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stenochick0417
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Where is everyone else at as far as starting out? Most things, I've started at 10 pounds (8 even, depending on the exercise) and gone up from there. I don't want to be a weenie about it, but don't want to bite off more than I can chew and hurt myself, either. I make it challenging, but not so hard that my form gets sloppy. If my form starts getting sloppy, I'll switch out for a lighter weight. Just wondering where everyone else started at. 
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I think this is a good question!
I noticed she says to lift about 60% of the total amount you can lift right now. I think it eventually goes up to 85% or something with longer resting periods in between. (I'm not for sure on that).
So I usually lift about 50% of what I can lift for long periods of time.
For the arms- I pretty much stick to 8-10 lbs. (The arms are very hard for me)
For legs- I'm pressing a lot, about 250-300. (Easy for me)
When it comes to the curls and the leg extensions I think I'm sticking to about 50 lbs tops.0 -
Because of last week's injury (pulled AB muscle) and the fact that I was out of town and hadn't looked ahead to Week 3 exercises yet, I will be re-doing week 2. I see we will be doing walking lunges with a barbell and wondering what weight you ladies started with. Its been a really long time since I've done walking lunges and mostly remember doing them with dumbells. And I wanna say no more 10 lbs in each hand either....0
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Lunges, I also do with dumbbells -- 10 pounds in each hand is about all I can do right now. 0
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Most free weight exercises are with 10s. Some of the machines are 40 lbs. I only leg pressed 50lbs and squatted the bar and I am soooo sooooore. I feel like a giant wimp.
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Most free weight exercises are with 10s. Some of the machines are 40 lbs. I only leg pressed 50lbs and squatted the bar and I am soooo sooooore. I feel like a giant wimp.
Haha... You are silly. Don't feel like a wimp. You are doing good. This is all about building muscle and toning up anyway. I think we are all using muscles we haven't used in a long time. We are woman, I think most of us can do 10 lbs or so with the arm stuff... With most of the leg stuff I can do about 40-80 lbs tops, it's only the leg presses I can do a lot in. Also, those lunges are hard. I am sweating like a pig when I'm done with those lol :laugh:0 -
My first week I only squatted with the bar too! The second week, I increased all weights for legs. This week, we shall see since I'm doing week 2 over!Most free weight exercises are with 10s. Some of the machines are 40 lbs. I only leg pressed 50lbs and squatted the bar and I am soooo sooooore. I feel like a giant wimp.0
