Cool Random Women's weight lifting facts

[Gladiola]

http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html
This site came up today when I searched, "Front Squat" for form tips. I wanted to know if it was a reputable source of info - so I read the site.

Some interesting facts:

Something of significance for the serious woman lifter is that women have a greater relative strength to their 1RM (one rep maximum). In other words, they can work at higher reps closer to their 1RM than men can. Where a man might be able to do, say, 4 reps at 80% of his 1RM, a woman might be able to do 6 at her 80%. What does this mean for you? It means that charts and formulae which enable to calculate your 1RM are usually written only for men, and will likely not be completely accurate for you. A better way to find out conclusively what your 1RM is is just to damn well do it. Get some spotters, load the weight on and heave that baby.

Check out the drawing at this link:
http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html

 

[makedah]

That's a great site!!!!

It was quite controversial when I and some other folks praised it on a fitness board I used to post at. A guy who was sick of the women there fretting about how "bulky" they were getting from compound exercises posted the link to this site. (These women who were growing muscle were advocating giving up weight-bearing exercise in favor of leg lifts.) And boy oh boy... Those women went on about how Krista looked too 'bulky.' I LOVE it when she says "Those who tell me that my legs are too big are barking up the wrong tree. I want my legs to be bigger, dammit!"

 

[Gladiola]

OMG - she's one of my new HEROS! He he - right there with Sharon Osborne & Natalie Angier.

Allright possums, it's tough love time. If you don't like being nagged by a complete stranger, quit reading now. If you are comfortable still complaining about your body and making excuses for your life, then step away from the computer, and go sit in your own filth somewhere. I'm waiting.

Now, I know that many of you need a kick in the ass from the Mistress because you are lazy and can't be bothered to do things unless someone yells at you to do it.

I'm going to start giving out this web site to people at the gym who whine to me about turning their fat into muscle & toning, but they don't want to "get big".

 

[makedah]

Krista is my hero too! Her site was the first place I learned about the virtues of going heavy (instead of a million reps at low weight) and squatting deeply. The way she has transformed her body backs up everything she says.

For those who haven't been to the site: Here's her page with her before pic and there's a link at the bottom to her 'after' pics. http://www.stumptuous.com/krust.html

Another particularly yummy quote, this one from "The Crap List":

"You can get too big from weight training." Sorry, I thought we were all over that idiocy by now, but the Globe and Mail's style section for July 28, 2001 tells me that to wear the new fashions I have to have a nice back. Okay, I can see that. But then they give me my workout tips for it: doing some kind of row with a 2 to 5 pound weight, working my way up to 12-15 reps. Don't use any more weight, the article cautions, otherwise you'll add unwanted bulk. FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, YOU CANNOT GET TOO BIG FROM LIFTING WEIGHTS! A NON-DRUG-USING MALE TRAINEE WOULD HAPPILY CRAWL ON HIS LIPS THROUGH A FIELD OF LEECHES TO ADD FIFTEEN CRUMMY LITTLE POUNDS OF MUSCLE A YEAR! DO YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE SOMEHOW SO SPECIAL THAT YOU WILL DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSIOLOGY AND SUDDENLY BECOME HUGE ONE DAY? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE GODDAMNED TESTOSTERONE, HONEY! WHAT'S THAT? YOU CAN'T? OH, PERHAPS THAT IS BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU BULK UP???? RAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH KRISTA SMASH!!