Yeah my GF seems to not like lifting itself much, but more so the results. Hopefully she learns to fall in love with both the lifting AND the progress, though at 5’7" and 105 lbs, I think she sales her self short undereating as often as she does.
Also, thanks for stopping by![/quote]
At 5’7" and 105 lbs she’s very fine boned, lithe. That’s pretty much the beauty ideal for most women, Spidey! She may never want to add a lot of weight or visible muscle. IMO, muscle can look SO pretty on women built like that since it tends to make them just look a little more curvy. Seeing the scale go up can be a huge hurdle though. Been there. That’s ok. She may not want a more athletic look. She’ll still get some of the health benefits like preventing osteoporosis down the road, even lifting on occasion I’d think.
Nice to talk to you! [/quote]
Honestly I think she looks great as is. I just want her to get stronger. I feel a stronger woman is harder to kidnap lol.
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Those damn little women. Your woman must be very very fine structred. That is quite thin for her height. Get her strong. Keep her eating right it will help her health long term. Small women have much worse bone issues in aging
ALso solid workouts and work. Those are nasty hours i know that life
Those damn little women. Your woman must be very very fine structred. That is quite thin for her height. Get her strong. Keep her eating right it will help her health long term. Small women have much worse bone issues in aging
ALso solid workouts and work. Those are nasty hours i know that life
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Yes she’s extremely small jointed. Like size zero is too big for her and often times an XS shirt swallows her. Her whole family is like that, except most of them are really tall. I think lifting in general will just help her in life, because honestly being that small ends up making carrying her back pack to class a real chore, so I think a stronger her will be a better her.
Thanks man, whenever I get tired or I’m running on little sleep, I try to remember you’re probably somewhere doing a MD workout at 4am having only gotten 3 hours of sleep and balancing medical school on top of that, so that always helps in getting me motivated haha.
Those damn little women. Your woman must be very very fine structred. That is quite thin for her height. Get her strong. Keep her eating right it will help her health long term. Small women have much worse bone issues in aging
ALso solid workouts and work. Those are nasty hours i know that life
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Yes she’s extremely small jointed. Like size zero is too big for her and often times an XS shirt swallows her. Her whole family is like that, except most of them are really tall. I think lifting in general will just help her in life, because honestly being that small ends up making carrying her back pack to class a real chore, so I think a stronger her will be a better her.
Thanks man, whenever I get tired or I’m running on little sleep, I try to remember you’re probably somewhere doing a MD workout at 4am having only gotten 3 hours of sleep and balancing medical school on top of that, so that always helps in getting me motivated haha.
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Genetics are cool
Lol thanks man I dont do much its mostly i am too stubborn to not go. Not always the best reasoning.
Those damn little women. Your woman must be very very fine structred. That is quite thin for her height. Get her strong. Keep her eating right it will help her health long term. Small women have much worse bone issues in aging
ALso solid workouts and work. Those are nasty hours i know that life
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Yes she’s extremely small jointed. Like size zero is too big for her and often times an XS shirt swallows her. Her whole family is like that, except most of them are really tall. I think lifting in general will just help her in life, because honestly being that small ends up making carrying her back pack to class a real chore, so I think a stronger her will be a better her.
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I’ll bet clothes are hard. Really fine boned genetics like many Asian women. A general guideline for women is 5 feet is 100 lbs then add 5 pounds for every inch taller. Of course, that’s a really rough guideline. It sounds like her genetics put her outside the curve. My teenage daughter is really tiny and we worry that the flu or a good case of pneumonia could take her out. No reserves. Also, it’s easy to break a bone.
I do like being stronger so I can do the lifting that I need to do in my everyday life, but honestly the main motivator was seeing women in the Athleta catalog and Jamie Eason and realizing that my morning jogging habit wasn’t taking me there. Those chicks lift weights.
