How can I tone and lift heavy without bulking up ?

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  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    ...or have to wear special shirts jut to fit my arms.

    I used to have a hard time finding shirts that fit my arms. I cursed clothing designers because shirts that fit my chest and waist were too small in the sleeves. I even got STUCK inside a shirt in the dressing room and was in tears trying to get it off. I wore a lot of sleeveless shirts so I didn't have to worry about it.

    But that wasn't because my arms were muscular. They were just chubby.

    NOW... I WANT to wear sleeveless shirts because my arms look kind of awesome.
  • LesleeBeAlive
    LesleeBeAlive Posts: 504
    ^^And avoid the spam above me from california girl.

    She's more interested in promoting the company that pays her.

    She also has the backing of the MFP staff


    Haha
    ..
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Focus on changing your lifestyle in such a way that you have the knowledge and habits to eat well and exercise well for the rest of your life. Being afraid of bulking up is not even remotely an issue you have to worry about. That's like being afraid of accepting a job because you fear you will become a millionaire.

    Got to agree with this. Educate yourself. You'll hear alot of stuff on these forums. Some good advice, some bad advice. But ALWAYS follow it up with your own research.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Why don't you just put her on ignore if it bothers you that much? That's what I do when people annoy me.

    It's not so much an annoyance factor is not wanting people duped into believing they need to do a complex and expensive program to get results.

    And it would be a lot more believable that she wasn't paid by the company if her picture wasn't on the product and her blog wasn't just a collection of links to the product.
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    Yikes, I guess this horse we're beating isn't dead yet?
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 Member
    ^^And avoid the spam above me from california girl.

    She's more interested in promoting the company that pays her.

    So I've never really looked at her links before, but now going through them, I don't see any blatant promotion of a company. Just lots of pics of her. Seems more vanity than anything. Am I missing something. Note that I have short attention span so I didn't actually ready much, just skimmed.

    it's in her profile. This is a trick that gets used often. They promote "themselves" and lure people to see their profile where they put links to the program that they owe all their success to.

    Without looking at her page...what's wrong with that? I promote MFP because it's where my success came from.

    Also, to OP...Lift heavy and hard. You won't get big from it. But you also must focus on losing fat- when I was overweight, i started to put on weight from lifting heavy and got frustrated and quit. Then I ate a 1200 cal diet for two years, got thin, then started lifting heavy..again, the scale went up, but the measurements went down. So i truly believe lifting heavy is key to success. The only way you'd be "big" muscularly is if you have a genetic preidsposition to it- like high testosterone levels (rare, but happens) or just genes for big calves (like that other girl said)....but you will be the most amazing YOU ever! And that's what god gave ya, so rock that shizz!
  • Ge0rgiana
    Ge0rgiana Posts: 1,649 Member
    Don't eat thousands of extra calories?
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    Yikes, I guess this horse we're beating isn't dead yet?

    Beating-a-dead-horse.gif
  • MissTattoo
    MissTattoo Posts: 1,203 Member
    eat at a deficit. You won't gain muscle if you aren't eating at a surplus.
  • cbrrabbit25
    cbrrabbit25 Posts: 384 Member
    i lift really heavy and my leg muscles are not huge. it actually allowed me to burn more fat lifting heavier, so my skinny jeans fit me better even though my muscles got a little bigger. There was more fat down there than I originally thought :-)
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    Don't eat thousands of extra calories?
    thousands of negative calories, that is.
  • Muscles_Curves
    Muscles_Curves Posts: 385 Member
    I just focus on the things I can control like my diet. I just let my body do what it is going to do.
  • PittShkr
    PittShkr Posts: 1,000 Member
    you aren't going to put on that amount of muscle from lifting heavy.

    it takes a ton of work to gain amounts of muscle like that, and if you're eating in a deficit to lose weight, it won't be a problem.

    EXACTLY. It worked for me. I'm not big. lose fat so muscles show, lift heavy, light, changing it up, lift weight a lot, for years, and the muscle develops but does not get big if you are natural.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/740340-i-lost-60-lbs-at-age-51-anyone-can-any-workout

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/752246-i-m-afraid-to-try-an-new-weight-lifting-program-now

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/745151-i-got-a-compliment-from-rusty-moore-from-fitness-black-book

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/742284-lets-see-some-muscle-chicks-real-ones

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/746754-how-to-get-abs-with-pics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/734011-desserts-always-make-me-wake-up-ripped-with-pics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/734137-the-new-me-pictures-not-posing

    SERIOUSLY! tumblr_m3771my2Z31r4kk7r.gif
  • Ge0rgiana
    Ge0rgiana Posts: 1,649 Member
    Don't eat thousands of extra calories?
    thousands of negative calories, that is.

    Touche.
  • secretlobster
    secretlobster Posts: 3,566 Member
    i lift really heavy and my leg muscles are not huge. it actually allowed me to burn more fat lifting heavier, so my skinny jeans fit me better even though my muscles got a little bigger. There was more fat down there than I originally thought :-)

    d-d-damn I love your tats
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    I'm pretty sure the only people who can't wear boots zipped up and need special shirts are the ones who are out of shape and overweight.


