Women weight lifters

As it's all men in the gym and I feel like that's really extreme for beginners.

bbell1985 wrote: »

Willbenchforcupcakes wrote: »

I curse anytime I'm over 5 reps at least on main lifts.

I did 8's today for squat and I was so pisssed off the whole time. @SideSteel I hope there is a point to this.

8's are good. I have a lot of clients who are pretty fit repping in this range.

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Heavy weights with increasing reps by one a week (All Pro's).

I lost a lot of muscle mass two years ago through severe crash dieting but after three months on my current routine getting a lot stronger and feeling great (eating on average 800ish cals/ day and doing too much cardio is not the way to get healthy lol. Learned that the hard way).

misha1505 wrote: »

The regime I am on

If your regime includes squats, bench press, deadlifts, overhead press, rows, and the like...it's not extreme.

It's a routine that includes compound movements which give you more bang for your buck as compared to isolation movements such as bicep curls. You work more muscles with the movements, which in turn develops strength.

If you are a beginner, sure...ease into it. Start light, work on learning the movements with proper form before adding on weight.

Your BF is a trainer right? Is he a good trainer? Then he can teach you how to do the movements and that might make you feel more comfortable.

newwed412 wrote: »

Do you tend to like more reps lower weight or more weight and less reps? I like more weight because I feel it makes me feel stronger.

i like them both; i started with stronglifts and spent another year doing 3x5 after that, then wendler 5/3/1 which i'm still on. so i guess heavy is what i do for my serious stuff.

the downside of 'heavy' for me is that i can feel like i'm pushing the upper edge of good form. that might not be the reality - i have a trainer who's pretty vigilant and i also haven't had any injuries that have seemed form-related for quite some time. but heavy work feels different, so i do a lot of sessions and sets where afterwards i have this half-guilty feeling that i just got away with something i maybe shouldn't have gotten away with.

so as a balance to that, i enjoy doing boring-but-big sets with 50 to 70% of the same weight, because it's nice when the weight is light enough that know there's nothing wrong with my form.