Got any top tips for women lifting weights?

First, never, ever do any exercise for your triceps. It is just an incredible waste of time. Triceps will get all the work they can take just from doing other larger muscle group exercises.

I agree with this statement.

New Rules of Lifting For Women and Starting Strength are two books you should read...

That and get the DVD Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U9FDP2/ref=oh_o03_s00_i00_details. That will get your form of to a good start and save you lot of time and pain.

Lastly, stick to either free weights and avoid all machines except for the cable stations.

Why would you say never do exercises just for the triceps? Saying they'll get all the work they need from other lifts is like saying you shouldn't do abs because you use them every day. I do crazy tricep work because they are incredibly important in the bench using gear. When in doubt, do more triceps! For the average girl, okay maybe they aren't a big deal. But saying not to do them is
amateur!

*points at the search button* (or just look a few topics down, there's bound to be at least 2 similar threads as 5 or more similar threads get posted daily)

Anyways here's the short answers:

- You won't bulk (women don't produce enough testosterone)
- You're lifting too light, you should be lifting as much as you can up to 8 reps (barely getting 8 reps with good form)
- Concentrate on Olympic Lifts (bench press, military press, squats, deadlifts)
- Form, form, and form.
- New Rules of Lifting For Women and Starting Strength are two books you should read
- Websites, such as www.bodybuilding.com have routines for beginners with videos on how to complete each exercise

Thank you for your response, the bullet points were what I was hoping for and i will definitely take them into account, especially the lifting heavier.

HOWEVER, the whole *point at the search button* gets on my tits

There's always someone on a forum that seems to think that anyone who posts a topic *that may have been covered a zillion times in some form* doesn't know how to use this function

I may not be the sharpest tool in the box but I know how to look through archived posts, why the assumption I haven't already looked and not found a response I like?

I made a new topic because I wanted the most up to date responses. How many new people join the forum each week? Maybe they have something relevant to say to a new post on a certain subject?

I also know how to use Google, but since I've grown to like this forum and some of the members responses I would rather read a collective of MFP answers

But sorry to waste some forum space for my topic that might of helped a few others too

:grumble:

First, never, ever do any exercise for your triceps. It is just an incredible waste of time.

Absolutes are always wrong. There's nothing wrong with isolation work (despite what the Rippetoe nutswingers will tell you), but it should usually be secondary to compound work...

Wasting that energy on muscles that will get all the work they need during compound exercises, generally, is a waste of time. Sure we can make cases for special circumstances were certain isolation exercises can be beneficial as a support exercise. But that would be the exception rather than the rule and definitely would not include triceps.