HALP! Heavy Lifting Made Me SUPAH Bulky!!!

LeenaRuns

I got bulky too :sad:

DontStopB_Leakin

I know you didn't want "bodybuilding poses" but this is the results of a full year of all natural bodybuilding. Took lots of heavy lifting plus special diet and supplements.

You look effing amazing, and even posed out, not at all "bulky".

DontStopB_Leakin

I don't have proper side by sides - but my progress was from a reasonable caloric deficit and lifting some weights.

I've seen these before, but they still amaze me.

usmcmp

I don't have proper side by sides - but my progress was from a reasonable caloric deficit and lifting some weights.

Still love your transformation!

JenaePavlak

PERFECT!!! More peeps need to see this stuff!!

THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!!!

usmcmp

Before, a few months prior to heavy lifting:



170 lbs. Size 12 dress. Approximately 30% BF.
Waist = 33 inches
Hips = 41 inches
Under bust = 38 inches
Thighs = 23 inches
Arms = 13 inches



Now, 5 months after starting a progressive loading heavy lifting program:



151.8 lbs. Size 4 dress. Approximately 20% BF.
Waist = 27 inches
Hips = 36.5 inches
Under bust = 31 inches
Thighs = 21.5 inches
Arms = 11 inches


17.2 lbs lost. 4 sizes lost. Approximately 10% BF lost. 21 inches (and counting) lost.



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.

You look fantastic!

SlimsLiftingMoreThanLipstick

Same here!

jpolinisse

Disappointed....I actually wanted to see bulky.

BurtHuttz

Same here!

Dang slim you look great in those profile photos yourself - incidentally you also look like you could be Leaky's sister.

Liatush

I'm in the before stage, but I admire you all!!!! Keep on inspiring

ninerbuff

Ooooh you better stop then!!!! Tracy Anderson has the best videos! You aren't allowed to use more than 3lbs dumbells to work out!!!

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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

jonilynn70

Great inspiration. THANK YOU FOR POSTING and keep up the awesome work!!!

cleotherio

2 hours a day on the elliptical will get rid of that yucky muscly manly bulkiness!





j/k you ladies look fabulous.

tmitchellh

Wow I love all these pics and how amazing you can look from lifting. Thank you for sharing!

I have been increasing weights for a year, but for women how much do you lift/increase on various machines??? I know everybody is different, but ballpark. FYI I am meeting with a trainer next week, but I never know if I am doing enough/too much.

I've got a lot to lose, but oddly over the last year or two even though I haven't had a dramatic weight loss or even INCHES I look different/better. WTH?? :huh:

danasings

AMAZING!

X 1000

:bigsmile:

BurtHuttz

Wow I love all these pics and how amazing you can look from lifting. Thank you for sharing!

I have been increasing weights for a year, but for women how much do you lift/increase on various machines??? I know everybody is different, but ballpark. FYI I am meeting with a trainer next week, but I never know if I am doing enough/too much.

I've got a lot to lose, but oddly over the last year or two even though I haven't had a dramatic weight loss or even INCHES I look different/better. WTH?? :huh:

Speak with your trainer about getting off of the machines and doing compound lifts. Machines isolate muscle groups but compound lifts with free weights enable your body to function exactly the way it is designed to - - rather than in the one or two degrees of freedom than the engineer's designed the machines to isolate.

skinnyinnotime

Fantastic, great transformation.......I bulked up too, ugh!!!

DontStopB_Leakin

Wow I love all these pics and how amazing you can look from lifting. Thank you for sharing!

I have been increasing weights for a year, but for women how much do you lift/increase on various machines??? I know everybody is different, but ballpark. FYI I am meeting with a trainer next week, but I never know if I am doing enough/too much.

I've got a lot to lose, but oddly over the last year or two even though I haven't had a dramatic weight loss or even INCHES I look different/better. WTH?? :huh:

Speak with your trainer about getting off of the machines and doing compound lifts. Machines isolate muscle groups but compound lifts with free weights enable your body to function exactly the way it is designed to - - rather than in the one or two degrees of freedom than the engineer's designed the machines to isolate.

This.

amyhoss

I am loving this thread!! I want to fast forward time to 6 months from now so that I can share my results!!

jonilynn70

WOWWWW~~~!!!! How does one get started with a lifting program? I see things on the internet of course but have no idea how to do the exercises because they have names only, what weights are required, etc. Anyone point me in the right direction???? Do I have to buy a program or are there free workouts online? Looks like Stronglifts 5 x 5 requires a membership? 5/3/1 talks about weight lifting like I should know what they mean.

silvergurl518

You look incredible! The rest of us heavy lifting 'BULKY OMGZ' women salute you! :drinker:

^couldn't have said it better. :P

Crankstr

SQUAT, BEEP!!! (rhymes with witch)

littlepinkhearts

I LOVE how your waist went so tiny!!! AWESOME job all around, including lifting!!!

usmcmp

SQUAT, BEEP!!! (rhymes with witch)

caseythirteen

Wow I love all these pics and how amazing you can look from lifting. Thank you for sharing!

I have been increasing weights for a year, but for women how much do you lift/increase on various machines??? I know everybody is different, but ballpark. FYI I am meeting with a trainer next week, but I never know if I am doing enough/too much.

I've got a lot to lose, but oddly over the last year or two even though I haven't had a dramatic weight loss or even INCHES I look different/better. WTH?? :huh:

Speak with your trainer about getting off of the machines and doing compound lifts. Machines isolate muscle groups but compound lifts with free weights enable your body to function exactly the way it is designed to - - rather than in the one or two degrees of freedom than the engineer's designed the machines to isolate.

This.

I second the This! Compound moves make a big difference and will get you to where you want to be more efficiently IMO.

My profile has some befores and afters but not great ones. I owe all of my changes to a healthy diet and lifting!

SarahBeth0625

Good job!!

Mine is a combination of cardio, lifting, carrying babies (well, 3 kiddos), and many, many pushpus.



Scary bulky, right?!? Rarr....

Mainebikerchick

Lea, you look ABSOLUTELY AMAZING & I will die a happy woman if I can get my body to look even half as good as yours! I know weight lifting is the way to do it and I'm not seeing a ton of results yet, but I AM feeling a lot stronger, so I am definitely going to keep it up! Thanks for being my friend and showing us all that we CAN DO THIS!!!!

Crankstr

BAH..i was trying to shrink that monster huge photo before it got quoted:grumble:

OneEyeUp

You all look great. Keep lifting. It increases bone density, and one of the main ailments of humans as they get older is osteoporosis. You want to be the old woman/man who can "run with the youngest of them." Many old people fracture and break bones simply from a fall, or getting up too fast. Weight lifting increases bone density by a variable 20% margin, so anyone who tells you to stop because it makes you "bulky," doesn't have a clue. Women naturally have less bone density than men, so for its extra important for the gals. Strong women make strong families. Keep it up.

BurtHuttz

I second the This! Compound moves make a big difference and will get you to where you want to be more efficiently IMO.

My profile has some befores and afters but not great ones. I owe all of my changes to a healthy diet and lifting!

Work your whole body!