Simple reasons why women need weight training!!

[Vortexx]

I've seen Christa Bauch pictures and as a male bb I can only respect the very hard work she put in, from a bb perspective she looks very complete/proportioned and those quads are simply stunning. I think this is the looks a NATURAL -male- bb should shoot for.

I wouldn't date this chick tough. I WOULD date Inge de Bruijn , who is the gold medaillist olympic swimmer and featerus a very trained / toned body while preserving some lovely female qualities.

And no, unless you are like Christa and have a serious "obsession" (hers was the small boyish looks, well she is a big boy now) and train year round like a chemical assisted animal , there is not much change (worry ;-) of becoming like this when you pick up a weight...

Gees, if it would be that simple we guys could get away with 2 times a week doing triceps dumbell kickbacks for 30 reps

Especially females who naturaly have lower testosterone levels should focus on heavy compound movement to GET ANY RESULT AT ALL! Maybe 1 out of 30 females is a genetic freak and may start getting more muscular than intended, but than again you can always LOWER intensity and train LESS should this rare event happen. Me for example I rarely train arms, cause they would become too big (easy) in relation to the rest of my body and mess up my proportions. Delts however I have to bust my ass to keep them going ...

So send this girl into the gym 3 times a week for a full body workout doing the big lifts for low reps and on the OFF days some high-intensity-interval-training cardio...

 

[ATrollFromTheFatBoard]

Me? I can't do any big lifts ... yet.

And no, unless you are like Christa and have a serious "obsession" (hers was the small boyish looks, well she is a big boy now) and train year round like a chemical assisted animal , there is not much change (worry ;-) of becoming like this when you pick up a weight...

Oh, I KNOW that. At this point I'm just worrying about getting started. I'd never actually worry about looking like that.

But you gotta respect her for the work that she's done, tho.

 

[nautica]

Thanks for the post. I have been looking for a good article to show my sister in law, in order to convince that weight lifting needs to be the center of you diet routine.

Nuatica

 

[w84me]

I've cut & paste your write up and forwarded to some of my friends & family members ... maybe this will give them a little more inspiration to start lifting.

 

[Sassy69]

Without adding yet another stickie to the board, I wanted to add the link to this awesome article that also lays out some basic myths & some common sense. The original thread is called something like "Things Overweight women can learn from bodybuilders"

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=176844

 

[Lumberg]

thanks newbie i am giving this to a coworker of mine.

jc

 

[wend]

Hi y'all. This is my first post here.

I've lifted weights on and off since I was a kid. I started with my dad at the Y when I was 15. I'm now 36, and determined to reclaim my body after having two children and nursing for almost six years straight (I weaned my youngest almost two years ago). While I wish that I'd been more consistent with weight training, I'm thrilled to now be committed to it (and to have access to the equipment), and I'm beginning to see and feel the rewards. Pregnancy really stresses out the abs, which, once they're weak, give the back problems (esp. when carrying a large-for-her-age four year old who likes to get piggy-back rides!). And of course my pecs need some serious work to lift up these empty milk bags that are my breasts.

The cosmetic benefits of this work is like the icing on the cake for me. More important are the increase in strength, the benefits to bone density (I recently watched my mother care for her mother-in-law in the last year of her life as osteoporosis took her...not a nice way to go), and also the improvement of joint health. (My knees and hips are out of whack...I'm doing yoga as well as weight training in hopes of straightening them out.)

Seeing those ladies in their forties is inspirational.

I'm very glad to meet all of you and look forward to learning from and being inspired by your successes.

 

[rdcamma]

Hello,
I'm new to elitefitness.com. Thought I would tell everyone a little about me. I am a 39 year old mom of 5. I started training in 1999 with a personal trainer when I was IMO a fat bitch. I worked out 5 days a week and made great progress until I broke my leg at the gym doing plyometrics then one thing led to another and i stopped working out. I can now kick myself for not getting back into the routine because I am back where I started. I have started working out doing 5 sets of 10-15 reps of squats, flat bench, cable rows, military presses, and crunches on day 1 and deads, incline bench, pulldowns, cable upright rows, and leg lifts on day 2. I am starting off slow because I am also in nursing school fulltime. I will do this routine for 3 weeks then increase workout days to 4 days per week. I am also keeping track of what I eat for one week and so far it isn't very pretty. With 5 kids trying to find foods that everyone will eat isn't easy. Any and all advice would be appreciated.

Rdcamma