women and weight training (Pic heavy)
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LOVE!!
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Girl-you didn't look bad before but you are smokin' now!!! dammmnnn!!! All your hard work paid off! thanks for sharing-what an inspiration!!!!!!!!0
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Wow. Thanks for posting this. My brain has become cluttered with conflicting opinions posted in these forums. You look great! After 42 - 44 pounds of weight loss in 10 months timing I've hit a plateau. This kind of helps me to change gears and focus on heavy lifting. Thanks again for inspiring me!0
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THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!!!! You're 100% right and an inspiration!!!0
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Well, you look very bite-able. Good job!0
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Awesome, awesome, awesome!0
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Amazing, you look fantastic. Love your dress, btw!0
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I want to be a she-hulk like the OP
Amazing! I just don't really know where to start. I go to the gym at the university where I work and the kids who work there, well, I'm not sure how much help they'd be. I can't afford a personal trainer. Would the book New Rules of Lifting for Women be helpful if I'm totally starting from scratch? I've only ever used the weight machines - never the free weights.0 -
Love love LOVE this!!! Fantastic work, OP!!!!0
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I LOVE your arms!!!
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I see so many beginners here, particularly women who are scared of the weights! DON'T BE! And don't stay in your comfort zone of 5lb-10lbers! Push yourself! I promise you'll love the results. Also, do it before your cardio and it will boost your calories lost. I wish I had known this when I first started losing weight. I focused pretty strictly on cardio and calisthenics to lose the weight. But started adding some dumbbell routines as I went along. When I finally joined the gym, I met some great people (including my current amazing boyfriend) who have taught me proper techniques and new workouts to better myself and my body. I also recently started taking whey protien as well and have already seen a difference! I think women assume that if they touch a dumbbell they're going to turn into a she-hulk, but without proper nutrition and the right drugs it doesn't happen like that: this is what happens
Starting with just cardio:
Workout progress by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people
/kristinamoser/]Khrystina the Ninja[/url], on Flickr
Then I started learning bit by bit at a gym. Had terrible form, and limited equipment at my parents resort (yes, resort gym -_- haha)
Eventually they said I could no longer workout there unless I wanted to spend nearly a thousand dollars a month for my own membership 0_0
learning. by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
wrar? by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
arms by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
Then I joined LA Fitness and started really amping it up!
Beast Mode by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
A MONTH after that photo was taken I took this one
0914121528 by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
My training buddy Tony has taught me so much about weight training and pushing my limits. None of those fake squats anymore
IMG950557 by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr.
Shoulder routine
shoulder day by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
Snapshot_20121207 by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
triceps and shoulders by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
POV abs by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr
Take my word for it ladies, once in a while it's ok to join the big boys in the back of the gym. Don't be intimidated. The results don't lie! I've never been more confident in my body my whole life! I'm not stick thin, I'm fit! I weigh a bit more than I did in high school and yet I feel like I have a better body for it! And all those nay-sayers who claim that you'll look "Manly" with muscles....they can bite me ;-)
DSCN8386 by Khrystina the Ninja, on Flickr0 -
I LOVE your arms!!!
Amazing work.0 -
Awesome thread! Thanks for posting! You look amazing!0
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As someone who is trying to get back where I was 10 years ago when I was kickboxing and boxing heavily, thank you for this! I have lost count of how many times I have had to tell women that weight training does not make you manly.
Another thing as a newly diagnosed diabetic, weight training helps burn sugar and carbs off faster than cardio does and it boosts the calories burned in cardio. After 6 weeks I've now been able to up my weights, and while the progress is slow, I know I will get back to the weights I used to be able to do.
And there are PLENTY of men that can appreciate an athletic, muscular build on a woman, trust me. I used to wrestle plenty of them.0 -
great post!!!0
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Bumping this for motivation later.
Good on ya girly. Keep picking things up and putting them down.
Sincerly,
A fellow lover of weights.0 -
Very inpsiring photos...keep up the great work. You look AWESOME!0
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Wow, you look stunning! Congrats on your progress!0
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This is what I want to do!!! Starting this month, I want to start weight/strength training at the gym!
Thanks for inspiring me!!
And yeah, I told my bf I wanted to start lifting, and his first words were "you are going to get big and bulk up".
hahaha I should show him this.....0 -
I want to be a she-hulk like the OP
Amazing! I just don't really know where to start. I go to the gym at the university where I work and the kids who work there, well, I'm not sure how much help they'd be. I can't afford a personal trainer. Would the book New Rules of Lifting for Women be helpful if I'm totally starting from scratch? I've only ever used the weight machines - never the free weights.
I was in the same place as you. I read that book. I am now 8 weeks in and loving it. I suggest this book to anyone and everyone.0
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