    Pretty sure you're wrong. I know a lot of women who are fit, healthy, and well within their BMI range that have difficulty finding boots that fit their calves because of their genetics.
  • HypersonicFitNess
    HypersonicFitNess Posts: 1,219 Member
    Unless your planning to do steroids, heavy weight training for hours daily you aren't going to bulk up. First of all women aren't pre-disposed to BULK. This requires serious dedication (and roids)

    Weight training will just streamline your body, make it more compact and trim. I've been weight training for ....well lets see I've been married 23 years, so at least 23 years (my husband is big into weight lifting). I'm a size 2...I don't buy any special clothes to fit me, except that they are a real size 2 (not a department store size..they're too big). You can tell I haven't bulked up a bit and that is from normally weight training 45-1 hour 3x per week and some years I was doing more than that and doing pyramid training (starting light with lots of reps, then going heavier with fewer reps, then back down again). I've worked out with CATHE and she can kick some hiney on weight training; she's an animal. I'm pretty strong for a 5'2" gal. Yes, I can do a pull up - 5 in fact.

    I do have a problem with knee high boots t hat zip; I do have large calves...but then as someone else mentioned; this is a hereditary thing, even before I ever lifted a weight I couldn't wear the zip up boots to my knees....well I never found any I liked that would actually zip. :laugh: My calves have trimmed down some...we'll see I'm more interested in cowgirl boots :bigsmile:
  • katiekrusher
    katiekrusher Posts: 143
    Women don't have enough testosterone to grow muscle as guys do.
  • mamasmaltz3
    mamasmaltz3 Posts: 1,111 Member
    i lift really heavy and my leg muscles are not huge. it actually allowed me to burn more fat lifting heavier, so my skinny jeans fit me better even though my muscles got a little bigger. There was more fat down there than I originally thought :-)






    AMAZING! Keep on rockin those weights, they look good on you. I need your picture on my mirror for inspiration, lol.
  • onedayillbeamilf
    onedayillbeamilf Posts: 966 Member
    you aren't going to put on that amount of muscle from lifting heavy.

    it takes a ton of work to gain amounts of muscle like that, and if you're eating in a deficit to lose weight, it won't be a problem.

    EXACTLY. It worked for me. I'm not big. lose fat so muscles show, lift heavy, light, changing it up, lift weight a lot, for years, and the muscle develops but does not get big if you are natural.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/740340-i-lost-60-lbs-at-age-51-anyone-can-any-workout

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/752246-i-m-afraid-to-try-an-new-weight-lifting-program-now

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/745151-i-got-a-compliment-from-rusty-moore-from-fitness-black-book

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/742284-lets-see-some-muscle-chicks-real-ones

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/746754-how-to-get-abs-with-pics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/734011-desserts-always-make-me-wake-up-ripped-with-pics

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/734137-the-new-me-pictures-not-posing

    D'oh.
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    Don't belive the LIES in this thread, anyone who tells you to lift heavy is just trying to trick you. Really anything other than PINK colored weights will bulk you like the hulk.
  • beanerific518
    beanerific518 Posts: 152
    I'm pretty sure the only people who can't wear boots zipped up and need special shirts are the ones who are out of shape and overweight.


    Pretty sure you're wrong. I know a lot of women who are fit, healthy, and well within their BMI range that have difficulty finding boots that fit their calves because of their genetics.

    this is me. normal BMI, ideal body fat percentage for my gender and age group, but big muscular calves. But then again if I had little calves, my beastly quads would look stupid. I don't take any steroids or anything like that. It is genetics - my aunt has the same body frame as I do. The way I look at it is others can work years and years to get legs like mine :-P I just look for tall boots with "wide calf" and they zip up just fine.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    You can 'tone' and lift heavy without bulking up by losing body fat.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Just don't bother exercising. Clearly it's dangerous.
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    Heres what i learned: Lifting heavy doesn't make you bulky. Being fat makes you bulky.

    Lift heavy and diet til you're not fat then see what you think of the results. But when you're at 30% or more fat, getting ripped is not the thing to worry about.
  • cbrrabbit25
    cbrrabbit25 Posts: 384 Member
    i lift really heavy and my leg muscles are not huge. it actually allowed me to burn more fat lifting heavier, so my skinny jeans fit me better even though my muscles got a little bigger. There was more fat down there than I originally thought :-)

    d-d-damn I love your tats

    thanks! i want more on the left side though. it looks uneven :-)
  • cbrrabbit25
    cbrrabbit25 Posts: 384 Member
    i lift really heavy and my leg muscles are not huge. it actually allowed me to burn more fat lifting heavier, so my skinny jeans fit me better even though my muscles got a little bigger. There was more fat down there than I originally thought :-)






    AMAZING! Keep on rockin those weights, they look good on you. I need your picture on my mirror for inspiration, lol.

    thank you!
  • runner2runner
    runner2runner Posts: 1,937 Member
    That's right. Lifting heavy won't necessarily bulk you up. In fact your diet has a bigger effect on how your body develops when you train. So if you eat a lot of protein and lift heavy, then you probably will bulk up. The key is to eat for weight loss even if you lift heavy. That should get you toned without bulking you up.
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    You're a woman. You won't bulk unless you jug protein shakes and take steroids.

    Edit: I lift heavy. I'm also size 2 and nowhere near bulky.

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