Do you lift heavy? Are you bulky?

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  • Posts: 2,733 Member
    Bumping for later...love this!
  • Posts: 1,428 Member
    Yeah, just took this...feeling super bulky today. :laugh:

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  • Posts: 28,072 Member
    Yeah, just took this...feeling super bulky today. :laugh:

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    Hawt!!!
  • Posts: 28,072 Member
    I don't have any recent pics in street clothes, but here is before heavy lifting and last month's progress picture. I am due to take new pics this weekend, but wanted to go ahead and throw this in the thread. I do compound barbell lifts as heavy as I can, three times a week, walk on the treadmill for "cardio" a couple times a week. I am 5'6.5, I am so "bulky" that my co-workers think I weight about 15lbs less than I actually do.
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    All you ladies are super inspiring! A thread like this is what got me into lifting weights last year!

    <---jelly!
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    I am loving this thread, so inspiring!!!
  • Posts: 62 Member
    Bump!
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    Amazing!
  • Posts: 2,536 Member
    Heavy lifter here!

    DL: 215
    Bench: 105
    Squat: 185
    BW: 136



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  • Posts: 2,536 Member
    Lifting heavy...before i started....
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    during and currently....i am now 5'11" and these pics after between 175 and 185 pounds
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    YOU RULE
  • Posts: 1,428 Member
    Someday I hope to be bulky like you!

    Me too!!!
  • Posts: 1,428 Member
    I don't have any recent pics in street clothes, but here is before heavy lifting and last month's progress picture. I am due to take new pics this weekend, but wanted to go ahead and throw this in the thread. I do compound barbell lifts as heavy as I can, three times a week, walk on the treadmill for "cardio" a couple times a week. I am 5'6.5, I am so "bulky" that my co-workers think I weight about 15lbs less than I actually do.
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    All you ladies are super inspiring! A thread like this is what got me into lifting weights last year!

    Beautiful!!! You're so inspiring!
  • Posts: 28,072 Member
    Heavy lifter here!

    DL: 215
    Bench: 105
    Squat: 185
    BW: 136



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    Bad@*kitten*, hot, but not bulky!
  • Posts: 199 Member
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    HA!! LOVE IT!!
  • Posts: 5,564 Member
    Props to the girls of IPOARM!
    Nice work!
  • Posts: 28,072 Member
    Props to the girls of IPOARM!
    Nice work!

    Which ones are they?
  • Posts: 3,028 Member
    *raises hand*
    I've upped my lifting day cals to 2100 after "talking" to Dan and I killed 130 lb deadlifts yesterday...only 5 lbs from body weight and it felt...dare I say...easy.
  • Posts: 25,022 Member
    *raises hand*
    I've upped my lifting day cals to 2100 after "talking" to Dan and I killed 130 lb deadlifts yesterday...only 5 lbs from body weight and it felt...dare I say...easy.

    Boom! I love it! Congrats!

    I just hit 135 lb deadlifts, although that is further from body weight for me. But I'm getting closer! If it wasn't for this stupid flu that hit me this week I'd be closer to it. *sighs*
  • I only lift heavy anymore. I used to be big on doing reps for ten, but started Crossfit and was shown the light. I'm still a heavy guy (~230) but I look much leaner than I used to.

    Bench: 390
    Deadlift: 405
    Squat: 315
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    Bench: 390


    ^ yikes, very nice!
  • Posts: 575 Member

    ^^THIS! I don't "lift heavy" persay but I lift and am working on the getting to heavy part. BUT I can say that the last time my *kitten* was in a size 8 I was shorter and lighter than I am currently. Shorter by about an inch and lighter by about 20lbs. The other thing is there was not one spot of my clothing that was LOOSE then either... I will NEVER regret deciding to start lifting weights.
    If you're working on lifting heavier, you lift heavy. Heavy isn't about a number, it's about lifting to the maximum of YOUR strength, even if that's tiny compared to anybody else here :)
  • @sidesteel: I've been deployed for a while and there isn't much esle to do here but lift. Before it's time to go home I will be at 405. I gotta see 4 plates on each side before I leave.
  • Posts: 13,247 Member
    Speaking of looking/feeling like you weigh less...

    I bought these (truly hideous, I know) jeans in 19-frickin-86 when I was about 14 years old and no more than 110 pounds.

    I had a soft spot for them and couldn't throw them out (*cough*hoarder*cough*). I remember posting about them on FB some time in 2010 saying I should ditch them because they only way they'll ever fit again, the only way I'd be 110 pounds again, would be if I became horribly ill.

    I was half right. I would need to be horribly ill to be 110 pounds again. I currently have a lean mass of about 110 pounds. Now I'm 40 years old and around 135 pounds, and those ugly frickin' jeans fit.

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    They don't fit comfortably, mind you, but they fit.
  • Posts: 8,083 Member
    Wow Lorena....those are terrible. Lol
  • Posts: 73 Member
    I'm a big fan of heavy lift and low rep!!! Even on a strict diet!
  • Bench 175-Squat 305-Dead Lift 350
    This was before I had my baby (which is why I am here) but this was my stats in these pictures.

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    Bench 175-Squat 305-Dead Lift 350
    This was before I had my baby (which is why I am here) but this was my stats in these pictures.

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    HOLY ISH GIRL! IMPRESSIVE STATS! WOWZA!

  • HOLY ISH GIRL! IMPRESSIVE STATS! WOWZA!

    Thank you! I was a state power lifter (: It was my life! I was in the weight room 8 times a week, took weekends off.
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    Love this thread! I just started lifting (reluctantly) soooo inspired and motivated now. Thanks to all you lovely ladies!
  • Posts: 11,118 Member

    Thank you! I was a state power lifter (: It was my life!

    So cool! :heart:
  • Posts: 1,462 Member
    Current IPOARM enthusiast!!

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