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[femmuscles23]

hello everyone. i am a new member, and i am so happy to find this site. i am sick of trying to find common ground with individuals that live off of fast food, beer, and cardiovascular exercise. not many people understand my way of life (especially women) and i have been left with a feeling of lonesome until now. I have enjoyed reading most of the info for about 5 hours now and i love it. i feel right at home. i have been training for about 5 years now and i am 23 yrs old. i am 5'4 and about 140lbs. i don't know my bf %, but i have abs and i have huge lean legs (my upper body is less developed, but i'm working on it). i have competed in 2 fitness shows and 2 bodybuilding shows. i plan on doing a figure competition in sept., and i am sure i will be seeking some advice as i get closer to that date. i am just glad to be amongst my own kind, and i hope to swap great info. if anyone has any tips for a figure comp please plug them in. thanks.

femmuscles23

 

[Steak Helmet]

HELLO AND WELCOME

Could you post some pics????

We would love to help you with your physique.

You do not have to post your face.

 

[femmuscles23]

reply to steakhelmet

hello steakhelmet! all i have is a laptop(only a week old), but when i go to work this week, i think i can get someone to post some pics for me. thanks for your support, i hope i can get some great feed back on my physique. it is very hard to see where i stand when there are so few women in my area that i can compare myself to. i definitely will need some advice on how to get my upper body more developed. all of the muscles are there, but my legs are so much more developed that if you cut my body in half, it looks as though i am 2 different individuals. one half isn't better looking than the other, they are just way different from each other. so check back in a couple of days and i should be posing it out. thanks again!

femmuscles23

 

[Rocket]

Welcome

Welcome aboard! As a red blooded american male I find nothing sexier than a lean lady with muscle. Glad you found us. And as Steak H said we would love to see some pics.
Rocket

 

[femmuscles23]

hello rocket

it's great to get replys! i can't wait to get my pics up. i also like looking at them! if anyone has pics i can look at please lead the way! again, it's awesome being here.

 

[BigEasy]

Welcome aboard Femmuscles23! And that was a GREAT first post! I hope that we will be hearing more from you in the future.

BE


PS: WarLobo: "Wishes?" You meant obsession in your prior post, didn't you? LOL

 

[femmuscles23]

big easy, you will be hearing from me a lot. i can't seem to leave. addiction is a horrible thing! i train hard, but i relax hard too, and this computer just gives me another reason to sit on my ass. i am absolutely loving it. even though i have been training for some time i feel like i am in 1st grade with some of the info on these posts. but, i am like a sponge. c-ya

 

[new@gettinbig]

Hi and welcome!! You seem to have a great attitude and that is a great place to start! I did a figure show in April so drop me an email and I can help ya any way I can. As far as your upper body, it takes time, how are you training now?? You should be lifting fairly heavy, no light weight...high rep stuff, you will not build muscle doing that nor get cut like you want. It is also all about diet and I am sure you are aware of that as well. Give us a little more details as to how you are eating and training. Let me know if I can be of any help to you.......

 

[Hotfigure]

Wellcome from me to - you've given me some great advice all ready - I hope yoou do well with the figure competition when you do one, I compete in Figure and love it - although the NPC is only going to have 2 rounds I compete in NABBA competitions and we get 3 rounds (1=symmetry 2=comp poses 3=rountine).
Look forward to hearing from you more on the boards - I've only been here a week too.

 

[femmuscles23]

to new@gettinbigger

i use heavy weights for my upper body with low to moderate reps. i basically do 4 sets of 10-12 reps for majors and i do 3 sets of 10-12 for minors. i have made major improvements since i have started, but it's just my legs are so overwhelming compared to my upper body. for my lower body i do all low weights with very high reps. i don't squat or leg press because they respond too quickly. i've even thrown in an aerobics class called butt, gutt, and thigh just to try an combat my huge lower half. it really sucks to have to overtrain muscles just to try and control them. i just wish i had that problem with my upper body. i have been natural since i've started, but i'm not sure how long that is going to last. my ultimate goal is to be a fitness model. i don't think my diet is that bad, but i may be wrong. here's and example:

530am-40 min. cardio
630am-1/2 c. oat bran hot cereal, 1 mhp lite shake with glutamine, and a scoop of designer protein, coffee
930am-1 bag of romaine salad, 1 can of tuna and lowfat, sugarfree salad dressing, olives, tomatoes
1230-always the same as 930
weight train, maybe a little more cardio
430-1 bag of romaine salad, ground turkey breast, olives, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers. occassionally an apple
630-6-8 egg whites, and some sort of green vegetable
730-830 bed time

i eat the same thing basically all week
if you or anyone else can see anything wrong with what i am doing please let me know. i get very frustrated at times, but this lifestyle is too addicting to just walk away from it, especially with all the time served so far.

