Squats made them bulky...

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  • RunningForeverMama
    RunningForeverMama Posts: 261 Member
    Everyone has something that works for them. That was my point. I know cardio doesn't always work for everyone but everyone is different and to keep posting repetitive threads is pointless imo.

    It's only pointless to people who don't want to hear it. Correcting misinformation is important, and the absurd idea that women are going to end up looking like men if they lift heavy weights is all over the place. There are new people joining this site all the time who have swallowed this notion that if they even look at an Olympic bar, they'll grow huge thighs. It's not that they don't WANT to lift weights; it's they're severely misinformed about what lifting does for the body.

    I get multiple messages every single day from women who have read my profile (wherein I make my affinity for lifting pretty freaking clear) and have seen my before and after photos, and they can't believe that I lift heavy weights and eat lots of real food and have somehow managed not to grow a penis. A lot of them write me back after a few weeks and tell me how much they love lifting. That alone makes it clear that we need MORE of these threads in the main forums, not less. It is most definitely not pointless, and if it truly didn't matter to you, you wouldn't have even opened this thread, let alone bothered to post in it.

    This! Every time I bring up lifting (or strength training) I hear the not wanting to get bulky argument. I overheard this exchange yesterday between a couple of receptionists at the doctors office.

    R1: My (I didn't hear what) is too big, I think I need to lift weights.
    R2: Then you'll just get biggger.
    R1: Yeah, that happened to me when I tried it before.
    R2: I just use little ankle weights when I walk.
    ...they went on about ankle weights from there.

    I wish I was more outgoing and would've spoke up.
  • resilient86
    resilient86 Posts: 35
    Haha. Ewww gross

    (Please PM me the links to all these photos. Thx)

    They're in my photobucket account next to all my junk shots bro...you still want the link?

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member



    She's just jealous. ;)

    Shame. She should try squatting heavy; always perks me right up.

    Girls that squat heavy perk me up ; )
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  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member

    I suggest you stick to elliptical machines and small 5lb weights.

    /chuckle
    So...Barbie weights.
    You should walk a mile in my shoes.
    A couple of times a week my boxing coach puts us through a workout with Barbie weights that sounds simple...until you do it.

    Take your pick of weight. They have 2lb, 3lb, 4lb, 5lb and 10lb.

    15 minutes of 90 second rounds with 30 second rests every 5 minutes. Coach calls one of the following:
    Run in place and punch straight up in the air. Sprint on the coach's command.
    Run in place and punch straight ahead. Sprint on the coach's command.
    Run in place and punch uppercuts. Sprint on the coach's command.
    Shadow box /w weights. Sprint on the coach's command.

    Five minutes into it your shoulders catch fire. 10 minutes into it your shoulders start failing from exhaustion. Hurt or not, nobody stops.

    And that's after running and jumping rope and focus mitts and before ladder footwork and sparring.

    With all due respect, I don't see any of them body builder types walking through the door. And I think I know why.
  • AntWrig
    AntWrig Posts: 2,273 Member
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  • Sweaty_N_Hungry
    Sweaty_N_Hungry Posts: 142
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    Fixed it.
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    Dont listen to them. There can never be too many female/weightlifting threads. Especially with squat booty pics.
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    (snip)

    In for the *kitten*.

    I need asspiration.
  • keithmustloseweight
    keithmustloseweight Posts: 309 Member


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  • Sweaty_N_Hungry
    Sweaty_N_Hungry Posts: 142
    Dont listen to them. There can never be too many female/weightlifting threads. Especially with squat booty pics.

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  • delaniecastillo
    delaniecastillo Posts: 284
    I can only hope my *kitten* looks that great one day where a creeper takes a pic of it while I squat.
  • Sweaty_N_Hungry
    Sweaty_N_Hungry Posts: 142
    I can only hope my *kitten* looks that great one day where a creeper takes a pic of it while I squat.

    That's a true compliment!
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    Squats keep them lifted :smile: And my husband really appreciates that :wink:

    But we still have come a long way from the days when it was thought "if a woman ran a marathon her uterus would fall out"


    Ssshhhhh... This is STILL my reasoning behind refusing to run..
    Same here, and I won't won't spill the beans. I am gong with 'it jars my ovaries"
    And now that my uterus has been removed, I have even LESS holding the ovaries in place...

    That one and the Excuse and the one about only needing to shuffle faster than a zombie.
  • delaniecastillo
    delaniecastillo Posts: 284
    I can only hope my *kitten* looks that great one day where a creeper takes a pic of it while I squat.

    That's a true compliment!

