REAL MFP women, weight training Befores and Afters

BEFORE: Age 45


AFTER: Age 51

Congratulations! I would never guess that you were 51! You look much younger!

Kudos to you all. NROLFW should be a Christmas stocking stuffer for all.

What I love about strength training? When the "dieters" are worried about how to lose the most pounds, and THIS is only five pounds.







No deprivation required.

I'm just about to start out on the NROL4W program so have loved seeing this. So much inspiration in one thread! Thankyou to everyone who has posted their progress pics, I am in awe of each and every one of you.

what's NROL4W?

So I keep seeing the term "barbie weights" How much did you guys start with for each exersice and how much do you lift now? I've been really wanting to get into weight lifting but I don't know where to start without a gym membership or a personal trainer

BTW fantastic job ladies you are an insperation ;-)

Awesome!! I do weights too but not that heavy as many female here. Gosh missed my days with my ex training on weights. It helps a lot in building muscles toning n shaping being more define in cutting n shape.
Gosh hope to get back to good programme on weights lifting again. Thanks for your sharing! ^.^

Question for you lifting ladies... Sorry of its already been asked ... What exactly is lifting ? I know it's lifting weights but do you do specific lifting programs or just go to the gym and use all the weight machines??? Help!!!
Someone point me in the right direction!
Clueless:)

Question for you lifting ladies... Sorry of its already been asked ... What exactly is lifting ? I know it's lifting weights but do you do specific lifting programs or just go to the gym and use all the weight machines??? Help!!!
Someone point me in the right direction!
Clueless:)

In this sense, "Lifting" means lifting HEAVY. As in, as heavy as you possibly can so that you can only do the number of reps your program states and no more. A lot of them will be as few as 4 or up to 12 reps. NROLFW starts you at 15 reps because it knows that you're going to underestimate how much you can actually lift so it gives you higher reps and then decreases them as you go.

I started by reading NROLFW, I can't really afford a trainer but this book has a lot of information about how much to eat for lifting, some recipes, why lifting is good for you, warm up routines, and a 6 month lifting program. I however did not follow the lifting program all the way through (just through stage 5) because I got bored of it and the workouts are really long. I think for a beginner (I was clueless when I started too!) it's a great read regardless of whether not you do the program. It's only 12 dollars on amazon.

I agree with 3dogsrunning that I need to be following a program to lift heavy, so now I'm following Stronglifts 5x5. It has an iphone app for tracking your workouts which makes it really simple. It's also a very simple program that has 5 different combination lifts that you repeat every other workout (3 one day, 3 the other, squats are on both days). I might throw in some isolation moves when I am further into the program and I always do my own abs work at the end, but I like how simple and straight forward this program is, no complicated crazy lifts.

Feel free to ask me any questions you want about lifting heavy now that we're friends

Wow! I saw the first thread and I'm just in awe!! Very very inspiring!! Those that posted pictures, what a transformation!! How do u knw when to increase the weights?

Which program is best, new rules or strong lift??