Incline Bench: Did reverse pyramid today on this, I love it. Need to exert more force though, press faster. 3 min rest
185x1 (paused)
175x6
155x10
135x12
Fat Grip Chins: Loving these right now. 2 min rest
BWx3x8
Bandx12
Wide Grip Bench: Man I have no endurance for these, first set was 13 and after that they dropped off drastically. 2 min rest
155x3x8-13
Pullovers, Incline Curls, and Close Grip pushups, 3 sets each for 15-30 reps.
Solid workout, felt really good honestly. Noticing on Bench, ideal foot positioning is basically push my feet out until I think they are ‘wide’, then keep going just a little more. lol Also, noticed that since going to hook grip, doing lots of reverse curls, and doing the fat grip chins, forearms while still small, have much better shape overall. Pretty cool.
Those damn little women. Your woman must be very very fine structred. That is quite thin for her height. Get her strong. Keep her eating right it will help her health long term. Small women have much worse bone issues in aging
ALso solid workouts and work. Those are nasty hours i know that life
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Yes she’s extremely small jointed. Like size zero is too big for her and often times an XS shirt swallows her. Her whole family is like that, except most of them are really tall. I think lifting in general will just help her in life, because honestly being that small ends up making carrying her back pack to class a real chore, so I think a stronger her will be a better her.
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I’ll bet clothes are hard. Really fine boned genetics like many Asian women. A general guideline for women is 5 feet is 100 lbs then add 5 pounds for every inch taller. Of course, that’s a really rough guideline. It sounds like her genetics put her outside the curve. My teenage daughter is really tiny and we worry that the flu or a good case of pneumonia could take her out. No reserves. Also, it’s easy to break a bone.
I do like being stronger so I can do the lifting that I need to do in my everyday life, but honestly the main motivator was seeing women in the Athleta catalog and Jamie Eason and realizing that my morning jogging habit wasn’t taking me there. Those chicks lift weights.
/ threadjack !!
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yeah honestly I can’t imagine her being heavier than 135, like her frame wouldn’t be able to hold it. Clothes are really hard for her to find, which I feel is one of the reasons she doesn’t care for the results of lifting as much. She feels that she’s added muscle, but no matter what when she puts on a shirt she still gets swallowed and looks ‘skinny’, not athletic. She does get sick easily though, being so small and fragile.
Like I said though, I just want her to be happy with how she looks, no matter what.
I struggled with 2 plates a side on bench press for the longest time, while all the other lifts climbed steadily. What turned things around for me was the switch to decline benching when I did my latest bulk. Chest grew like crazy, and overall pressing strength greatly improved. Actually when I hit 3 plates on the flat bench for the first time I had used nothing but decline and incline for 3-4 months prior, and mostly for higher reps (BBB). Also, get a spotter for any kind of bench pressing, always. I don’t care if it’s your mom, get SOMEBODY to give you a spot.
[quote]Quick Ben wrote:
I struggled with 2 plates a side on bench press for the longest time, while all the other lifts climbed steadily. What turned things around for me was the switch to decline benching when I did my latest bulk. Chest grew like crazy, and overall pressing strength greatly improved. Actually when I hit 3 plates on the flat bench for the first time I had used nothing but decline and incline for 3-4 months prior, and mostly for higher reps (BBB). Also, get a spotter for any kind of bench pressing, always. I don’t care if it’s your mom, get SOMEBODY to give you a spot.[/quote]
Hey man, how’s training going? Haven’t seen you post as much recently.
Yeah I really liked Decline, if nothing more just for the fact I could use a heavier weight on it, so that when I got to Flat Bench that weight didn’t feel as intimidating in my hands. I tried to set-up a decline at my home gym, but it doesn’t feel right without the foot-harness attachment. I’m hoping focusing on Incline and some Wide Grip variations (which seems to give a similar feel as decline sometimes) will get me results similar to yours).
