womens' secret to being too bulky...

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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Well...huge purses full of whatever and carry a toddler on your hip. Better yet, carry two toddlers, for symmetry!

    I do this! My 4 year old and 2 year old weigh about the same. It's not a problem to carry both unless they start getting squirmy.
  • neacail
    neacail Posts: 228 Member
    I must know this. I lift heavy weights at least 3x per week, eat lots of protein (and carbs and fat) often at a surplus, but I find it is just HARD to gain weight as lean muscle mass.

    How do women just start lifting and immediately explode? I must know your secrets.

    What exactly is it that you're looking for? Do you just want to gain lean muscle mass, or do you want to look cut?

    I gain lean muscle mass very easily, but I never look cut. At one point in time (nearly twenty years ago), I was the strongest woman in my gym. But, while I had a nice firm looking physical shape, I never looked "cut." I worked with several different trainers and nutritionists over the course of six years. Each new trainer or nutritionist was always optimistic that we'd figure it out naturally (without juicing), but it never happened. Eventually I just accepted that I was never naturally going to look like Rachel McLish.
  • demorelli
    demorelli Posts: 508 Member
    I must know this. I lift heavy weights at least 3x per week, eat lots of protein (and carbs and fat) often at a surplus, but I find it is just HARD to gain weight as lean muscle mass.

    How do women just start lifting and immediately explode? I must know your secrets.

    What exactly is it that you're looking for? Do you just want to gain lean muscle mass, or do you want to look cut?

    I gain lean muscle mass very easily, but I never look cut. At one point in time (nearly twenty years ago), I was the strongest woman in my gym. But, while I had a nice firm looking physical shape, I never looked "cut." I worked with several different trainers and nutritionists over the course of six years. Each new trainer or nutritionist was always optimistic that we'd figure it out naturally (without juicing), but it never happened. Eventually I just accepted that I was never naturally going to look like Rachel McLish.

    Your muscles actually look more cut when you're dehydrated. That's what they do for competition photoshoots. It's really not a healthy state to be in.
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    Anavar and winstrol.

    If they're in a deficit then also primobolan.
  • carrieous
    carrieous Posts: 1,024 Member
    eat more. and if you really want to gain, eat something dense before bed like cottage cheese or ice cream
  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
    because there are she-hulks inside of all of us. lifting anything more than a purse will bring her out.
  • fireant777
    fireant777 Posts: 15
    You need to eat at a calorie surplus to gain mass and get even somewhat bulky. U need to be eating more than maintenance and keep lifting heavy.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Exercises with weights make you bulky...

    3 sets of 5 reps each...


    using 3lb pink dumbbells.





    But they HAVE to be pink. Duh.
  • fireant777
    fireant777 Posts: 15
    Exercises with weights make you bulky...

    3 sets of 5 reps each...


    using 3lb pink dumbbells.




    Lmao!!!
    But they HAVE to be pink. Duh.
  • jestersand
    jestersand Posts: 61 Member
    There's no secret. We don't bulk up with muscle. We naturally have more fat than men, so when we lift, we gain muscle which is then insulated by that nice layer of fat, thus giving the appearance of bulk. In order to lose the bulk appearance, we have to increase our cardio to get rid of the fat.
  • millerll
    millerll Posts: 873 Member
    Well, first you take a dog, then you put a watermelon on its head..............
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    You have to be a pear shape

    For some odd reason, they put on muscle really easy.. esp on their lower halves.
  • a_mandolin_
    a_mandolin_ Posts: 336 Member
    Exercises with weights make you bulky...

    3 sets of 5 reps each...
    :sad:

    using 3lb pink dumbbells.





    But they HAVE to be pink. Duh.

    I disagree. I once went to the gym and instead of pink, they were neon green, still 3lbs. I thought they would be a bit much, being all manly colored, but I thought I would try them because everybody says to lift heavy.

    The next day, I my bulging biceps ripped the arms out of my shirt.
  • runlikeananna
    runlikeananna Posts: 42 Member
    There is no secret apart from consistency. Take photos of yourself as you go along and you will be surprised. I don't know how to put a photo up here but I went from having bingo wing nanna arms to being well on the way to a set of Des and Troy in 9 months. Most was done using bodyweight exercises and I have just started doing Grit Strength and some weight work to work on my neck, back and legs.

    The photos I took really showed the differences I made.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I just think about lifting and I get bulky. I just assumed that everyone had this ability.
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    Dude I dunno. I was riding a bicycle and squatting my bodyweight (no big bulky heavy pieces of iron here, just me) and within two months my thighs were like HYOOOOGE. I figured I'd better start walking...slowly...wouldn't want to walk too fast and then have my calves get all hyooooge too. Gawd. Sometimes being a woman really sucks.

    you too?

    i thought it was just me!
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    Well, first you take a dog, then you put a watermelon on its head..............

    For the win!
  • sunsnstatheart
    sunsnstatheart Posts: 2,544 Member
    Well, first you take a dog, then you put a watermelon on its head..............

    For the win!

    :drinker:
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    We are special snowflakes.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    You have to be a pear shape

    For some odd reason, they put on muscle really easy.. esp on their lower halves.

    *nods*
  • CakeFit21
    CakeFit21 Posts: 2,521 Member
    I'm not giving away my secrets.
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
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    Needs to know the secrets from all you bulky Hulkinator females!!! Why I am being left out?
  • Otterluv
    Otterluv Posts: 9,083 Member
    It's the cleanses, they release the toxins that inhibit bulk. If you are having trouble bulking, you obviously are loaded with toxins, lots and lots of toxins.
  • watfordjc
    watfordjc Posts: 304 Member
    The secret for men is chest/back hair.
    The secret for women is a moustache.

    Natural testosterone and growth hormone levels (i.e. if you have never taken supplements, worked out, had HRT, etc.) are one of the things that contribute to how easy it is to gain muscle, as is body type (although whether natural levels are a result of natural body type or it's the other way around or it's even "mesomorphs have thick hair because they are mesomorphs", who knows).

    Without a brain transplant, however, you have to work with what you have. Once you know what you have, adapt your workouts to "what might work" for your body type. In the case of hard-gainers, that is typically typing 'ectomorph gain muscle' into your favourite search engine and weeding out the rubbish.
  • Lift_This_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    You're not getting enough estrogen. They put it in chicken and milk. Eat more chicken and milk.

    Then your boobies will grow too!

    no wonder my breasts are still the same size with weight loss and lifting...i love milk and chicken!!
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Raspberries ketone make me bulky.
  • Lift_This_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    Raspberries ketone make me bulky.

    Dr Oz, is such a genius!!!
  • jayche
    jayche Posts: 1,128 Member
    In for this I've been trying to get bulky for a while now
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    I want to know the secrets. Been lifting for nearly a year, my fats didn't all turn into muscle yet :sad:

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