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Hvy Weight vs Light Weights????

boscoe thats awesome....at the rate you are going with the squats you will easily be at 300# in a month...Biceps are weird, I have the same issue...they truely seem to plateau in terms of max weight used...I can curl 135# for reps maybe 155# for 3 on a good day going downhill with a tailwind...never seems to get any stronger...size will vary, but strength dosent...it is a very small muscle...80# curl is equal to 480 ft lbs. at the point where bicep and forearm meet...dont know my anatomy...radius-flexor???
 
I agree. My bi's are a little over 13'. I'm just now coming to terms with the fact that they will be losing size this spring when I cut. I hope to at least ad 1/2 inch in the next year. I think that's pretty realistic. As far as my legs...sky's the limit! I swear women are soo lucky when it comes to legs. My husband fights the constant battle to keep his leg size, but mine just grow and grow...I haven't hit a plateau yet with legs and every week I'm amazed...I'm sure the glory will fade someday soon.
 
To have definition, you must have muscle to define + low body fat. Can't have one w/o the other.

Think of all those guys (non-steroid using ones) you see pushing really heavy weight...how many of them (or their significant others) think they're "too bulky"? Women's bodies make approximately 1/10th the testosterone (the muscle-building hormone) that men do. Every little bit of muscle we women get, we have to work 10 times harder :mad: As long as you avoid steroids, you'll never have to worry about getting too big.

Of course there are always some genetic exceptions who can grow muscle like weeds, and if you happen to be one and see that muscle growing too fast, all you have to do is eat/train less to rein it in.

Usually the trouble with the average woman who thinks she's getting too bulky is that her diet isn't dialed in enough to lose bodyfat. A little new muscle + same old bodyfat = looking bulky. When gaining muscle however, the bodyfat loss may lag behind muscle gains.

Many women give up at this point, but they should just keep on training hard. Given the chance, the new muscle will help them to burn bodyfat, but most get afraid and drastically cut back their training and nutrition before that ever happens. They're still operating under the dieter's mentality rather than the athlete's mentality: eat like an athlete, train like an athlete, look like an athlete.
 
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Thank you so much! You guys have made my day. My trainor keeps telling me the same thing you guys are saying, but some of my friends trainers have a different way of thinking. I really don't have the knowledge to know which is right. I am trusting my trainor, after all that is why I hired her. I am just glad you guys comfirmed it for me.
Thanks again!
Mercy
 
The only women that I've seen in the gym that train high rep/light weight and look solid are the ones that are juicing for figure or fitness and don't want the size, just the hardness, fat redistribution and muscle fullness in a dieted down state.

If you're clean and not one of the genetic freaks, in order to get much in the way of benefits from lifting as a female, you almost have to train heavy, otherwise there is little change.

Having said that, there was a recent study that showed that higher rep (30 range) with lighter weight, a pretty much non-stop training routine did decrease bodyfat and increase strength, but most of the muscle fiber recruitment was Type I and there wasn't much muscle mass change. So, if done with adequate intensity I suppose it will have some positive effect, but I certainly wouldn't recommend that style of training if you want to maximize changes in body composition given X amount of time in the gym.

W6
 
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