that is probably about the best compliment ever!! i think you look great, too!
[quote]alexus wrote:
that is probably about the best compliment ever!! i think you look great, too![/quote]
It would be better if I didn’t like her. I think a lot of it is age and women developing the flappy arm thing which is much slower to develop when you have kick ass triceps right?
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]alexus wrote:
that is probably about the best compliment ever!! i think you look great, too![/quote]
It would be better if I didn’t like her. I think a lot of it is age and women developing the flappy arm thing which is much slower to develop when you have kick ass triceps right?[/quote]
It’s funny and true. I have women at work ask me how I get my arms, even though I’m far from lean. They might be a size 6, but my arms move a lot less.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]alexus wrote:
that is probably about the best compliment ever!! i think you look great, too![/quote]
It would be better if I didn’t like her. I think a lot of it is age and women developing the flappy arm thing which is much slower to develop when you have kick ass triceps right?[/quote]
It’s funny and true. I have women at work ask me how I get my arms, even though I’m far from lean. They might be a size 6, but my arms move a lot less.[/quote]
There seem to be an awful lot of older women who are most self conscious about wearing short sleeves because of the flap. You’re right it isn’t about being lean it’s about having something solid to fill up the skin. I imagine it will only last for so long though because skin gets less and less elastic as we age and there just aren’t enough triceps to fill it up.
On the plus side, my skin feels better, tighter and more elastic since Ive started lifting. It may just be my imagination but I don’t care; most of my life is just my imagination so it’s all good 
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]alexus wrote:
that is probably about the best compliment ever!! i think you look great, too![/quote]
It would be better if I didn’t like her. I think a lot of it is age and women developing the flappy arm thing which is much slower to develop when you have kick ass triceps right?[/quote]
It’s funny and true. I have women at work ask me how I get my arms, even though I’m far from lean. They might be a size 6, but my arms move a lot less.[/quote]
There seem to be an awful lot of older women who are most self conscious about wearing short sleeves because of the flap. You’re right it isn’t about being lean it’s about having something solid to fill up the skin. I imagine it will only last for so long though because skin gets less and less elastic as we age and there just aren’t enough triceps to fill it up.
On the plus side, my skin feels better, tighter and more elastic since Ive started lifting. It may just be my imagination but I don’t care; most of my life is just my imagination so it’s all good :)[/quote]
This is all too true!
I’m amazed at the women my age (i’m talking +/- 30yrs old) who complain about arm flab! Its quite disheartening really.
@ Fleizing
Celebrities have incredibly regimented diets. They probably don’t eat more than 1000 calories a day of mostly lean protein (eggs, chicken, fish) and salad. You can definitely do that and stay quite little.
Vanity aside, I can testify to the fact that building muscle as one ages is so very, VERY important. It took me a knee injury to truly value my upper body strength - and this is coming from someone who has often complained about looking too muscular.
Now after being unable to use my leg entirely for months, I’m not only incredibly happy with my upper body strength, but I love and cherish my gunz!
Just look at this picture from 2 weeks ago - I was on vacation, I was unable to use my leg, and there I was hoisting myself out of the water using my upper body alone! Can you imagine what type of shitty vacation I would have had, had I not been able to maximize my upper body strength? Would’ve been fucking lame.
Worse, can you imagine if, god forbid, you sustain an injury and your not strong enough to compensate for that injury by using your other muscles to work around it? Who’s going to open your windows? Help you in and out of the bathtub or onto the toilet? How will you balance yourself on a busy subway train? Here’s to hoping you find yourself a nice companion to take care of you, if you’re not going to be able to take care of yourself…
nomnomnomnomnomn
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
nomnomnomnomnomn[/quote]
No, nomnomnom to you and your quads!! You’re looking fantastic MiMsy!
Also, its funny, but your PT has you doing a lot of the same leg stuff as I am (balancing while squatting, walking backwards on the treadmill) and the box squatting you’re doing is brilliant! Just started box squatting myself
But I agree, get that MRI so you can see what you’re really dealing with, mkay? (should prob just say all of this in your log, lol!)
Also @ Nadia, lovely pic!
well, thank YOU!!!
you lurker you 
and YAY for box squatting!! chest bump
the last 5 minutes of my life have been staring at Maschys booty.
now im going to stalk MiM in her log.
Maschy, you have the sort of bottom that makes strong men weep and women like me green with envy.
[quote]Dasher wrote:
the last 5 minutes of my life have been staring at Maschys booty.[/quote]
i reset the timer on my screen saver so i could stare longer.
/creepy.
Masch, I consider myself someone with a large behind. However I now want mine to be as big and awesome as yours. And those hamstrings, especially considering your leg injury? Amazing. Must stalk your log more.
Aw, thanks ladies blushing
That means a lot to me - i’ve been feeling a bit “meh” about myself with the leg/butt atrophy, so the compliments are much welcome
I put up the pic to illustrate my point, but to also show off a little. Most of you who have visited my logs in the past know of my own personal struggles with muscularity. But i’m so happy to have found PW and be around other women who prize muscularity and strength. And for once I can honestly say that I’m not only happy with the way I look, but love that I can master feats that most people, men and women, cannot. And it only took me two years to get here! lol!
Now little Mascherano can fly away like a tiny, muscular bird, safe in the knowledge that should I be buried under a heaping rubble in the imminent apocalypse, that I will live to see another day. Fly Maschy, fly! flap flap, flap flap
i love scrunchy butt bikinis!
