HALP! Heavy Lifting Made Me SUPAH Bulky!!!
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This thread has always been a HUGE inspiration to me and I have always wanted to be able to post here. I have started heavy lifting before, but this is the first time I've stuck with it long enough to see significant results. I know my results aren't nearly as dramatic as some, but I'm very happy so far! I am 5'1" and started counting calories, lifting, and walking on 1/1/21. I am following Stronglifts 5x5 and using a home gym that my husband and I built. My starting weight was 213.6 and my current weight is 187. I would like to get down to 130 and then I'll reevaluate, but I'd much rather be strong and healthy than skinny! Here are some progress photos so far:
@valspaeth - how are you doing? Your transformations are SO inspiring!1 -
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Same experience here. Congrats, you look amazing.
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Bumping this to inspire more weight lifting babes
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It would be helpful if you could post two pics that are the same angle. Would you please post a pic square facing the camera for the after pic, that is the exact same angle/pose as the before pic?0
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MoveandChew wrote: »It would be helpful if you could post two pics that are the same angle. Would you please post a pic square facing the camera for the after pic, that is the exact same angle/pose as the before pic?
Speaking for myself, there are no “before” pictures.
I was too embarrassed about my weight to let anyone take any.
I think you’ll find many people here dodged the camera “before”.6 -
MoveandChew wrote: »It would be helpful if you could post two pics that are the same angle. Would you please post a pic square facing the camera for the after pic, that is the exact same angle/pose as the before pic?
@MoveandChew, this thread is literally 136 pages of photos. They were taken by normal average people like yourself, and not all of them even knew they were planning to post before and after pictures that (in most cases) are at least months and possibly even years apart. They can't go back and retroactively pose in some old photo in a way that's most illustrative. I'm sure many wish they could! (I do, even though I don't have results as good as shown in this thread.)
I understand and appreciate where you're coming from, but there are quite a few photo pairs here that do seem to be posed as you'd like. Maybe enjoy those?
I hope you're making a plan, based on your comment, for exactly how you should pose in your before photo (or as "before" as today happens to be) so that your before and after photos will have the maximum benefit for future readers of the thread?
Best wishes for amazing progress on your path: The women here have (IMO) given us the clear signal that amazing things come from hard, patient work.14 -
MoveandChew wrote: »It would be helpful if you could post two pics that are the same angle. Would you please post a pic square facing the camera for the after pic, that is the exact same angle/pose as the before pic?
@MoveandChew, this thread is literally 136 pages of photos. They were taken by normal average people like yourself, and not all of them even knew they were planning to post before and after pictures that (in most cases) are at least months and possibly even years apart. They can't go back and retroactively pose in some old photo in a way that's most illustrative. I'm sure many wish they could! (I do, even though I don't have results as good as shown in this thread.)
I understand and appreciate where you're coming from, but there are quite a few photo pairs here that do seem to be posed as you'd like. Maybe enjoy those?
I hope you're making a plan, based on your comment, for exactly how you should pose in your before photo (or as "before" as today happens to be) so that your before and after photos will have the maximum benefit for future readers of the thread?
Best wishes for amazing progress on your path: The women here have (IMO) given us the clear signal that amazing things come from hard, patient work.
This is exactly why I like you Ann :-) 4 -
(Hope this works - phone won’t always post pics on MFP!) time to bump up this thread, and for those worried about suddenly looking huge when they lift 😀
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Lighting and posture v important: in normal light I look like an average short 49 year old. Only when I’m bracing and in the right light do I look like I have muscles. And I lift a lot. And hard (for me).13 -
claireychn074 wrote: »
(Hope this works - phone won’t always post pics on MFP!) time to bump up this thread, and for those worried about suddenly looking huge when they lift 😀
Total OT aside (though still admiring the beautiful muscles and slender frame!) I’m loving your hairdo.
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Ahhh thank you 😀 it’s a bit longer now with an undercut as the upkeep of bleached hair that short was surprisingly time intensive. I love short hair though - had long hair my whole life until about 5 years ago!springlering62 wrote: »claireychn074 wrote: »
(Hope this works - phone won’t always post pics on MFP!) time to bump up this thread, and for those worried about suddenly looking huge when they lift 😀
Total OT aside (though still admiring the beautiful muscles and slender frame!) I’m loving your hairdo.
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claireychn074 wrote: »
(snip gorgeous photo for length, see above)
Lighting and posture v important: in normal light I look like an average **** short 49 year old. Only when I’m bracing and in the right light do I look like I have muscles. And I lift a lot. And hard (for me).
You left out some words above where I put the asterisks. I think they were "beautiful" "fit" and (LOL because you know why) "toned". So excellent, you!
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😱 toned?
Fetching my bar of soap to wash your mouth out of these verboten words, Ann! 😂4 -
springlering62 wrote: »😱 toned?
Fetching my bar of soap to wash your mouth out of these verboten words, Ann! 😂
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claireychn074 wrote: »
(snip gorgeous photo for length, see above)
Lighting and posture v important: in normal light I look like an average **** short 49 year old. Only when I’m bracing and in the right light do I look like I have muscles. And I lift a lot. And hard (for me).
You left out some words above where I put the asterisks. I think they were "beautiful" "fit" and (LOL because you know why) "toned". So excellent, you!
And your kindness of spirit and awesomeness are exactly why I suggested we start a fan club! Thank you, that means a lot xxx
And “toned” LOL!
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Hi, I lift! I'd love some ladies to add me (or guys, not super fussed) who are focussed on weights. I re-joined the gym in January, and I'm losing (very!) slowly, it's the last 5-6kg so I'm still have plenty of body fat to get rid of. Would love to see some updates on my newsfeed from more girls that lift. I'm struggling with my grip at the moment, it keeps giving out at 60kg deadlifts, I get about five reps in and my fingers loosen up - any tips?3
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Hi, I lift! I'd love some ladies to add me (or guys, not super fussed) who are focussed on weights. I re-joined the gym in January, and I'm losing (very!) slowly, it's the last 5-6kg so I'm still have plenty of body fat to get rid of. Would love to see some updates on my newsfeed from more girls that lift. I'm struggling with my grip at the moment, it keeps giving out at 60kg deadlifts, I get about five reps in and my fingers loosen up - any tips?
Sent a request ^_^ I'm pretty much in the same boat. Just started going back in January after a 2yr hiatus. Only just last week I have begun to see a change in the scale. Though, before that my inches were going down, but the scale stayed exactly the same. Interesting how that all works lol. But it's a good lesson moving forward, inches mean more than the number on the scale 1 -
Have been lifting weights (off and on) now for almost 10 years and I love it.
As for bulky... Eating too much did way more for bulk than lifting ever has. Lol
Love that this thread is still going!7
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