANLY!! Great job!! ;-)
  • UponThisRock
    UponThisRock Posts: 4,519 Member
    No, but I feel comparatively weak :(
  • LinzCurlyQ
    LinzCurlyQ Posts: 94 Member
    You look awesome! And great motivation for me to get to heavier weight.
  • IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym Posts: 5,573 Member
    definitely not - you look gorgeous!
  • Muscles_Curves
    Muscles_Curves Posts: 385 Member
    I think you look great. I can't wait to see results like yours. Keep up the good work!!!
  • Altarian
    Altarian Posts: 230 Member
    bulky???? Masculine??? hardly, you are very feminine looking. If you hadn't listed what you can bench, squat and dead lift i would think you were full of it. I am jealous of your ability. And don't listen to anyone who tells you that you are starting to look manly.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    bulky???? Masculine??? hardly, you are very feminine looking. If you hadn't listed what you can bench, squat and dead lift i would think you were full of it. I am jealous of your ability. And don't listen to anyone who tells you that you are starting to look manly.

    WORD! You're beautiful!
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    :heart: LOVE! :heart:
  • wisebadger53
    wisebadger53 Posts: 382 Member
    Do I look "masculine" and "bulky" to you?

    I would say definitely not!
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    No you look nice.
  • Kerri_is_so_very
    Kerri_is_so_very Posts: 999 Member
    You look fantastic!
  • JennieAL
    JennieAL Posts: 1,726 Member
    Beautiful :)
  • ChristiH4000
    ChristiH4000 Posts: 531 Member
    You're beautiful and your femininity absolutely blasts the myth I've seen repeated on this site too many times. :flowerforyou:
  • VeganInTraining
    VeganInTraining Posts: 1,319 Member
    wow! You look awesome and i am impressed with you strength! now i wanna know what you look like in a swim suit!
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    :love:
    You're beautiful. Train like a man. Look like a woman! Really...does it get any better?
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    You have that James bond girl kind of look. One of the villainesses. The, I'm going to crush your skull with my legs, then go powder my nose.
  • emmamcblain
    emmamcblain Posts: 342
    LOVE this! :heart:
  • NovemberJune
    NovemberJune Posts: 2,525 Member
    I think you look great and I think most people don't have that negative of a stereotype towards women who lift but the minority who do think that women who lift look hulking or something are just a vocal minority??? *shrugs* :laugh:
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    Thank you everyone. I didn't post this just to be an attention *kitten* (okay, maybe a little). It's part of my endless marketing campaign to get more women into weight lifting.:love:
  • BeachGurl815
    BeachGurl815 Posts: 295 Member
    :love:
    You're beautiful. Train like a man. Look like a woman! Really...does it get any better?

    This! You are very inspiring.
  • ashreynolds09
    ashreynolds09 Posts: 257 Member
    not at all! you look great!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    No.

    But I have seen other women who do. It's all about body composition and how much testosterone you have. Some women do bulk up in a way I would not want to. It's tough to know what your personal result will be until you do it and it's scary for some women.
  • Francesca3162
    Francesca3162 Posts: 520 Member
    If that is bulky and masculine, then I want IN!!!
    you look great!!!
  • helenrachel123
    helenrachel123 Posts: 22 Member
    You look fantastic and very slim and very nicely toned not bulky or muscley in any way keep up the great work, good motivation for those of us who have just started lifting weights, I have just started body pump recently and am really enjoying it, think people think that weight lifting will turn us females into the incredible hulk which is just not true. My mum is horrified that I have started weight lifting and thinks that I am going to get bulky and manly looking
  • VeganInTraining
    VeganInTraining Posts: 1,319 Member
    Thank you everyone. I didn't post this just to be an attention *kitten* (okay, maybe a little). It's part of my endless marketing campaign to get more women into weight lifting.:love:

    it's working! Really makes me want to start lifting more!
  • swthrtsmrf
    swthrtsmrf Posts: 384
    You look great. I would have never thought you could bench that!
  • sandiki
    sandiki Posts: 454
    I think you look amazing!..

    I lift heavy and also had ppl telling me, in pm's, that I looked "bulky." Not in this pic but when I have my gunz shot up..
    ehh..:yawn: is all I have to say to them.

    Keep up the great work!
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    No.

    But I have seen other women who do. It's all about body composition and how much testosterone you have. Some women do bulk up in a way I would not want to. It's tough to know what your personal result will be until you do it and it's scary for some women.

    Except I do gain muscle easier than a lot of women. When I lifted in college I annoyed my lifting partner because she was stronger but my biceps were bigger and more defined. I went on a "bulk" over the winter. I ate 3000 calories for 4 months in an effort to gain muscle. "They" say that women who do everything right to gain muscle should only be able to gain a pound of muscle a month. I'm pretty sure I gained more than that (I gained 10lbs total, and am pretty sure 6 of that was NOT fat). My flexed biceps are 12.5in big, my quads are 20", my hips and *kitten* 40".

    The difference is not building muscle easily, the difference between "bulky" and "lean" is body fat percentage.
  • sel254
    sel254 Posts: 273 Member
    No, but I feel comparatively weak :(

    ^ THIS!!! :)
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    No.

    But I have seen other women who do. It's all about body composition and how much testosterone you have. Some women do bulk up in a way I would not want to. It's tough to know what your personal result will be until you do it and it's scary for some women.

    Except I do gain muscle easier than a lot of women. When I lifted in college I annoyed my lifting partner because she was stronger but my biceps were bigger and more defined. I went on a "bulk" over the winter. I ate 3000 calories for 4 months in an effort to gain muscle. "They" say that women who do everything right to gain muscle should only be able to gain a pound of muscle a month. I'm pretty sure I gained more than that (I gained 10lbs total, and am pretty sure 6 of that was NOT fat). My flexed biceps are 12.5in big, my quads are 20", my hips and *kitten* 40".

    The difference is not building muscle easily, the difference between "bulky" and "lean" is body fat percentage.

    Are you saying the bulkier women have more fat or less? I'm talking about women who have very little body fat and a LOT of muscle definition. Not everyone has those results, but some do and I think that's what a lot of women are afraid of having happen.

    Personally, it's not the look I want. I like your results and is what I'm hoping for.

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