I thought I posted it but I guess I didn't.

How long are you supposed to rest between reps?

initially 90 seconds to 3 minutes... sometimes you may need a lil more

Thanks for making this!!! I went through the .PDF earlier this week and felt so discouraged. I am a fast reader but none of the info in it really talked about women lifting.

Now to work up my nerve to do this at the gym - there are never any women in the lifting area and I'm fearful of looking like a moron trying to use the squat rack or bench (if it's not already being hogged by a dude)

There isn't anything in there about women. Mainly because he doesn't really acknowledge that women exist. He never says that women can't do it either. Anyways theres no real difference in the program other than your starting weights may have to be lower. Also when you get into the higher weights you may need to go up 2.5 lbs or 1 lb increments instead of 5 to see gains.

As for being nervous I am a guy and I was scared as hell I was just going to get laughed at. Surely a 6'0 230lb guy should be lifting more than the bar right? I never even got a glance. Point being is most of it is in your head. Just have to get in there and do it. In a couple days you will feel comfortable. Also in my gym we have 3-4 women in the weight room at anytime. I never even notice them unless I'm just walking in. You'll probably find people pay way less attention to you than you think.

Thanks for making this!!! I went through the .PDF earlier this week and felt so discouraged. I am a fast reader but none of the info in it really talked about women lifting.

Now to work up my nerve to do this at the gym - there are never any women in the lifting area and I'm fearful of looking like a moron trying to use the squat rack or bench (if it's not already being hogged by a dude)

There isn't anything in there about women. Mainly because he doesn't really acknowledge that women exist. He never says that women can't do it either. Anyways theres no real difference in the program other than your starting weights may have to be lower. Also when you get into the higher weights you may need to go up 2.5 lbs or 1 lb increments instead of 5 to see gains.

As for being nervous I am a guy and I was scared as hell I was just going to get laughed at. Surely a 6'0 230lb guy should be lifting more than the bar right? I never even got a glance. Point being is most of it is in your head. Just have to get in there and do it. In a couple days you will feel comfortable. Also in my gym we have 3-4 women in the weight room at anytime. I never even notice them unless I'm just walking in. You'll probably find people pay way less attention to you than you think.

Great comment, thanks!

Thanks, lady!

Bumping for future reference--

Bump, this thread is so helpful!

I wish I had thought to do a search on MFP for women and StrongLifts before I tortured myself with over 200 pages of testosterone! Thanks for putting this together. Now I can refer back to this, instead of trying to wade thru all that manliness to refresh my memory when I need it.

Just what I needed...Thank you so much!

Thanks Tameko! I'm a Stronglifts newbie and was dreading reading that PDF!

I read the whole 200-and-something PDF! I got very insecure that I- as a woman- could do this. I´m a weakling and I know it. But you ladies rock!! I´m hopefully starting this tuesday. It is actually a kind of new idea for me to want to lift, but the more I think about it and read about it, it just feels right. I´m so exited! My Starting Strength book has been ordered, it arrives sometimes next week, I guess. I´m looking forward to read it.

I have signed up for his (Medhi) youtube channel, both A+B is there in it´s full length, but you probably allready know that.

Thank you so much for doing this! It is so important for me to know that other women can do this. It makes me feel like I can do it too. I know that I´m going to "dance" a lot with the trainers. I found out that a friend of mine goes to our gym and lifts, but it´s a completely different way they have shown her to do it. But I´m determined to do it the Stronglifts way.

Again, thank you very much. And if anyone is just as new to this, I´m open for getting a lifting buddy to challenge.

Thanks for this. xx

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I finished NROL4W a while ago. I'm looking to move on and continue going heavy. I had a LOT of success with New Rules, but the man himself said it's not designed to get into a power lifting kind of category, though it will build plenty of strength. My goal is an over 200lb DL...eventually lol I said I want to be able t pick up a grown man and throw him, should the need ever arise lol

Thank you for this. I've asked my trainer if we can start working on this and he's agreed. It'll be beneficial to me to read up on it beforehand so I don't look like a total idiot.

I want to hug this summary. I love it.

How do you know your max lifting weight. It said something about lifting at 50% of you max but i am not sure how to know that. Sorry if this sounds kind of dumb.. :ohwell:

Ok will do.. I am going to give this a try tonight. Hope i succeed. I am easily overwhelmed when reading things thinking I am going to do it all wrong. Until I do it and then realize it wasn't as complicated as it looked.