Also why the need for the spotter, I’m in my rack, I set the pins where if I’m going to fail, I simply flatten my arch and I’m good. If you look through my log you’ll see I’ve had to do this once or twice lol
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
Oh dear god, you had to work during that crap?? God forbid people go a single day without milk and bread. Buncha crazies.[/quote]
Yeah seriously people bought 12 gallons of milk at a time and stuff. Like how do you even drink all that before it expires? haha
So today was my ‘Light’ Lower body day, so played around a bit with some stuff
Paused High Bar Squats: Tried to do a long pause, like a 5-sec count in my head which is roughly 3-sec actually paused. 2 mins rest
275x1 (beltless)
250x5x3 (beltless)
Snatch Grip Deficit DL’s: I wanted to do some pulling with a light weight, so chose this, as it seemed to be the least advantageous position I could think of, minus doing this straight legged as well. It was alright, wasn’t awesome but wasn’t bad. 90s rest
225x3x5
Snatch Grip High Pulls: From the hang. I was already doing snatch grip stuff so said why not. I actually liked these. 90s rest
135x5x5
Face Pulls, Leg Curls, and Calves, each for 4 sets of 12-25
Workout was good, don’t feel beat up in the least so that’s a good sign I did my ‘light’ day correctly I guess. Squats I videoed the 3rd set I think? Last set or so reps were a bit slower, because I tried very hard to make sure my legs were taking the brunt of the work and just fighting to maintain my ‘correct’ upper body positioning.
I liked the High Pulls. I like Oly Lifts and feel I benefit from explosive work because I seem to be farther on the ‘endurance’ side of the spectrum naturally. However Oly lifts seem to take a certain level of learning and skill that I don’t personally feel like messing with lol. So maybe doing these can get me the benefits of them, like power and some upper back mass, without all that silly technique. lol Not really sure how to progress on them or anything, I guess I’ll just kind of go with volume PR’s and stuff.
[quote]Quick Ben wrote:
I struggled with 2 plates a side on bench press for the longest time, while all the other lifts climbed steadily. What turned things around for me was the switch to decline benching when I did my latest bulk. Chest grew like crazy, and overall pressing strength greatly improved. Actually when I hit 3 plates on the flat bench for the first time I had used nothing but decline and incline for 3-4 months prior, and mostly for higher reps (BBB). Also, get a spotter for any kind of bench pressing, always. I don’t care if it’s your mom, get SOMEBODY to give you a spot.[/quote]
Hey man, how’s training going? Haven’t seen you post as much recently.
Yeah I really liked Decline, if nothing more just for the fact I could use a heavier weight on it, so that when I got to Flat Bench that weight didn’t feel as intimidating in my hands. I tried to set-up a decline at my home gym, but it doesn’t feel right without the foot-harness attachment. I’m hoping focusing on Incline and some Wide Grip variations (which seems to give a similar feel as decline sometimes) will get me results similar to yours).
Also why the need for the spotter, I’m in my rack, I set the pins where if I’m going to fail, I simply flatten my arch and I’m good. If you look through my log you’ll see I’ve had to do this once or twice lol [/quote]
Training is so-so right now, I have some nagging injuries that need tending to. Life has gotten to be incredibly busy lately, so no time to be posting as much as I used to.
I said the same thing as you when someone tried to get it through my thick skull that I, personally, HAD to have a spot on the bench. Having a competent spotter - preferably a training partner stronger than yourself - will give you the mental edge that you need. Setting the pins in the power rack doesn’t have the same effect, believe me, I tried.
You’re right, doing the decline will get you used to handling heavier weight.
In short:
Get in a real gym.
Eat more, gain some weight.
Get your pressing strength up. (it’s all in your head)
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
Oh dear god, you had to work during that crap?? God forbid people go a single day without milk and bread. Buncha crazies.[/quote]
Yeah seriously people bought 12 gallons of milk at a time and stuff. Like how do you even drink all that before it expires? haha[/quote]
… pretty easily?
But for real, I think about 9 gallons in a week is the most I ever drank.
