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Female lifters - advice and what's your workout routine?
I'm 5ft 2" and weigh 130lbs, still trying to lose 10lbs. I've been doing a version of Wendler's 5/3/1 with supersets and some added HIIT for the past year but don't feel like I'm making any progress. It's becoming quite difficult to up my weight and have been stuck at squatting 1x my bw for a while. This is a typical…
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Asian family make me want to starve myself
I'm staying with my aunt and grandma in Hong Kong for the summer and have been continuing to workout and eat healthy whilst I'm here. But it's so hard to stay motivated when all they ever do is call me fat. At every opportunity. It doesn't matter when, where or who we're with, they will always refer to me as 'big fat girl'…
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Moving to 5/3/1? Assistance work?
So after 7 months of Stronglifts I'm starting to stall on all of my lifts now and just feel like I need a change from it now. I've read Wendler's book about the different types of programs within 5/3/1 that you could choose but I'm not sure what would be best. I train 3x a week now and would like to keep it that way but…
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weight lifting making me bulky vs genetics?
So before all of you jump on this thread and scream 'WEIGHT LIFTING DOESN'T MAKE YOU BULKY' , hear me out. I've been doing SL 5x5 for nearly 4 months and I've lost nearly 10 lbs so far and am seeing more definition in my arms and waist. But I feel like all the squats are just making my legs thicker and chunkier. I've been…
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Possible to lose 5% body fat in 3 months??
I just signed up at bodybuilding.com and filled out my profile and their goals form. I'm currently around 22-23% body fat using the military measuring method and picked 18% as my goal body fat and to lose another 10-15lbs. The site then calculates for you how long that should take and it said that I should get down to that…
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Not able to add weight to lifts?
So I've been doing Stronglifts since September and when I first started I managed to add weight pretty quickly. But with my Bench press, overhead press and barbell row weights I've been lifting the same weight since mid-October. What can I do to start increasing my weights again? Here are my current lifting weights: BP -…
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Confused newbie
I'm doing NROLFW at the moment and have just started stage 3. It's been great so far but now the workouts are getting too long and complicated for me. So after doing a bit of research for an alternative program I found strong lifts. After reading that really long PDF I'm still confused about a few things. Do I add weight…
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Lack of support from friends and family?
I'm almost at the end of stage 2 of NROLFW so I've been doing this for nearly 3 months. I'm just starting to tell my friends and family about this but the reactions I've had so far weren't exactly positive. They looked at me like it was really weird and kept questioning me about why I was doing it and what was wrong with…
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Finally entered the weight room!
So after finishing stage 1 of NROLFW I realised that I'd have to join the gym if I wanted to be able to do the program properly and lift heavier. But that meant entering that terrifying weight room with big scary men in it who I thought would stare at me and judge my every move. My gym's weight room is downstairs and I was…
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Should I start lifting heavy weights?
I'm just wondering what results people, especially other women, have got from doing low reps/heavy weights instead of high reps/lighter weights? I'm currently doing the 30DS and was going to move on to Ripped in 30 after but I've seen quite a few posts with women saying how much more effective heavy lifting is at toning…
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No scales?
I've got some scales at home but I'm at uni at the moment and so I don't have access to scales. I've been trying to use my measurements as a guideline but they don't really change much :/ Is there another way to keep track of my progress?
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Any Students trying to lose weight?
Hi, I'm in my first year at university and I've always been conscious of what I ate. I went out and drank and ate the occasional pizza but then came home 2 weeks ago and thought I'd weigh myself, only to discover that I'd gained 1 1/2 stone! I don't know how it happened but any help and support from other students would be…