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Aw, thanks ladies blushing
That means a lot to me - i’ve been feeling a bit “meh” about myself with the leg/butt atrophy, so the compliments are much welcome
I put up the pic to illustrate my point, but to also show off a little. Most of you who have visited my logs in the past know of my own personal struggles with muscularity. But i’m so happy to have found PW and be around other women who prize muscularity and strength. And for once I can honestly say that I’m not only happy with the way I look, but love that I can master feats that most people, men and women, cannot. And it only took me two years to get here! lol!
Now little Mascherano can fly away like a tiny, muscular bird, safe in the knowledge that should I be buried under a heaping rubble in the imminent apocalypse, that I will live to see another day. Fly Maschy, fly! flap flap, flap flap[/quote]
haha that’s great Masch! =)
I’m right there with you.
I wish all women will get the chance to have the revelation that not only will they never look like x person, because they are not x person, but that their own bodies exist for their own sport and recreation and pleasure and good health and if they use them as such, not only will they be happier for it but they will be more attractive, however they probably won’t care about the last part all that much because that just doesn’t matter all that much.
There is no compliment on my appearance that a person can give me that will ever have the same effect on me as the feeling of accomplishment from reaching a challenging goal. And if it’s a physical goal I feel honoured to have to this body and privileged to have discovered it’s abilities which is such a different relationship with my body than I’ve had before. When I was a kid I felt that way, as a gymnast and track and field athlete before puberty.
I’ve done a couple of meets recently and it’s hard for me to imagine the person I was a couple of years ago wearing a spandex singlet and doing snatches and clean and jerks on a platform in front of judges and a gymnasium full of people! How I looked didn’t even cross my mind. (I did look good tho, but everyone looks good with Eleiko plates )
I don’t think lifting weights is for everyone but I think sport is. Everyone should have a sport. IMO doing exercises to get a better look and attract males is not a sport. Nothing wrong with it but I don’t think it feeds your soul and your esteem like sport does, and I think it might even sap it.
Damn, Masch.
[quote]debraD wrote:
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Aw, thanks ladies blushing
That means a lot to me - i’ve been feeling a bit “meh” about myself with the leg/butt atrophy, so the compliments are much welcome
I put up the pic to illustrate my point, but to also show off a little. Most of you who have visited my logs in the past know of my own personal struggles with muscularity. But i’m so happy to have found PW and be around other women who prize muscularity and strength. And for once I can honestly say that I’m not only happy with the way I look, but love that I can master feats that most people, men and women, cannot. And it only took me two years to get here! lol!
Now little Mascherano can fly away like a tiny, muscular bird, safe in the knowledge that should I be buried under a heaping rubble in the imminent apocalypse, that I will live to see another day. Fly Maschy, fly! flap flap, flap flap[/quote]
haha that’s great Masch! =)
I’m right there with you.
I wish all women will get the chance to have the revelation that not only will they never look like x person, because they are not x person, but that their own bodies exist for their own sport and recreation and pleasure and good health and if they use them as such, not only will they be happier for it but they will be more attractive, however they probably won’t care about the last part all that much because that just doesn’t matter all that much.
There is no compliment on my appearance that a person can give me that will ever have the same effect on me as the feeling of accomplishment from reaching a challenging goal. And if it’s a physical goal I feel honoured to have to this body and privileged to have discovered it’s abilities which is such a different relationship with my body than I’ve had before. When I was a kid I felt that way, as a gymnast and track and field athlete before puberty.
I’ve done a couple of meets recently and it’s hard for me to imagine the person I was a couple of years ago wearing a spandex singlet and doing snatches and clean and jerks on a platform in front of judges and a gymnasium full of people! How I looked didn’t even cross my mind. (I did look good tho, but everyone looks good with Eleiko plates )
I don’t think lifting weights is for everyone but I think sport is. Everyone should have a sport. IMO doing exercises to get a better look and attract males is not a sport. Nothing wrong with it but I don’t think it feeds your soul and your esteem like sport does, and I think it might even sap it.
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Deb, that’s a beautiful picture in your avatar. Where is it?
I didn’t realise that you’d been doing competitions. That’s great. Nothing really beats putting it out there in a singlet on a platform does it?
Thanks Ouroboro! It’s near Cortes Island in BC, between Vancouver Island and the mainland. It’s a beautiful place.
Yeah competing is an experience for sure! Nothing is quite the same after.
[quote]debraD wrote:
haha that’s great Masch! =)
I’m right there with you.
I wish all women will get the chance to have the revelation that not only will they never look like x person, because they are not x person, but that their own bodies exist for their own sport and recreation and pleasure and good health and if they use them as such, not only will they be happier for it but they will be more attractive, however they probably won’t care about the last part all that much because that just doesn’t matter all that much.
There is no compliment on my appearance that a person can give me that will ever have the same effect on me as the feeling of accomplishment from reaching a challenging goal. And if it’s a physical goal I feel honoured to have to this body and privileged to have discovered it’s abilities which is such a different relationship with my body than I’ve had before. When I was a kid I felt that way, as a gymnast and track and field athlete before puberty.
I’ve done a couple of meets recently and it’s hard for me to imagine the person I was a couple of years ago wearing a spandex singlet and doing snatches and clean and jerks on a platform in front of judges and a gymnasium full of people! How I looked didn’t even cross my mind. (I did look good tho, but everyone looks good with Eleiko plates )
I don’t think lifting weights is for everyone but I think sport is. Everyone should have a sport. IMO doing exercises to get a better look and attract males is not a sport. Nothing wrong with it but I don’t think it feeds your soul and your esteem like sport does, and I think it might even sap it.
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x 1000!!! I wish every teenage girl could really get to know this before any body issues start to develop. Ah well live and learn as they say.