 

[contessa]

WELCOME!!
I am new myself and it's really great to get replies all ready. I would like to see your pic's if you have any. I am also 5'4" and 144 lbs , bf 28% .

My hardest problem getting started is focusing more on body fat and less on what the scale says. Being we are the same height and weight, it would be great to compare since you probably have a lot lower fat than me.

Good luck with your competition and keep us posted!!

 

[Hotfigure]

LOWER HALF WOES

I'm just wondering when you say you're lower half is way bigger - I guess you mean more muscle, how low is your bodyfat. Most women tend to hold fat around the butt/thigh area, while the upper body is quite lean. So may be when the bf comes down the lower half will not be that out of proportion?
How in hells name did the lower half get so developed? Were you a - sprinter? or something??????
I know my legs are big cause I use to ice speed skate and cycle, they stay lean in comparison to the upper body - I'm a bit strange compared to most women who have the opposite problem.

 

[femmuscles23]

hotfigure

i do not know exactly what my bf is, but it can't be more than 16%. my lower body isn't fat, i hold just a little bit of water, but you can see all of my leg and butt muscles. i even have calves (which would appear much bigger if my quad sweep wasn't so big. i have a very high, round butt, and my hams bow out. my upper body is just like my lower body, in that i have a bit of water, but i have never been able to get that hard look with my upper body no matter how hard i diet. my lower body just responds10x faster than my upper. if you saw me you wouldn't think i weighed that much, but these legs are heavy. the only way they get some what small, is if i over train (100 reps of 4 sets for extensions and curls, 80 reps for single lunges, and 40 reps of sissy squats twice a week) and i am too lazy to do this all year, so only when i get ready for a show will i train this hard to achieve a little more balance. so when i am not training for a show, i try like hell to work on my upper body. it's coming, but not fast enough, i am 23yrs and i am not getting any younger. i also avoid exercises that will make my bottom half bigger like squats, leg presses, or heavy poundage. i have no idea how i got these legs. i just remember them being big all the time. i used to hate them because they weren't really skinny. now i like my legs and hate my upper body. i did play a few sports in high school, but nothing specific for all 4 years. if you have any ideas for me after reading this please reply. thanks.

 

[wynnyelle]

wow you have the exact opposite problems than i do. my lower body is small AND soft (esp. the abs and BUTT) while my upper body is hard as a rock. Not big muscles but the muscles are defined. All i can do is list what exercises i do for my upper body. i do chins, dips, bench, shrugs, flies or crossovers, arm curls, forearm curls, military press, lateral raises. I don't necessarily do all these exercises currently, I change my routine up and take out the exercises that have plateaued out, and move others in. Changing up the routine every 6 weeks or so helps for me.

Right now my shrugs have stagnated, i know they would still be getting better if not for my hands always giving out long before I'm finished. damn. anyone know a good grip workout?

i put the question to one of the instructors at my gym today and she said, what do you want to do shrugs for? that makes those muscles back behind the neck get big, you don't want that. i said i do actually and i asked how i could improve the grip, she told me to squeeze a tennis ball.

would this be effective by the way? i never trained hands, i dunno.

 

[Hotfigure]

I'd be careful how many shrugs you do a part ffrom a thick neck you may end up with the trapz becoming very dominant when you do other exercises like rows etc. Remember you got to have balance, do you do upright rows? What was the reason why you do so many shrugs anyway? As for grip strength (hand strength) gripping a balll is one way, you're all ready doing forearm curls - both ways I presume. Also try Zottmon curls - you curl up like a normal curl then rotate the hands a little and do a reverse curl down (palm towards floor) this works the forearms quite well - very nasty little exercise. Some gyms have those machines where you roll up a bar which has weight attached - you roll it up then unroll it, I guess you could do that with something else - something heavy with a rod attached may be?

 

[wynnyelle]

why do i do shrugs? it's one of the few exercises where I'm actually making dramatic progress, or was. 100 pounds of anything is amazing for me to be able to do. my traps aren't visibly bigger yet, though, it makes me wonder just what is lifting that barbell. I feel it in my traps but where are they? I have broad shoulders and a very thin neck and I know that even slightly bigger traps would go a long way towards improving my physique.

I do not currently do upright rows. I do pullovers and dips, and regular rows. Also chins. The shrugs seem to be the only thing I'm doing that hits my traps directly so I'm keeping it in my routine for now. The way I'm going it exercises my grip too just from holding the bar.