HALP! Heavy Lifting Made Me SUPAH Bulky!!!

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  • GlassslippersAndFairyDust
    GlassslippersAndFairyDust Posts: 518 Member
    While I was a cardio junkie:
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    After I started lifting:
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    WOW!!! AMAZING!! :bigsmile:
  • GlassslippersAndFairyDust
    GlassslippersAndFairyDust Posts: 518 Member
    LOVE that more and more women are starting to realize the benefits to lifting heavy and move past the myth!! I absolutely love being strong!!

    Here are my pics (lifting pic was taken about 3 months ago so I've gotten a little bit more definition since then but you get the idea). Still not at goal but getting there :wink:

    Before 323lbs
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    Current 183lbs
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    You've given me hope! THANK YOU!!:flowerforyou:
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Threads like these are what convinced me to try stronglifts. I did weight machines in college and never saw any visible improvements from them. I'm less then a month into stronglifts and I can already see changes for the better.

    This thread has also reminded me that I still haven't taken any "before" pics. Need to suck it up and get that done.

    My biggest regret is not having a good before pic. I have a sort of "before" pic but I had lost some weight at that point already (its in my photos) And I really avoided full body shots back then.

    I totally am with you on that. I basically avoided the camera and only recently found some pics of me bigger - and they are fully clothes vacation shots. My first pics I posted were when I had already lost about 20lbs.
  • GlassslippersAndFairyDust
    GlassslippersAndFairyDust Posts: 518 Member

    So funny you mention the 3s... my gym has a 'women's only' room. I went in looking for a squat rack but was met by 3 pound dumbbells instead. And they were pink (for real). Ya think I should do 20 or 30 reps with them? Or will that bulk me up too much? LOL.

    There would be so much mad going on if my gym had that. You want to give me pink weights? Fine. but they better be these:
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    Exactly!! :laugh: :laugh:
  • Mainebikerchick
    Mainebikerchick Posts: 1,573 Member
    Maybe I missed the point, but this thread was started so that:

    A) The myth that heavy lifting for women would make them bulky is busted
    2) Was trying to get more women to post some before and "during" pics of what lifting has done for them

    and

    III) Was NOT designed to be a progress thread or motivational "look at me and what I lost" thread, she already posted that one so it's kinda pointless to do a repeat.

    The pictures are there and if you don't like the pics, read the measurements, they tell the story as well. IF you don't like the way the OP did things, this is a public forum so you can start your own threads, I'm sure you'll get glowing reviews.

    :flowerforyou:
  • juliemouse83
    juliemouse83 Posts: 6,663 Member
    Jeebus, women! Y’all look amazing…I mean REALLY FREAKING AMAZING! You make me GLAD I pick up heavy things and put them down!!!

    I am only a couple months into Strong Lifts. The “during” picture in March was taken right before I screwed up a set of rows with bad form and hosed my back and the doc benched me for a month, so I got to start basically from scratch less than 2 weeks ago…but I’m glad to be back again, cuz I MISSED my weights:

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    The first shot was me just starting 30DS after coming off of a couch potato regimen, and the second was after having lifted about a month. I haven’t taken any recently, but will at the end of May.

    ETA: I’m getting into jeans I haven’t worn, literally, in years. I weigh more than I did when I wore them originally, but the body comp is changing.
  • JezziedotM
    JezziedotM Posts: 31 Member
    OP, you aren't bulky. I've looked that that picture and all I really see are long, lean, and toned muscles. You look like what the dancers in my head look like. You might have body dysmorphia if you think you're bulky. I recommend talking to a specialist.

    With love,
    Burt

    *whispers*
    > she was being sarcastic/ironic (whatever the right word is)....
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    OP, you aren't bulky. I've looked that that picture and all I really see are long, lean, and toned muscles. You look like what the dancers in my head look like. You might have body dysmorphia if you think you're bulky. I recommend talking to a specialist.

    With love,
    Burt

    *whispers*
    > she was being sarcastic/ironic (whatever the right word is)....
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    OP, you aren't bulky. I've looked that that picture and all I really see are long, lean, and toned muscles. You look like what the dancers in my head look like. You might have body dysmorphia if you think you're bulky. I recommend talking to a specialist.

    With love,
    Burt

    *whispers*
    > she was being sarcastic/ironic (whatever the right word is)....

    I read what she wrote!!
  • JezziedotM
    JezziedotM Posts: 31 Member
    OP, you aren't bulky. I've looked that that picture and all I really see are long, lean, and toned muscles. You look like what the dancers in my head look like. You might have body dysmorphia if you think you're bulky. I recommend talking to a specialist.

    With love,
    Burt

    *whispers*
    > she was being sarcastic/ironic (whatever the right word is)....

    I read what she wrote!!

    So you understand she was being sarcastic/ironic?
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    OP, you aren't bulky. I've looked that that picture and all I really see are long, lean, and toned muscles. You look like what the dancers in my head look like. You might have body dysmorphia if you think you're bulky. I recommend talking to a specialist.

    With love,
    Burt

    *whispers*
    > she was being sarcastic/ironic (whatever the right word is)....

