Tejas I'll have to check out that book. I am hearing that free weights are much better than the machines. Problem is, I think I am doing the free weights wrong becuase it's not that hard for me and the next day I am not sore.
Tryhardforlife WHAT A DIFFERENCE! You look GREAT! I feel like you men can lose weight much easier than us women. You all can just cut out one thing in your diet and lose; heck, you can think about losing weight and lose
But its a battle for everyone; and you have done great!! You look like a new person!
Mel and Stephanie Ok I am going to list the reasons why I talk myself out of weight lifting. I am probably going to sound like an annoying whining person but I really want to start weightlifting but I need to get past my mental blocks first.
1. I have a lot of muscle under my fat because I was athletic for 7 years and all throughout high school. I have it in my mind that if I could just diet and do cardio to remove the layer of fat on my muscle, then I wont have big muscles but nice toned ones.
2. I have a bubble butt! Yes I said it, a bubble butt. I have a small waist which makes it look even bubblier. Im not kidding I have people asking me all the time if I have had butt surgery lol So needless to say my butt is perky and I do NOT want it to get any bigger or "perkier". I would actually like it to maybe go down a bit? (not sag, but less fat?)
3. I really really dont like that buff look on women. That is just my opinion and I feel like I already look "thick". I know they say its hard for women to get bulky but I am terrified of looking bigger when the goal is to look smaller.
How do you know you got a good training workout in? How many days a week should you train? I have decided to start circuit training 2 days a week. Below is what I was thinking of doing, but again I could be WAY off and not even heading in the right direction with weight training..
10 minutes running
50 Leg lifts on both sides
crunches with medicine ball
tricep and bicep exercises with free weights
pushups
5 minutes running
repeat exercises above
5 minutes running
reapeat exercises above
5 minutes on the stairmaster
What do you think?
Sorry for the long post!!