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Update: Starting again with body weight exercises. Haven't lifted in a very long time. Take it slow, your joints/connective tissue aren't always as strong as your muscles.

Yeah 5x5 is the best way to go, but if you're not moving much already or particularly athletic, going a few months with some lighter stuff won't hurt. That said, do not be afraid of barbell training. There's nothing scary about it, and it's as much for beginners as it is for advanced lifters. The only thing I will tell you…

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But I'm a jerk.

Only girl on this page would be Lyssa and maybe lisaann

In this case invest is a perfect word for it. YES. Even if it's $20 seriously , yes buy the thing.

You're not helping. :drinker:

I wouldn't know, but I would say go with a cheap pair to start out. Using them for a while will get you used to what you like, then you can branch out. Also you're going to get a lot of **** on this site for using gloves. Just ignore them lol, though lifting without gloves has it's pros too.

Loosing fat is the only thing that "tightens" areas on your body. Otherwise you cannot exercise loose skin (it is not muscle), and so there is no exercise to tighten it. Also, for that matter, you cannot tighten muscle either (only grow it/make it stronger). If it's not just stubborn fat, then it's skin and you would need…

Book to Face Raises and Cross Sentence Finger Follows My suggestion is New Rules of Lifting for Women. :flowerforyou:

Yes, remain very, very still.... lol :flowerforyou: In all seriousness, there's no way to target a specific area of the body (regardless of what these other posters have said), and so the solution is to loose weight overall. Where you loose and how much you loose depends on your genetics. (i.e. my chest tends to get pretty…

What about those tank style shirts that are all cut up?

Start with the bar. You might feel like a *****, but you'll give your body time to adapt and learn the movements. Point in case: Myself. I didn't start with the bar, but I didn't go overboard either. Even still, I ended up stressing my joints to the point where I've been in physcial therapy and doctors offices since Jan…

*takes finger off the trigger...* Lol, good for you. Thigh gap is bascially a completely fabricated "concern".

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Well alright then. That was fruitful lol

HOLY SHI........ Wow.

All of this works exactly the same for men as for women. There is no such thing as a man workout or a woman workout, that's bull**** marketing. Diet = Lose/Maintain/Gain Weight (be it Fat or Muscle) Cardio = Most time efficient way to burn calories, Great for cardiovascular health and conditiong, Not *required* to burn fat…

Calipers are ok, but it's tough to do on your own and inconsistent. Measuring tape is a great way to meature proportions, though bf% calculations based on tape are inaccurate. Truely best bet is finding a local "BodPod" (location on website) and using that. It's very accurate, though it'll cost you around $50.

Always remember that the affects of training and dieting are cumulative. So when you eat, before or after exercise, doesn't make a difference. Just do what works for YOU, and you will be fine. Much more important are how many calories you're eating and what you're eating.

So 6 pack... muscle only really grows when there is a surplus of calories. Muscles show through best when you've eaten a deficit of calories and the fat has burned away. Step 1, then Step 2. Grow them, then show them. Do heavy ab work (by heavy I mean weight, not high reps...) using things like cable crunches and weighted…

Morning or night is your choice. Soreness will go away with time as you adapt to the new activity. Skip a day if you think it'll make you worse or prone to hurting yourself due to any limited range of motion. A better idea is to make sure you're easing into your exercise, so that you're not getting too sore right away.

Sure aerobics seems fine.

So the thing that's going to help you the most in the short-run, is loosing weight. A healthy mix of cardio with some simple lifting like ICF 5X5 is going to get you in the best place given your goals. Lastly, soon after a workout your muscles will be a bit swollen (read: not sore, but swollen with blood). This will make…

All of this works exactly the same for men as for women. There is no such thing as a man workout or a woman workout, that's bull**** marketing. Diet = Lose/Maintain/Gain Weight (be it Fat or Muscle) Cardio = Most time efficient way to burn calories, Great for cardiovascular health and conditiong, Not *required* to burn fat…

I don't know if yelling it to where everyone could hear it was a the best move, that part might make you a jerk. But then, I've practically held people by the ear to get them to pick up their ****, so I sympathize.

Ok so lets take this a step further. If you can make muscles tighter by working them out, wouldn't that lead to a lack of flexibility? So if I "toned" the back of my arms then I would have more trouble bending my arm over time wouldn't I? By that same token, consider a "loose" muscle. Say... my quads (the big muscle in the…

I don't know what happened in your case, but my answer was based on research and books, like, science and stuff... Exercising a muscle doesn't make it "tighter" or "toned", and muscles don't sag, just skin... so I'm sorry but you're out of luck. People do this all the time with exercise, they want to make things "tighter"…

This was a great book to get me moving in the right direction, and a lot of the basics in the book are solid. That said, size gains are going to be few and far between on his program. Even strength gains are going to be slow since there isn't any objective structure for increasing the weight, just intuition which is…

Keep at it, eat right, and come back in months or a year. This whole process is slow... much slower than any marketing will admit. All of this works exactly the same for men as for women. There is no such thing as a man workout or a woman workout, that's bull**** marketing. Diet = Lose/Maintain/Gain Weight (be it Fat or…