weight lifting for women-question about arms

mmapags

Sorry mmapags, Not to rain on your parade, but you are wrong. I've talked to many personal trainers about this and my brother in law has been a body builder for 15 years. I do this all the time and my arms are not huge but very toned. Your arms cannot get as big if your going lighter than heavier.

Not sure what trainers your talking to but either they don't know thier stuff or you are not hearing them correctly. See links below;
http://www.livestrong.com/article/436092-mass-vs-strength/
http://www.muscleprodigy.com/strength-reps-vs.-mass-reps-arcl-892.html

Pasted from the 2nd link:
"If you want to get bigger, what sort of routine must you use? How do you "tone" your muscles? In many cases, I do believe that there is much to be learned in the arena of exercising and how many reps or sets to do and how to build strength as opposed to big muscles. It used to be that everyone believed that you do fewer reps to make your muscles bigger and a great number of reps to tone your muscles. Oddly enough, this is exactly opposite from the reality. It is important to distinguish between muscle tone and muscle mass in order to understand how reps work for each. Rusty Moore gives a balloon analogy in his course Visual Impact. Like filling up a water balloon, getting that bodybuilder physique is not difficult at all to do. Getting dense, toned muscles would be like making the balloon rubber thicker which ultimately makes it denser and stronger. Doing a smaller number of reps with heavier weights is the optimal way to gain strength. The most vital part of the whole affair is that you cannot wear yourself out too much. Muscles must not feel extremely tired when your session is done. Always keep one rep in the tank. Making your muscles more compact and not flabby looking is what you get with this kind of work out. You only need somewhere between three to five repetitions to build up your strength. If you do between five and ten sets then you won't hit muscle failure.

If you want to get your muscles to be bigger, you have to do high rep training to failure. By exhausting your muscles, you force them to grow larger. At the same time, if you get bigger muscles, you will look slightly softer and not as streamlined. Muscle mass training should be done with about 12-15 reps. Keep in mind that you have to absolutely wear out your muscles in this exercise. So, not as many sets are needed even if you could do them."

LorinaLynn

Jamie's arms look more muscular that you'd like in THAT photo, but that's not how she looks all the time. That's, as others have said, when she's at really low body fat at a convention.

Here she is with slightly higher body fat:



Here's my results from heavy strength training. My arms just got smaller and tighter.

TrophyWifeSass

Your arms are big because there is fat on them.. you lose the fat, and they will get smaller. Her arms look like that because she has really low body fat in that picture.

If you don't want arms like that, then don't let your body fat get that low.. that simple.

^truth

Yanicka1

Sorry mmapags, Not to rain on your parade, but you are wrong. I've talked to many personal trainers about this and my brother in law has been a body builder for 15 years. I do this all the time and my arms are not huge but very toned. Your arms cannot get as big if your going lighter than heavier.

Oh if your bodybuilder brother in law told you that, I imagine everyone else is wrong :sick:

I lift heavy and my arms are tone but not bulky. I don't look like my avatar when I do not flex

dmpizza

I think you are putting the cart before the horse.
Start the program and see how it goes.