HALP! Heavy Lifting Made Me SUPAH Bulky!!!

Lea you rock! Heavy lifting made me bulky too.

Just revisiting another of my favorites from this thread.

Do you find deadlifting more exhausting than squatting? Because I do.

I find certain mfp members to be more exhausting than doing deadlifts and squats on the same day.

QFT.

And yes, it is more thoroughly exhausting, but it takes me longer to get there with deadlifts. Also my grip strength has increased like woah, and this is coming from a girl who milked goats by hand for a decade. I give a hell of a handjob.

First off, I think I love you now.

Second, what do you mean takes you longer? Normally with deadlifts while I am halfway throug warming up I am thinking "Damn, and I still have another 200lbs to add?" I almost want to lay down when I am done.

DAT BACK!!! Inspirational!!!

Pu, why I'm even bothering to respond to you, I don't ****ing know.

I added 2 lbs of lean body mass in the 5 months I've weight lifted, all while in a deficit. Had I not weight lifted, I would have continued to lose more LBM while being in a deficit. As stated ABOVE MY BEFORE PICTURE, that picture was taken several months before I EVER picked up weights. My starting weight prior to weight lifting was 155 lbs. My starting BF was 27%. I don't have a comparable picture of myself right before weight lifting, so I used one that was taken a few months before. Again, that's why I added a disclaimer. I lost 133 lbs prior to weight lifting, yet only lost 6 sizes. I lost 3 lbs via weight lifting, yet I lost 4 sizes. My measurements in the before picture are the same as they were the day I started weight lifting. You do the ****ing math.

You outright admitted that the only reason you're in here is because I've "trolled" your threads, which, sir, is incorrect. I've not once trolled your threads. I've simply called you out on your blatantly ignorant bull****.

You don't like me. That's fine. I don't like you. But not ONCE have I discredited your weight loss efforts.

Don't you dare ****ing discredit mine.


ETA: Go ahead, Pu. Report the **** out of me. Get the whole thread shut down. I don't care. My point has been made, and now even more people know what a complete **** you are.

wait, i am confused... you don't like people criticizing what you have done?? Oh okay... Maybe you shouldn't do it to other people. Yes i know i look like the *kitten* because no one really knows what you have done... I never got on anyone case, or started crap with anyone. They dish it out to me when it comes back to them they complain. Here is advice to most people who read this, treat people the way you want to be treated. That simple.

Now on subject, I didn't discredit your weight loss. I give you props for that. What i am saying isn't about your weight loss. I even mentioned you do look like you have less body fat. I am not talking about the weight you lost in the past. I am talking about these 5 months of your lifting. I am just saying, weight lifting didn't give you your results(in the last 5 months or whatever). Nothing more, nothing less. That's all.

You can keep saying it but it doesn't make it true. Lifting DID cause the results that she is reporting in this thread. That's the whole point of this thread...and it's backed up by several other women who have posted in success threads and other likewise threads that while on a deficit and either not exercising or just doing cardio they DID NOT get the same results of LBM and smaller size until they started lifting. Smaller measurements but more definition, more LBM, lower BF%...the numbers are there.

Now here's the kicker, how are they going to gain LBM on a calorie deficit? (i will go for newbie gains, but those are small). What i just realized, it's not really about increase of LBM. it's about muscle tension in a relaxed state. (i forgot the name of this). Your muscles look better, but there isn't more muscle mass.The muscles are just contracted when in a relaxed state.

I do agree women can look better lifting weights. I am all for that. This doesn't mean there is an increase of LBM. It actually gets pretty complex. This leads in to different types of hypertrophy(increase of muscle cell size) and neurological adaptation. That's beyond the scope of this discussion. I am saying "weight training didn't cause her 20lbs weight loss(or whatever it was in 5 months). Does she have less fat on her? yes... I am not denying that. As I think of it, I know women about her starting weight and lost about 30-40lbs with out weight lifting and gotten similar results.

Before, a few months prior to heavy lifting:



170 lbs. Size 12 dress. Approximately 30% BF.
Waist = 33 inches
Hips = 41 inches
Under bust = 38 inches
Thighs = 23 inches
Arms = 13 inches



Now, 5 months after starting a progressive loading heavy lifting program:



151.8 lbs. Size 4 dress. Approximately 20% BF.
Waist = 27 inches
Hips = 36.5 inches
Under bust = 31 inches
Thighs = 21.5 inches
Arms = 11 inches


17.2 lbs lost. 4 sizes lost. Approximately 10% BF lost. 21 inches (and counting) lost.



Still think heavy lifting will make you "bulky?" Think again.


Heavy lifting ladies, I invite you to post YOUR before and after pics. Maybe, just maybe, we can attempt to snuff out this, "WEIGHT LIFTING WILL MAKE ME HYOOOOGE" myth.

SQUAT, BEEP!!! (rhymes with witch)