Sally- thanks for the compliments, but I did notice a mistake in your post. I actually posess a built in MACROprocessor, not a microprocessor. TRUST ME.
I have been reading T-mag for the past year with amazing results once I put the nutrition articles (i.e. Look Good Nekid articles, T-Dawg Diet 1&2) and training articles into use. I have not been intimidated to try them, nor did I feel that such articles as regularly posted here on T-mag can be applied to the male species only (BTW, I’m female).
As far as the treatment of newbies on T-mag is concerned, I have no complaints. A while back I posted a rather silly question (or so it seemed to me) about my fluctuating lower body composition, and received helpful feedback from T-men and T-vixens. Although it was my first post, I was welcomed wholeheartedly to explore certain T-mag articles and directed to examine my diet closer. No intimidation; no “mock attack” on a newbie. I love this site as is, and don’t want a vixen forum. The info here can be applied to both sexes.
Patricia:
"t-girl: by being a woman, you are “feminine” - lifting, addition of LBM will not, or ever, take away femininity. But add to. "
T-girl:
Exactly and everyones’ opinion of how much LBM to have is different. You are entitled to thinking “Iron” (whatever) Princess needs more LBM. I think she looks great, not to say that she won’t look great with more. To each their own.
So are you saying that there is not any woman out there with tooo much muscle??? Isn’t there a limit where you want to stop gaining more mass? I think the need to defend women that didn’t want “so” much muscle, came from the fact that you seemed to be so “anti-having-less-body-mass” and “pro-having-as-much-muscle-as-possible”. Everyone has their limit.
Patricia again:
"And the pic is of “Iron Princess” not “Polar Princess”. And my advice to her would be the addition of some added LBM in the proper places would indeed heighten the feminine qualities of her physique. I ain’t even gonna touch that whole explanation of the squat/waistline/glute thing in your last post. What the hell was that? "
T-girl:
I should have mentioned (to give the author credit) that the quoted explanation you are referring to was taken verbatim from an article entitled “Want huge gains? Do squats.” by Ben Black .
I think you are going to argue with me no matter what I write, although I have stated over and over to be neutral on the subject and was just trying to prove that everyone is different.
Patricia:
“Phatman: my post ( and yes, I’m explaining it now), was in defense of women out there. All women. The assumption was being made that if a vixen’s only forum was created that ONLY women with such dumb questions like “will squats make my butt larger”, or say “muscles look bulky” will only post. And I believe would be far from the truth.”
T-girl: Exactly. We finally agree on something. Woo HOo!
We’ll just have to agree to disagree with everything else.
Strange… we both began this in defense of all women. But we were both defending opposite sides. You defending strong women and I defending week. I’m not sure that either of us oppose the other. We were both simply trying make the same point - every woman is different and all types of woman would be posting with different levels of experience and that there’s nothing wrong with any of them - strong or week or whatever makes a person different.
This thread is just funny. Out of control, but funny. What was the question again? A female board? Does this catfight thread give a good example of why we shouldn’t have one, or what?
I also want to agree with what was said about respecting the vets. I think Patricia knows that we’re all in her corner laughing this off.
T-girl. You talk as if gaining muscle is an inevitability of weight training.
Look around you at the gym, if youve ever visited on there.
Please make a headcount of how many Schwarzenegger types you see.
See, things like hormones, diet, and specific training protocol determine wether you gain muscle or not. Other things are your genetics.
Just because you lift a damn dumbell doesnt mean youll ever put on one lb of mass. You'd expect a serious t-mag reader to know THAT.
Patricia has been lifting for how long now? And what is that, she still doesn weigh more than 100-something lbs? Hmm, I wonder why that is.
Sheesh the ignorance. I seriously hope t-girl isnt Sally-in-the-Vally.
Sally, I really dont want you to stop visiting the forums. But, if youll allow a humble request, could you try and talk clearly and concisely? I miss your point and always get lost in the incomplete sentences, and your special jargon with words like : like, you know, Oooh-ooh, ahhhh, and so forth.
You're giving me A.D.D. (attention deficit disorder).
Please read Cassanova's posts, or Patricia's posts. They're clear, to the point, without unnecessary words. Most important of all they're easy to read, and dont require a prescription of Ritalin afterwards.
Thanx!!!