    I am truly serious as long as they aren't getting a grunt face in.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    If not for MFP I wouldn't know anything about heavy lifting. If people didn't beat this horse, I'd still be running my *kitten* off and wondering why I'm still not happy.

    A million times this! :drinker:

    I was happy when I got to my goal weight, but I wasn't thrilled with my deflated *kitten*. I just thought, "Well, you're almost 40, what do you expect?!"

    Then I started lifting. Now I'm over 40, and my tush is better than it was in my 20s..
  • Marll
    Marll Posts: 904 Member

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    Something about this pic really does it for me. Something amazing about it to me.

    Remember a girl in my weight lifting class many years ago in high school, squatted and deadlifted all the time, big thick thighs and a nice large round butt, that's what I like to see.
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member
    Haha. Ewww gross

    (Please PM me the links to all these photos. Thx)

    They're in my photobucket account next to all my junk shots bro...you still want the link?

    Dilemma! Almost worth it...almost. Haha :embarassed:
  • Sweaty_N_Hungry
    Sweaty_N_Hungry Posts: 142
    Haha. Ewww gross

    (Please PM me the links to all these photos. Thx)

    They're in my photobucket account next to all my junk shots bro...you still want the link?



    Dilemma! Almost worth it...almost. Haha :embarassed:

    This is your face when you saw the photos:

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  • catrinaHwechanged
    catrinaHwechanged Posts: 4,907 Member
    I can only hope my *kitten* looks that great one day where a creeper takes a pic of it while I squat.

    Haha!!!
  • WhitneySheree88
    WhitneySheree88 Posts: 222 Member
    I hope to look this bulky one day:drinker:
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    Dont listen to them. There can never be too many female/weightlifting threads. Especially with squat booty pics.
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  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    Dont listen to them. There can never be too many female/weightlifting threads. Especially with squat booty pics.
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    As long as you are looking at their butts and not their squat form, these are splendid pictures. For anyone interested in actually doing squats, it might be worth pointing out that looking up while a loaded barbell is resting on your cervical spine is a really, really bad idea. Don't do it. Look slightly down while squatting and keep your neck straight.
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    Dont listen to them. There can never be too many female/weightlifting threads. Especially with squat booty pics.
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    As long as you are looking at their butts and not their squat form, these are splendid pictures. For anyone interested in actually doing squats, it might be worth pointing out that looking up while a loaded barbell is resting on your cervical spine is a really, really bad idea. Don't do it. Look slightly down while squatting and keep your neck straight.

    I was wondering about that, actually. I always focus on a point on the floor a bit in front of me, but in pictures people always seem to craning their necks back/trapping the bar between their head and shoulders (does that make sense, description wise?) and so I'm always worried I'm doing it wrong.

    I now feel slightly better.
  • KatLifter
    KatLifter Posts: 1,314 Member

    I was wondering about that, actually. I always focus on a point on the floor a bit in front of me, but in pictures people always seem to craning their necks back/trapping the bar between their head and shoulders (does that make sense, description wise?) and so I'm always worried I'm doing it wrong.

    I now feel slightly better.

    Here's a good article on squat form, http://www.girlsgonestrong.com/secrets-to-mastering-the-squat-part-1/
  • brillmer
    brillmer Posts: 1,268 Member
    (snip)

    In for the *kitten*.

    I need asspiration.

    DEM LEGSSSSSSSSSSS

    i can only imagine that you are well on your way~
  • keithmustloseweight
    keithmustloseweight Posts: 309 Member
    Remember a girl in my weight lifting class many years ago in high school, squatted and deadlifted all the time, big thick thighs and a nice large round butt, that's what I like to see.

    Yeah man, teenage girls, amirite or amirite.
  • KatLifter
    KatLifter Posts: 1,314 Member
    Remember a girl in my weight lifting class many years ago in high school, squatted and deadlifted all the time, big thick thighs and a nice large round butt, that's what I like to see.

    Yeah man, teenage girls, amirite or amirite.

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  • Marll
    Marll Posts: 904 Member
    Not even so much being teenaged, but the fact that she was squatting and deadlifting and had killer thighs and butt...I'm just a leg and butt man I guess LOL.
  • Sweaty_N_Hungry
    Sweaty_N_Hungry Posts: 142
    Not even so much being teenaged, but the fact that she was squatting and deadlifting and had killer thighs and butt...I'm just a leg and butt man I guess LOL.

    You look more like a little blue guy with a big round head from this vantage point.
  • smalls9686
    smalls9686 Posts: 189 Member
    They should stick to cardio! Clearly the weights are making them look like men.

    Are you smoking something? They look Freaking awesome!

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