Do you even lift girl?

So yeah, just another noob girl trying to get fit and strong. You may have seen me around the transformation contest, but I'm serious now and planning on starting a proper training programme.

In the past I've done Insanity, fad diets, cardio-obsessing, pilates, tai chi, running, youtube-obsessing - basically anything you could think of, I've done it.

Anyway, one thing I haven't really got into and known what I was doing is weight lifting. Recently I've read so many articles and seen so many inspiring stories of lifters that I really want to start myself! So I found this programme on simply-shredded (or something) for female beginner weight lifters. It is 12 weeks long and incorporates HIIT and weight lifting 4 days a week for fat loss and muscle building, sounds great basically!

I am a complete beginner so this post won't have any 'stats' however I can squat quite well - I know this isn't very official, but I regularly squat with my 10 year old brother on my back for 3 sets of 12, he weighs about 30kg.

Anyways, this is probably getting too long now for the first post, but I should be taking my starting measurements and weight this weekend, with my first gym session this Sunday woohoo!

Stick around and watch me get strong!

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Lol bassetts you couldn't sound any more like a clueless virgin who's never stepped into a gym

I started bench press with 6kg dumbbells, everyone starts on baby weights (apart from angry cucumber the genetic freak who started with 25kg dumbbells :P ) !


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Not sure what point you're trying to make. Who cares if you can bench a certain amount if you don't even look like you lift.

lol

'please internet girl, show me pics of you in yoga pants and sports bra, I'd love to see them'
Pathetic.

Also brb strong and aesthetic
Brb strength carryover to every sport ever
Brb getting stronger makes you bigger

DYEL

I started with a barbell but I was so weak I couldn't put any weight on it XD

Good luck OP! I'm going back yo weights when I start earning so can afford the gym.

Yes I'd like to see pics but if I don't, it's not the end of the world and I'll carry on with my life, dear god man.

Yes, but my point was no one cares about your numbers. They care about what you look like, and you should too. How much you can bench or deadlift is largely useless in the real world, but looking good is extremely important. Lifting weights and increasing strength is merely a tool to make you look better.

And who cares about sports? We're not going to become professional sports players at our age, so we should stop kidding ourselves that lifting for sporting performance is in any way relevant.

You don't need the gym! You can buy your own stuff online? Its cheaper... That or buy some water bottles and you get a drink when you're dying as well

I mean other than the specialist machines and stuff you can get whole sets of dumbbells

At the risk of seriously derailing this thread... sorry op

Clearly being a high achiever is not important to you bassetts. For most people it is. Most people want to be the best they can be, lifting more = achieving goals = be happy. Lift more, be better at sports, win more, be happy. etc. You have no idea what standard if sport people here play.

Hell even being good looking isn't important. What is important is happiness and confidence. If lifting heavy stuff gives me both of those then it is doing far more than lifting will ever do for someone like you. (fyi I do not look like a troll either)

Your argument makes you sound autistic to be frank.

Besides, a heavy bench and deadlift etc will result in more muscle and hence better aesthetics. Losing fat is the easy bit. Lifting heavy is not.

Finally, if you do, as you claim, have mental health issues then to be brutally honest you are not qualified to tell us what we should think of ourselves or society.

And put them where exactly in my small one bedroom we flat that I share with my partner? :\

Plus its rented, I can't damage the floor by dropping weights everywhere!

Put them under the bed?

Aww that's cute.. You're so weak you'll drop them? Aww

Divan

Go heavy or go home

I use barbelles not dumbbells in the gym.

Fitness blog guys... don't even understand how this discussion started

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Divan? Lol

I don't even know what barbelles are lol.. Like the straight metal bar used in weightlifting?

Sorry, don't beat me up

Can I ask questions about building up on here?