Need Tips - Workout Advice for a Girl
 

Hello,

I've never posted in this forum before. I'm hoping some of you guys can give me advice. Size-wise, I'm small enough - let's say goal weight, and I'm pretty short as well, 5'3. I'm interested in becoming stronger, for two main reasons: to look better naked and to burn more calories. I also just want to be healthier and have more endurance in general. Here's the problem: I have a horrible, profound anxiety of going to gyms or otherwise working out around strangers.

I've decided I'd be interested in things I can do at home, by myself. I want to look into getting some small weights, and perhaps do other exercises using my own body weight in order to reach my goal. I'm interested in advice in what sorts of weights I should get, what sorts of exercises I should do. I would love to know, specifically, what to do in a given workout session. Any information you can provide would REALLY help. I know a lot of people might be tempted to tell me to "get over it and go to the gym," but for right now, or at least until I feel more comfortable with some sort of workout regimen, that is not going to happen.

I'll be happy to answer any questions or provide any further information. I basically just want to improve the composition of my body without becoming much bigger, if that makes sense. One fear is becoming bulky - I have a friend who is like this. Are there certain ways I can eat to avoid this? I am incredibly timid and insecure on this topic so please, be easy on me. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] And thanks in advance.

Re: Need Tips - Workout Advice for a Girl
 

Read the FAQ. Do starting strength.

You're friend isn't too muscular; she's fat.

Re: Need Tips - Workout Advice for a Girl
 

you get the same advice as a guy would get...shocking...

squat, deadlift, rows/pullups, presses, lunges etc...dont' always use light weights, lifting a soup can 30x is not helping you change your body comp...do the same programs we recommend to guys...use weights that are challenging...

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also, check out this site... www.musclewithattitude.com

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This might help a bit. Some of the girls I find someone gross and could stand to fatten up a good bit, but the vast majority look fine out of contest shape (mostly just fitness bunnies, the BB girls look like trash year round).

http://www.musclewithattitude.com/

Take these two articles for example:
http://www.musclewithattitude.com/re....do?id=1500416
http://www.musclewithattitude.com/re....do?id=1504047

If you throw in a couple slayer references, eliminate pictures of not so hot girls replacing them with pictures of actual hotties, eliminate all the feel good stuff, and a couple lame attempts at talking about competition, you could slap this up on T-nation with no one any wiser.

In fact to echo thirddan, almost all their articles are either trip report style or just stuff off T-nation "dumb downed".

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also, check out this site... www.musclewithattitude.com

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Ironyaments.

Re: Need Tips - Workout Advice for a Girl
 

"This might help a bit. Some of the girls I find someone gross and could stand to fatten up a good bit, but the vast majority look fine out of contest shape (mostly just fitness bunnies, the BB girls look like trash year round)."

i agree, a lot of the chicks are kind of nasty when they are in contest shape...i don't need to see the veins on your abs...but most of the out of contest pics are really hot...

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http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5...3fdressda2.jpg

Hot.

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Read the FAQ. Do starting strength.

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did you even read the OP?


Example A.
Target Audience
The exact intended target audience of the book Starting Strength is the coach of pubescent/teenage kids who want to get bigger and stronger, frequently for a sport.


Example B.
The Main Exercises
*****1. The Squat
*****2. The Bench Press
*****3. The Deadlift
*****4. The Power Clean
*****5. The Press
*****6. The Row



Starting Strength, not exactly a workout designed for a woman is it?

Re: Need Tips - Workout Advice for a Girl
 

chair, you are really off base here...those are the kinds of exercises that she needs to be doing...

a standard women in the gym routine looks like this...

5lb dumbbell - 3x50 tricep extensions
5lb dumbbell - 3x50 bicep curls etc...

most women in gyms make no progress and are fat...

WOMEN NEED THE SAME TYPES OF PROGRAMS AS MEN...compound movements with a weight that challenges them for the specified amount of reps/sets...