heavy lifting bulking up thighs
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cherriegh
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Hi
I'm female 5'2 doing SL 5X5 and lifting heavy on a calorie deficit, noticed I'm not losing inches and my thighs are firmer AND bigger...I've measured them. What can I do to slim them down? I do minimal cardio mostly walk incline for 40mins or hiit
Been at this over 2 months now. I thought heavy lifting tones and firm up legs and lose inches....
Suggestions pls
I'm female 5'2 doing SL 5X5 and lifting heavy on a calorie deficit, noticed I'm not losing inches and my thighs are firmer AND bigger...I've measured them. What can I do to slim them down? I do minimal cardio mostly walk incline for 40mins or hiit
Been at this over 2 months now. I thought heavy lifting tones and firm up legs and lose inches....
Suggestions pls
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muscular thighs are awesome and sexy. embrace them.0
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I have me some really thick thighs...
Some from genetics and some from being a track runner back in my day... I do a lot of squats and lunges and more squats and lunges..
Love your thighs.. they are the only ones you have.. Embrace them and I can tell you that if people notice them, they know you work out...
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Are they bigger or just changed shape? Measuring in the same place?
Seems unlikely they would have grown massively in two months unless your eating masses more too. Are you eatimg at a large surplus?
(Saying that I admit since lifting my legs are a different shape, depends what shape you like I guess?)
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my guess is water retention from doing 5x5 and you are not really gaining ...
are you new to lifting? If yes, you could have newbie gains..
but like others said, embrace your thighs...0 -
How many reps are you doing? How many sets are you doing? Typically heavy lifting will get you stronger but not add a bunch of size to your muscle. Rule of thumb for most people is 1-7 reps for strength, 8-12 reps for size(muscle hypertrophy=muscle growth) and 12+ reps for toning. Everyone is different so you'll have to experiment with your rep ranges and the volume of training you do.0
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vogonuts77 wrote: »How many reps are you doing? How many sets are you doing? Typically heavy lifting will get you stronger but not add a bunch of size to your muscle. Rule of thumb for most people is 1-7 reps for strength, 8-12 reps for size(muscle hypertrophy=muscle growth) and 12+ reps for toning. Everyone is different so you'll have to experiment with your rep ranges and the volume of training you do.
:huh:
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vogonuts77 wrote: »How many reps are you doing? How many sets are you doing? Typically heavy lifting will get you stronger but not add a bunch of size to your muscle. Rule of thumb for most people is 1-7 reps for strength, 8-12 reps for size(muscle hypertrophy=muscle growth) and 12+ reps for toning. Everyone is different so you'll have to experiment with your rep ranges and the volume of training you do.
did you miss the part where OP said SL 5x5?????????0 -
vogonuts77 wrote: »How many reps are you doing? How many sets are you doing? Typically heavy lifting will get you stronger but not add a bunch of size to your muscle. Rule of thumb for most people is 1-7 reps for strength, 8-12 reps for size(muscle hypertrophy=muscle growth) and 12+ reps for toning. Everyone is different so you'll have to experiment with your rep ranges and the volume of training you do.
secondly 12+ is muscle endurance- not "toning"
the visual perception of "tone" is completely dependent on body fat percentage.0 -
I'm new to lifting and yes my thighs have firmed up and not as jiggly but gained 2 inch on them....I'm hoping it is water weight swelling and it will subside
how long does it take for the water to subside? I've seen posts from women lifting heavy with small muscular thighs and thot I shud try it as well...
does cardio help on non lifting days?
patience I hope now....0 -
vogonuts77 wrote: »How many reps are you doing? How many sets are you doing? Typically heavy lifting will get you stronger but not add a bunch of size to your muscle. Rule of thumb for most people is 1-7 reps for strength, 8-12 reps for size(muscle hypertrophy=muscle growth) and 12+ reps for toning. Everyone is different so you'll have to experiment with your rep ranges and the volume of training you do.
secondly 12+ is muscle endurance- not "toning"
the visual perception of "tone" is completely dependent on body fat percentage.
When I see the word "tone" used to describe a weightlifting goal I tend to fade out a bit. Like the way they had the teacher talk to the students on the old Charlie Brown specials.
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It's highly unlikely you gained two inches of muscle in your thighs. You're probably just retaining water. It's very common and can happen at any point. Two months wouldn't really do that.0
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I'm new to lifting and yes my thighs have firmed up and not as jiggly but gained 2 inch on them....I'm hoping it is water weight swelling and it will subside
how long does it take for the water to subside? I've seen posts from women lifting heavy with small muscular thighs and thot I shud try it as well...
does cardio help on non lifting days?
patience I hope now....
ok my guess is newbie gains + water retention = two inch gain0 -
Yep, my bad, lumped the SL 5X5 together and didn't pick up on it. Well, everyone has their opinions on what ranges are what and what works, just have to figure out what works best for you. I've done a 5x5 before and got really good strength gains, didn't pack on too much size.
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When I go from completely sedentary to doing any kind of exercise really, it's a matter of mere days before my quads start to look very prominent. Why this is, I don't know. My instinct is to go "Oh noes! I don't want to keep working my legs or they're going to get enormous!!" But my logical side knows that as I continue with what I'm doing, I'm going to drop fat everywhere and in the end my legs are actually going to look slimmer.
My suggestion would be not to worry about it.0 -
I easily put on muscle mass on my legs, so I don't lift as heavy anymore I do higher reps and more HIIT sessions.0
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What has happened with your weight in those 2 months?0
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