Weight training for a beginner - HELP

It is a different game for women as far as weightlifting goes. You should skip the weights and just use your body as your primary tool. Pushups, shoulder emphasis pushups, crunches, squats, sit ups, and lunges would get you toned easily if you did a set of each for say 20 repetitions, 3 sets of each 3 days a week.

As someone with 2 ruptured disc in her back I can say YES you can lift!!!!! BUT do not do it without the supervision of someone trained in sports medicine , you also need to clear it with your doctor.

I love New Rules of Lifting for Women. I dislocated my hip bone which in turn misaligned my spine. NROL has been wonderful to me and my body. Please ignore Tylersfitness.

Definitely skip the weights because of the disc herniation, and ignore the gender issue Tyler seems to think matters. Do the exercises he detailed above though but skip the lunges, you really shouldn't be doing that with a bad disc. I would add pull-ups to the mix most definitely - great for the arms and safe for the back.

A note - where is the bad disc? If it is in your cervical or upper thoracic (neck and mid-back) you'll want to be very gentle with your pull-ups or perhaps skip them altogether.

It is a different game for women as far as weightlifting goes. You should skip the weights and just use your body as your primary tool. Pushups, shoulder emphasis pushups, crunches, squats, sit ups, and lunges would get you toned easily if you did a set of each for say 20 repetitions, 3 sets of each 3 days a week.

This is a huge load of crap!!! Lift weight lift heavy! It is not a different game at all muscles do not know what gender you are. Please do not say this to another woman ever again. Look up strong lifts ask your doctor how heavy you can go and do it! You can also use your body weight but it will only take you so far.

I'll second that... ask your Doc to spell out a weight max and work with what is suggested. Personally, my Doc has ordered me to lift no more than 10 lbs because of my back injury so I do mostly cardio, situps, pushups, dips, etc.

It is a different game for women as far as weightlifting goes. You should skip the weights and just use your body as your primary tool. Pushups, shoulder emphasis pushups, crunches, squats, sit ups, and lunges would get you toned easily if you did a set of each for say 20 repetitions, 3 sets of each 3 days a week.

You all are kind of attacking me lol... But I guess I didn't make myself very clear, I wasn't trying to be a chauvinist here and say women can't lift, my point is you can use your body and its weight in order to get tone. That's what I do... Geez.

This is the problem. If you go in with the "toned" mentality you will never achieve the body transformation goals you're looking for. I personally cannot stand the word "toned".

OP I also recommend that book "New Rules of Lifting for Women". It's good.

You all are kind of attacking me lol... But I guess I didn't make myself very clear, I wasn't trying to be a chauvinist here and say women can't lift, my point is you can use your body and its weight in order to get tone. That's what I do... Geez.

^ It didn't sound like he was attacking women to me. Body weight exercises are great (especially for beginners) and then you can add more lifting. Whether you are using an external weight or your own body, you are still lifting "weight".

Some people can't do very many push-ups, but the ones who can are usually in great shape. Just a thought!

Ya know what lol... You're all right, im a terrible person for offering her any advice, ill be sure to delete my account here in the next thirty minutes and never speak a word again on this website.

Can I have your stuff?

Well go get awesome and toned, im glad you all are so empowered, i'll stick around and hear out the rest of the assault on me just for fun before I head out, I'm so utterly shocked at how seriously you all took my statement, shes been losing weight the last 3 weeks ive known her on here, her goals seemed to me to be to tone up and get fit, i gave her advice and you all attack me as if though I'm telling her shes a weakling who can't lift. Gym memberships and free weights cost money and not to mention time to get to, I was offering her simple advice that could save her time and money...

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