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    edited February 23 in Fitness and Exercise
    How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

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    • Posts: 868 Member
      I lifted weights for two years a long time ago, lifted up to 40 lb weights and I never bulked up like a man.
    • Posts: 201 Member
      I've heard over and over by many ppl who lift heavy that unless your doping, you're not going to bulk up like a man.
      Now.. I'm not saying that this is gospel!.. but this is from ppl who know a lot about lifting.
    • Posts: 370 Member
      just no......that's wrong.....you will get strong and lean....I squatted 100lbs on the squat rack the other day.....first time at that weight....it was awesome.....my legs felt great.....go for it!!!!
    • Posts: 916 Member
      How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.


      Lift ALL the weight!!!
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      That's 110% untrue. I bench 120. Deadlift 170. I look nothing like a man.
    • Posts: 398
      Women do not bulk when they lift heavy, they 'tone'.

      Lift the heaviest weights you can with good form. Trust me on this.
    • Posts: 2,038 Member
      Tell that someone...something bad!

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    • Posts: 8,376 Member
      You will start to look amazing when you lift as heavy as you can with good form, especially if you follow a good progressive program where there are regularly scheduled increases in weight that continue to challenge you. I am guessing whoever told you this doesn't want to you have a smoking hot body or the heath that comes from being strong.
    • Posts: 7,334 Member
      If you want to look like a man, get a sex change.
      If you want to be strong, trim, and look great, lift as heavy as you can.

      You won't get manly. Ever.
    • Posts: 5
      there is a difference between men and women all about Hormones and testosterone so impossible .:smile:
    • Posts: 7,010 Member
      no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.
    • Posts: 1,547 Member
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    • Posts: 1,547 Member
      no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

      That could just be the hair dude...
    • Posts: 1,282 Member
      no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

      It has nothing to do with the hair.
    • Posts: 9,420 Member
      How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

      My four-year-old is 43 pounds. What to do?
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    • Posts: 1,634 Member
      no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

      Is that because you have long hair or due to your chest hair being groomed into a heart?? LOL :wink:
    • Posts: 674 Member
      Back in the heyday my PR's were bench 135 and squat over 200. I was never 'bulky'.

      Now is another story... lol. But no, just no. You will not get bulky! Won't happen!
    • Posts: 9,026 Member
      How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

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    • Posts: 171 Member
      First, that is total BS as women can't get manly looking without hormones and/or surgery.

      Second, you don't build muscles overnight. Try lifting and IF you start to look more muscular than you want you can always stop lifting and let those muscles atrophy. But, I highly doubt you will ever get to that point.
    • Posts: 17,525 Member
      be careful you're vagina might actually fall out- I carry mine in a colostomy bag because at this point it just falls out all the time from heavy lifting.

      also women ask me out because of how manly I am!!!!
    • Posts: 9,420 Member
      be careful you're vagina might actually fall out- I carry mine in a colostomy bag because at this point it just falls out all the time from heavy lifting.

      also women ask me out because of how manly I am!!!!

      I would totally ask you out. We could get nachos with yogurt instead of sour cream.
    • Posts: 22,281 Member
      No, that's not true. That's just what THEY want you to think. Mostly so that when you don't get results you will go out desperately in search of diet pills, body wraps, and expensive shakes you have to add 20 more ingredients to just to choke it down.
    • Posts: 171 Member
      be careful you're vagina might actually fall out

      Dammit, I thought I only needed to worry about that when I was running a marathon. You mean to tell me I need to worry about it at the gym, too?
    • Posts: 73
      No, that's not true. That's just what THEY want you to think. Mostly so that when you don't get results you will go out desperately in search of diet pills, body wraps, and expensive shakes you have to add 20 more ingredients to just to choke it down.


      I totally need to see results because if I don't I lose my motivation. I take only one pill (B4) once a day
    • Posts: 9,420 Member
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      Dammit, I thought I only needed to worry about that when I was running a marathon. You mean to tell me I need to worry about it at the gym, too?

      Yup

      http://www.emedicinehealth.com/vaginal_prolapse/page2_em.htm
    • Posts: 73
      no. It's hard work to build manly muscles. Look at my profile pic. I lift heavy and I still barely look like a man.

      No comment lol
    • Posts: 73
      just no......that's wrong.....you will get strong and lean....I squatted 100lbs on the squat rack the other day.....first time at that weight....it was awesome.....my legs felt great.....go for it!!!!

      I can't still do that but someday I hope ! Do you have like strength training schedule during a week?
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      How many pounds woman should lift during strength training? Someone told me I shouldn't lift more than 30 pounds because then I will build to much muscles and I'll look like men.

      :laugh:
    • Posts: 17 Member
      Lift. Lift heavy for low reps.

      You're not going to "look like a man" unless you're supplementing with questionable substances. If anyone tells you that "you'll look like a man," it means that they don't want you looking better and/or getting stronger than them.
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