    I read what she wrote!!

    So you understand she was being sarcastic/ironic?

    I don't even know what those words are talking about that you use when you write in the message board forums! Look at this guy, he also took the OP's statements literally!
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.
  • JezziedotM
    JezziedotM Posts: 31 Member
    OP, you aren't bulky. I've looked that that picture and all I really see are long, lean, and toned muscles. You look like what the dancers in my head look like. You might have body dysmorphia if you think you're bulky. I recommend talking to a specialist.

    With love,
    Burt

    *whispers*
    > she was being sarcastic/ironic (whatever the right word is)....

    I read what she wrote!!

    So you understand she was being sarcastic/ironic?

    I don't even know what those words are talking about that you use when you write in the message board forums! Look at this guy, he also took the OP's statements literally!
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    Indeed he did. I was just too lazy to repeat myself when my post was one or two before his. If he didn't read it then, he probably wouldn't read it now, so I gave up :indifferent:
  • Babeskeez
    Babeskeez Posts: 606 Member
    Lift ALL THE THINGS!!!!
  • rachel4304
    rachel4304 Posts: 115 Member
    bump
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

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  • JezziedotM
    JezziedotM Posts: 31 Member
    I don't understand! She clearly is concerned about how bulky heavy lifting made her, and my concerns are corroborated by others in this thread. You can throw fancy literature terms at me like "sarcasm" and "irony" but more aptly "satire," and I will insist on not understanding your meaning.

    With love,
    Burt

    Oh ha ha :happy:
  • ImtheOnethatsCool
    ImtheOnethatsCool Posts: 212 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    and here I was thinking that my opinion of you couldn't get any lower. You really are thick.
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    and here I was thinking that my opinion of you couldn't get any lower. You really are thick.

    makes me
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  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    Haha, you look awesome. Way to go!

    On a random side note, from your bottom pic OP, you look a lot like the actress Jamie Alexander (lucky girl). :smile:
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    Did you also check the change in her measurements? There's some serious change (decreases!) from lifting, adding support to the non-bulkiness. She's just gotten leaner and stronger. That's hot.
  • Shaynaelise
    Shaynaelise Posts: 6
    I cruise the message boards on here frequently, I rarely comment though but I wanted to write a little post to say I SUPER REALLY EXTREMELY appreciate this post. I knew lifting wouldn't make me bulky from research long ago however I have several friends I still can't convince of this maybe if I direct them here they will be believers? I haven't lifted in a seriously long time and have let myself get terribly out of shape to the point I am in pain. I plan on starting a heavy lifting program as soon as I get in with the doctor to ensure I don't have any reasons for my pain that could be exacerbated by working out (an injury that needs attention for example) and that my pain really is "just cause I got fat" I've been looking at Stronglifts and am already receiving the emails I'm just chomping at the bit waiting to be cleared to start this wonderful journey. Thank you to EVERYONE who posted photos seeing the wonderful success is incredibly motivating to me :happy:
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.
    futucutkut yutuo.
  • Cadori
    Cadori Posts: 4,810 Member
    Indeed he did. I was just too lazy to repeat myself when my post was one or two before his. If he didn't read it then, he probably wouldn't read it now, so I gave up :indifferent:

    I don't understand! She clearly is concerned about how bulky heavy lifting made her, and my concerns are corroborated by others in this thread. You can throw fancy literature terms at me like "sarcasm" and "irony" but more aptly "satire," and I will insist on not understanding your meaning.

    With love,
    Burt

    Anything that ends with "With love, Burt" becomes my favorite post in a thread.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    Did you mean to type that?
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Indeed he did. I was just too lazy to repeat myself when my post was one or two before his. If he didn't read it then, he probably wouldn't read it now, so I gave up :indifferent:

    I don't understand! She clearly is concerned about how bulky heavy lifting made her, and my concerns are corroborated by others in this thread. You can throw fancy literature terms at me like "sarcasm" and "irony" but more aptly "satire," and I will insist on not understanding your meaning.

    With love,
    Burt

    Anything that ends with "With love, Burt" becomes my favorite post in a thread.

    QFT!
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.
    futucutkut yutuo.

    ^^^ What she said
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

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  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    and here I was thinking that my opinion of you couldn't get any lower. You really are thick.

    I am confused... I was just trying to be helpful after multiply times she has been severely rude on my posts for no reason... I can look passed her trolling and do my best to put things in perspective for her and tell her she's fine... Maybe what i said came out wrong.

    From her original post:
    Still think heavy lifting will make you "bulky?" Think again.


    Heavy lifting ladies, I invite you to post YOUR before and after pics. Maybe, just maybe, we can attempt to snuff out this, "WEIGHT LIFTING WILL MAKE ME HYOOOOGE" myth.[/img]
  • SatchGallamax
    SatchGallamax Posts: 549 Member
    OP you're not bulky, you look the same, maybe try taking new pictures with out standing in a different angle. You will see what i am talking about.

    Uhmmmm... what?

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  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    Here's a gif one of my friends wanted. Use as you see fit.

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