Do you lift heavy? Are you bulky?

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  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    I just started lifting this week so I don't have progress yet to share. I just want to say I love all you ladies who have shared your progress, and I'm amazed at what you are lifting.
  • juicemoogan
    juicemoogan Posts: 994 Member
    LUCIA>.. did you say 405?

    wow~~!
  • darwinforyou
    darwinforyou Posts: 988 Member
    I am doing progress pictures - only to show that I was MORE bulky before, since I am not tiny now. Between my May 2012 picture and current, it's less than a 20 lb difference. Between December and now there's about a 5 inch difference in my waist -

    I do stronglifts -

    OHP - 55
    DL - 140
    BP - 75
    Rows - 70
    Squat - 115

    Not as much as some ladies - but lifting has made a huge difference to my body. In the last month I've gained 6 lbs lbm from 109 to 116 in lbm. So yeah - I'm bulky - but I'm way less bulky than I was!

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  • juicemoogan
    juicemoogan Posts: 994 Member
    P.s...
    Yes i lift... Because I'm bulky (but not from lifting) and I'm trying to lose body fat and trim down..

    So pretty much the opposite of what most people imagine.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Whoa! I missed Bean's edit! That some incredible lean mass, too!

    And, about thekyleo....I'm curious what his first negativity was that he edited.


    Thanks. Up until recently (like, a couple days ago) I was really embarrassed about it and NEVER posted my actual weight, but after I did, I had an influx of comments from ladies on my FL that made me feel more confident, and said that seeing the numbers helped them with their own insecurities and mental picture of what weight really looks like. So, I guess I'm embracing it now. I now choose to think of myself as a brick-house. LOL.
  • wareagle8706
    wareagle8706 Posts: 1,090 Member
    <---- I pick up heavy things and put them down. Bulky? Nope. Hot? Yes. :happy:

    Oh right.....

    5'1'' 120 lbs

    I haven't done a 1RM. I was supposed to last week then got sick so here's what I have for you:
    Squat 105 for 8 reps 2 sets
    Bench 70 lbs 8 reps
    Deadlift 65 lbs for 10 reps for 3 sets
  • PaveGurl
    PaveGurl Posts: 244 Member
    I lift, though I wouldn't say I lift "heavy" - I do weekly progression, starting new weight at 7 reps and working up to 15 for 3 sets, and an alternating up/ low split (currently squatting about 275, if my math is right, after several months of a routine through which I lost a lot of strength, I'm just getting back to my weights. My deadlifts and bent rows and stuff are depressing now. :( BOO)

    I do a little cardio (not a focus).

    I'm 5'8", and around 140.

    And that's me in my profile pic. I don't think I'm bulky. In fact, I lost a bunch of pants sizes when I started lifting.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I lift, though I wouldn't say I lift "heavy" - I do weekly progression, starting new weight at 7 reps and working up to 15 for 3 sets, and an alternating up/ low split (currently squatting about 275, if my math is right, after several months of a routine through which I lost a lot of strength, I'm just getting back to my weights. My deadlifts and bent rows and stuff are depressing now. :( BOO)

    I do a little cardio (not a focus).

    I'm 5'8", and around 140.

    And that's me in my profile pic. I don't think I'm bulky. In fact, I lost a bunch of pants sizes when I started lifting.

    holy hammer, you're squatting 275 and you wouldn't say your lifting "heavy?"
  • opalescence
    opalescence Posts: 413 Member
    Wow, Maria! What a difference a year makes! Lucia and Jonesie, you both look fantastic!

    Alla, in addition to being "bulky", I see you have lost your curves! :laugh: You look awesome!

    I know, right? A girl just can't win.

    By the way, I frocking hate the new photobucket, makes me want to stab things.

    all you ladies look fantastic! you are my idols. I hate that my OHP is still only at 35#s I feel like such a weakling. It will get there, I gotta have some patience.

    I had to change back to the original photobucket, I couldnt deal.
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    I lift, though I wouldn't say I lift "heavy" - I do weekly progression, starting new weight at 7 reps and working up to 15 for 3 sets, and an alternating up/ low split (currently squatting about 275, if my math is right, after several months of a routine through which I lost a lot of strength, I'm just getting back to my weights. My deadlifts and bent rows and stuff are depressing now. :( BOO)

    I do a little cardio (not a focus).

    I'm 5'8", and around 140.

    And that's me in my profile pic. I don't think I'm bulky. In fact, I lost a bunch of pants sizes when I started lifting.

    holy hammer, you're squatting 275 and you wouldn't say your lifting "heavy?"
    ^^I was just going to say the same thing. 275 is CRAZY heavy! I mean, not world record setting, but you could win some competitions for SURE!

    ETA: Women's Raw Squat world records:
    Class Lift Name Year Fed Country
    97 214 Naomi Kutin 01/22/12 RUPC USA
    105 319 Wei-Ling Chen 06/12/12 IPF TPE
    114 319 Suzie Hartwig-Gary 08/19/11 USAPL USA
    123 308 Suzie Hartwig-Gary 03/04/11 IPF USA
    132 330 Anastasiya Amelina 04/08/11 WPC Russia
    148 450 Rheta West 10/06/12 IPA USA
    165 440 Taylar Stallings 11/12/11 PRPA USA
    181 473 Jill Brown- Mills 1998 APF USA
    198 451 Ielja Strik 06/15/12 IPF Netherlands
    198+ 615 April Mathis 10/29/11 APF USA
  • Controversial
    Controversial Posts: 157 Member
    <~ OMG, I'm sooooooo bulky! :(

    HALP!
  • chosengiver
    chosengiver Posts: 1,462 Member
    Totally bulky here too and OVERWEIGHT!