Get your pressing strength up. (it’s all in your head)
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thanks dude, give me a few months though, I don’t know where I’ll end up, so not going to get a gym membership until I move. However, I am on a BBB-inspired plan and playing with higher reps again, so hopefully you’ll approve of that lol. Are you still CBLing?
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
Oh dear god, you had to work during that crap?? God forbid people go a single day without milk and bread. Buncha crazies.[/quote]
Yeah seriously people bought 12 gallons of milk at a time and stuff. Like how do you even drink all that before it expires? haha[/quote]
… pretty easily?
But for real, I think about 9 gallons in a week is the most I ever drank.[/quote]
Yeah I don’t think these are GOMAD followers. lol. Though some of the larger ladies that come through the store have arm measurements I envy.
Spoto Press: Did an over-wamup to 225 before work sets. 2 mins rest
185x3x6
CG Bench: Did 1.5 reps, these are death. 2 min rest
135x3x5-7
BB Rows: Really slow eccentric. 90s rest
135x4x10
Then DB OH extensions and Reverse Curls with pauses and slow eccentrics for 4 sets of 10-20.
Maaaannnnn my upper back is sore AF from the SG High Pulls yesterday. I think I’ll keep those in from now on. I kind of neglect traps because they grow easily, but I mine as well starting him them again as I think I’ve underrated them when considering how nice of a base they provide for Benching and Squatting. Anyways, good workout, nothing strenuous. The 1.5 reps are brutal, seriously just cut the amount of reps you can do by about 2/3rds. Easy way to get some volume while not being stupid and trying to AMRAP something heavy every other day lol.
So frikkin cold. Front Squats and Sumo are in the same video.
Front Squats: Maybe had another rep on the top set but as you can see these were getting ugly. 3 min rest
245x1
225x7
205x8
185x9
Sumo DL: RIP thumbs
415x8
Superset 2 sets of Leg Curls and Calf Raises for 20-30 reps
Then 2 ‘rounds’ of dropsets for laterals, along with a difficult set of 100 reps on Incline Rear Delt Files
All in all good workout. God Bless anyone who does reps higher than 5 on Front Squats, feels like a ‘can you not fold over’ test after that. Sumo is feeling better and better, though my warm-up singles I kept nearly blacking out, no idea why, maybe getting too tight? also the bar was soooo cold that I literally wore wrist wraps super tight in hopes that it would hurt enough to distract myself from the pain in my thumbs lol
Incline Bench: LOL at 6 reps with 175 earlier this week, then only 3 with 185 fml. The single with 195 was just a quick over-warmup. 2 mins rest
195x1
185x3
175x4
165x6
Fat Bar Chins: Loving these. 60s rest for the +25, 90 for the +10
+25x3x3
+10x2x5
Wide Grip Bench: Idk if this is ‘safe’ to do lower reps on, but honestly this takes my shoulders out of the lift if anything so I think I’m good. 2 min rest
185x3x5
DB Rows: Just a quick set of these for each side, idk why, I just like them.
100x20 LR
Then some DB Pullovers, some Incline Curls, and CG Pushups all for some sets of 10-15 reps. Today felt great, genuinely wondering why I ever drift from the basic Big Beyond Belief set-up and tenets.
Incline Bench I feel I could have pushed for an ugly 4 reps but decided against it. Kind of hard to grind on that lift, I think because I kind of stop a few inches off the chest so I get no real bounce or stretch reflex. Also liking using lower rest periods for the low rep stuff, kind of allows a bit of density I think, getting a lot of work done in small amount of time.
Also dieting with Trent aka Pwolves is a breeze so far. Down 10 lbs in 7-8 weeks and feel literally eating candy and pizza multiple times a week.
She may never want to add a lot of weight or visible muscle. IMO, muscle can look SO pretty on women built like that since it tends to make them just look a little more curvy. Seeing the scale go up can be a huge hurdle though. Been there. That’s ok. She may not want a more athletic look. She’ll still get some of the health benefits like preventing osteoporosis down the road, even lifting on occasion I’d think.