Women should NOT LIFT HEAVY!

One day...when I can afford a gym membership...I will let you know!

I would love to get started with lifting heavy.

Lifting heavy doesn't require weights. The back and shoulders in my profile picture were made over 3mos with heavy bodyweight strenght training (not to be confused with that 100 pushups garbage). ANY lifting you do, where you can only complete 5-8 reps before you fail, is considered heavy lifting.

bumping for later

That was sly!!! Got my hackles up too

So I'm a new rules kinda gal and I've been pumpin' since Early March... just finished stage one, so here goes!
STATS: 5'7", 28 yr old, 152 lbs, apx. 25% BF and 37.5% MM (according to my scale.)

SQUATS: 3X8 @145
DEADLIFTS: 3X8 @145
T-PUSH UPS: 3X10
SEATED ROW: 3X8 @100
STEP UP: LARGE BOX 3X8 @70
DUMBBELL SHOULDER PRESS: 3X8 @70
WIDE GRIP LAT PULLDOWN: 3X8 @100
LUNGES: 3X8 @90
SWISS BALL CRUNCH: 3X55
PRONE JACKKNIFE: 3X16

LOVE HEAVY LIFTING!!! I really really hate watching women lifting barbie dumbbells in the gym :noway:

If you stay out of the hypertrophy rep range (8-12reps/set) and stay in a power rep range (5 reps or less), you won't grow bigger. Realworld example: Olympic weight lifters (the ones that have to make a weight class)

While I was still doing Starting Strength (Practical Programming modification):

Squats: 185 for 3x5
Bench: 105 for 3x5
Deads: 200 for 1x5
OHP: 75 for 3x5
Chins: BW
Pulls: 6 lb assistance.

Stats at the time: 5'4" and went from 161 lbs to 148 lbs and a size 12 to a size 8.

But, now I'm doing NROL Fat Loss II so my reps are a lot higher, thus I can't lift as much.

I love lifting heavy!

5'4
135-137 lbs
Squat: 3x12 155
Dead Lift: 3x10 135
Bench: 3x5 at 95
Barbell Overhead/ilitary press: 3x12 45
Barbell Bent over row: 3x12 60

:sad: :sad: :sad: Why can't I afford a gym membership or more dumbbells?!

I'd post, but I'm technically not "lifting heavy" because I only have one set of dumbbells at home (two 10 pounders) and I'm too broke to buy more.
I'm left doing more reps with my tiny tiny weights. :grumble:

One day...when I can afford a gym membership...I will let you know!

I would love to get started with lifting heavy.

Lifting heavy doesn't require weights. The back and shoulders in my profile picture were made over 3mos with heavy bodyweight strenght training (not to be confused with that 100 pushups garbage). ANY lifting you do, where you can only complete 5-8 reps before you fail, is considered heavy lifting.

:flowerforyou:

Have been lifting but am random at what I do and have not followed a program. Just got NRFL and plan to figure out what all these things mean.

5'2", 108lbs (most days, never more than 110lbs)

Hitting Triples right now
Squat 150lbs 3x3
Deadlifts I think 145lbs 3x3 -I'll have to double check my workout log I don't use MFP for workout logging
Bench 90lbs 3x3

Hoping by the first week of July to be at, for my one rep maxes:

Squat: 185lbs
Deadlift: 175lbs
Bench: 105lbs

Hard to tell where I'll really be at. I've been training for several months now, but a consistent diet and training regimen is what I've been lacking and I hope improving these two things and getting more sleep will help me make some big gains.

I have a powerlifting meet July 7th, competiting in the 114lb weight division because I don't want to cut ANY weight since my long term goal is to put on enough mass to be competitive in a Figure show.

5'1"
116 lbs

--all for 2 sets of 15 reps
squat: 99lbs
deadlift: 99lbs
bench: 75lbs
curls (barbell): 45lbs (only 1 set of 2-3 reps)

(maybe more on weight, but I haven't attempted because the weights jump up to 44lbs per side 0_o' w/a 45lb bar as well)

I'd like to see vids of the 75lbs bench for 2 sets of 15.

come on ladies. show me your sTATs!

I really, really want to start to get fitter and stronger in terms of weight-lifting. At the moment I am unfit, tall and relatively skinny and forty-one years old - I weigh (I think last time I weighed myself at the gym few months ago) 125lbs or 57kgs and I am 5foot 9inches.

I am very unfit in terms of stamina - I do have a gym membership amazingly (what an extraordinary waste of cash that is). I need to schedule in going to the gym but I never think I have the time!

So perhaps having a competitive target might help me - if I aim to get to what you are doing maybe?

At the moment I don't think I have the stomach muscles to do a single sit up - or the arm muscles to do much more than 5 press ups???

So what I need to do is repetitions of three to five times of lifting and then just increase the weight slowly, I guess. I think I will start small - with the small girl weights!

come on ladies. show me your sTATs!

I really, really want to start to get fitter and stronger in terms of weight-lifting. At the moment I am unfit, tall and relatively skinny and forty-one years old - I weigh (I think last time I weighed myself at the gym few months ago) 125lbs or 57kgs and I am 5foot 9inches.

I am very unfit in terms of stamina - I do have a gym membership amazingly (what an extraordinary waste of cash that is). I need to schedule in going to the gym but I never think I have the time!

So perhaps having a competitive target might help me - if I aim to get to what you are doing maybe?

At the moment I don't think I have the stomach muscles to do a single sit up - or the arm muscles to do much more than 5 press ups???

So what I need to do is repetitions of three to five times of lifting and then just increase the weight slowly, I guess. I think I will start small - with the small girl weights!

Lots of beginning programs will suggest higher repititions. 4 sets of 12 reps or 3 sets of 15 reps. I used this program when I first started: http://www.simplyshredded.com/the-ultimate-female-training-guide.html

It's awesome and you'll be able to do it since you have a gym membership. I recommend getting a least one session with a personal trainer to familarize yourself with different machines and lifts.

Im 120. 5'2 1/2 im a freshman in highschool
My max:
Squat: 210
Deadlift: 230
Bench: 95