    Height: 5'3.5"
    Weight: 150lbs
    Squat: 75
    Lunges: 30
    OHP: 30
    Curls: 20 each arm
    Seated Row: 80
    Bench: 65
    Plus, I do many other lifts.

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  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
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  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    Whoa! I missed Bean's edit! That some incredible lean mass, too!

    And, about thekyleo....I'm curious what his first negativity was that he edited.


    Thanks. Up until recently (like, a couple days ago) I was really embarrassed about it and NEVER posted my actual weight, but after I did, I had an influx of comments from ladies on my FL that made me feel more confident, and said that seeing the numbers helped them with their own insecurities and mental picture of what weight really looks like. So, I guess I'm embracing it now. I now choose to think of myself as a brick-house. LOL.

    Bean, you are clearly very, very, dense. To look look that small at that weight is a real accomplishment. :flowerforyou:
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
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    I get what you're sayiing, but they also have different diets and training protocol for the different sports....
  • sarahstrezo
    sarahstrezo Posts: 568 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
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    And not a single one of them is what I would consider "bulky". In my experience....people who look "bulky" intend to look that way. They work very hard to look that way and lift and eat specifically to look that way.
  • lacurandera1
    lacurandera1 Posts: 8,083 Member
    What Sarah and Bean said. Looking "bulky" takes a lot of work. And steroids, if you don't have natural testosterone in abundance.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
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    I get what you're sayiing, but they also have different diets and training protocol for the different sports....

    I don't get what you're saying. What particular difference? Are you seeing some of them as bulky and some not (as I assume you are responding to the title of the thread)?
  • sundaywishes
    sundaywishes Posts: 246 Member
    Sooooooooo in love with this thread!!!


    ETA: Can I just keep bumping this over and over? :bigsmile:


    .....like for the rest of MFP's existence?
  • JossFit
    JossFit Posts: 588 Member
    I lift Heavy... not bulky. :happy:
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
    athletes-sm_zpsf0adcc36.jpg

    I get what you're sayiing, but they also have different diets and training protocol for the different sports....

    I don't get what you're saying. What particular difference? Are you seeing some of them as bulky and some not (as I assume you are responding to the title of the thread)?
    Some are thinner, some have more development in the thighs, etc. My point was that you can work out like a world class athlete, and what you get is largely dependent on your DNA. In other words, lifting heavy won't make you bulky unless you are one of the few who has DNA that predisposes you to be that way.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
    athletes-sm_zpsf0adcc36.jpg

    I get what you're sayiing, but they also have different diets and training protocol for the different sports....

    I don't get what you're saying. What particular difference? Are you seeing some of them as bulky and some not (as I assume you are responding to the title of the thread)?
    Some are thinner, some have more development in the thighs, etc. My point was that you can work out like a world class athlete, and what you get is largely dependent on your DNA. In other words, lifting heavy won't make you bulky unless you are one of the few who has DNA that predisposes you to be that way.

    Some have more development in the thighs because of the demands of their different sports.
  • SexyLovinmeCook
    SexyLovinmeCook Posts: 1,393 Member
    Back for more....This thread is so informative to...No one knows it all but can gather what may work for them....:happy:
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Let's drop the athletes pic discussion- I don't think it's really relevant to compare the bodies of olympic athletes in various sports to regular women who lift heavy. So......can someone please post the next set of MFP member pics!?!

    Let's keep this party going!
  • SexyLovinmeCook
    SexyLovinmeCook Posts: 1,393 Member
    Totally bulky here too and OVERWEIGHT!

    Height: 5'3.5"
    Weight: 150lbs
    Squat: 75
    Lunges: 30
    OHP: 30
    Curls: 20 each arm
    Seated Row: 80
    Bench: 65
    Plus, I do many other lifts.

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    You butt looks AMAZING....Squats have done great for you!
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Let's drop the athletes pic discussion- I don't think it's really relevant to compare the bodies of olympic athletes in various sports to regular women who lift heavy. So......can someone please post the next set of MFP member pics!?!

    Let's keep this party going!

    I am still trying to find some recent ones of me with my clothes on :wink:
  • chosengiver
    chosengiver Posts: 1,462 Member
    Is 275lbs to squat even realistic for me??
    uhm......prob NOT!
  • keesh1123
    keesh1123 Posts: 229 Member
    <--- I.LIFT.HEAVY....I'M.NOT.BULKY.
  • tameko2
    tameko2 Posts: 31,634 Member
    I don't have a lot of pictures, but Bean and Lora just made me feel a LOT better about my weight, because I'm 5'6" and 165ish (168 according to my last weigh in) and I feel like a freak most of the time because I wear a size 8. (I even have a few things in a size 6)

    I can't post pictures because I'm at work but <3<3<3 ladies.
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    Six world class athletes who lift heavy. The difference is genetics.
    athletes-sm_zpsf0adcc36.jpg

    I get what you're sayiing, but they also have different diets and training protocol for the different sports....

    I don't get what you're saying. What particular difference? Are you seeing some of them as bulky and some not (as I assume you are responding to the title of the thread)?
    Some are thinner, some have more development in the thighs, etc. My point was that you can work out like a world class athlete, and what you get is largely dependent on your DNA. In other words, lifting heavy won't make you bulky unless you are one of the few who has DNA that predisposes you to be that way.

    Some have more development in the thighs because of the demands of their different sports.
    Actually, it's exactly the opposite. At this level the athletes are in their different sports "because" their muscular development allows them to excel in those sports, not the other way around. Amy Acuff (the tall blond) could jump on the trampoline for the rest of her life and never develop the thighs of Jennifer Parilla (to her left).

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