WeightLifting/StrengthTraining and Women!

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  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Okay let's be straight here. You build muscles with a bunch of fat on top of it or put more fat on top of it, yeah you'll get thick.

    Toned means you want muscle definition. Muscle definition means lower bodyfat levels. When most women mean they don't want to get bulky they really mean they don't want extreme muscle definition


    Muscle make you appear bigger and more "bulbous". Most female bodybuilders, even the "large" ones are actually very tiny. I wear a size 2 clothing right now myself. When I go into my off season I'll probably get to a size 6.

    Good news is, it takes a long time and actual purposeful effort for women to gain muscle mass. Meaning your training protocol and nutritional plan is set specifically for that purpose. And even the ones on drugs have had to spends years working to get where they are at. Many confuse muscles filling with fluid and swelling after usage that they aren't used to with getting "bulky"

    So unless you are trying to get bulky(extreme muscle definition, hypertrophy program), you won't.

    ^^good explanation here.

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