Freestyle workout???

[Gladiola]

Spatts, I agree that most women complaining about "bulky muscle" are just a little overfat & true HEAVY LIFTING is exactly what could get them the body of their dreams. I still preach heavy lifting with clean eating & only moderate cardio as the best path to the body of your dreams. I'm still telling ladies who take my aerobics classes at the gyms I teach to stop the endless cardio & totally ditch the "Toning"/light weight crap with zero intensity & really pump iron. I appreciate you having confidence in my self-evaluation abilities.

Gladiola...have you tried the high rep idea you mentioned?

No, just came across it today. As I wrote in a post I made last week, I didn't want to do high reps b/c
1. I hate it. I'm bored to tears & miserable when I do more than 15 reps. I'd rather do cardio.
2. Super high reps irritates my joints. (like the BodyPump classes I still teach on occasion where you do 60-90 reps near non-stop in 5 minutes).
3. I didn't see the advantage of muscular endurance training. If I want to have muscles atrophy, I should probably not use them. If I want to burn cals, I can just do cardio. So why do the high rep stuff then?

 

[vinylgroover]

Tough one Gladiola.

Are your glutes more muscle than fat? If they are, i don't know what the problem is. A muscular 'big' ass is always better than a 'fat' big ass.

Genetics is difficult to work against, particularly if you are genetically blessed.

Same with those who have genetically large calves. Would the same high, rep high frequency theory work in reducing calf size. I would think not. So then why would overtraining the glutes reduce their size.

I think all you can do is concentrate on eliminating as much of the fat from your butt as possible and if your left with a bigger than normal butt which is composed essentially of muscle, then that's what it is. Either way, i'm sure it will still look good.

 

[spatts]

I think where Gladiola is being misunderstood is in the fact that she does not want a big muscular butt. While we may think she looks like a hottie-boomba-lottie with an arse from here to kingdom come, it won't put her in the clothes she wants to wear.

Sure, it's easier to accept it, and work around it, but that's not really what she wants.

 

[vinylgroover]

I think where Gladiola is being misunderstood is in the fact that she does not want a big muscular butt. While we may think she looks like a hottie-boomba-lottie with an arse from here to kingdom come, it won't put her in the clothes she wants to wear.

Sure, it's easier to accept it, and work around it, but that's not really what she wants.

That's what i'm saying. If genetics have given her a pre-disposition for a muscular butt, it is difficult to work against that, much like a person with genetically large calves will always have trouble reducing their size, irrespective of whether they overtrain them or not.

 

[spatts]

Oh, I agree with you...I'm at a loss as to what to suggest, save for starting a "Buy Gladiola a new wardrobe to accomodate her bangin' physique" fund.

 

[vinylgroover]

Oh, I agree with you...I'm at a loss as to what to suggest, save for starting a "Buy Gladiola a new wardrobe to accomodate her bangin' physique" fund.

Being EF's resident assman, i'm sure i'm more than qualified to inspect her ASSets

 

[spatts]

I thought the resident assman was ttlpkg.

 

[vinylgroover]

I thought the resident assman was ttlpkg.

Jesus.....where have you been. I taught ttlpkg everything he knows about the

 

[Candi Barr]

Gladiola - http://www.t-mag.com/articles/207spec2.html Maxim # 6 or The Body Image Workbook: An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks by Thomas Cash. Maybe throw away the Vogue magazines.

 

[JJFigure]

Haven't you pretty much laid off training, too? That's a tough one, Glad - not sure what you can do. I ran across a fitness woman who recommended 500-700 bodyweight lunges/day, but that would kill your joints. I don't think it's worth ruining your joints for, plus, BORING!

There's another style of training I ran across for atrophy - I can't remember the name of it though. Basically, you train the bodypart you want to atrophy every day. For example, day one you would do sprints, day 2 lunges, day 3 lower body plyos, etc. I'll see if I can remember the name of it.