Need Tips - Workout Advice for a Girl

[Big Poppa Smurf]

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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.

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Your goals aren't quite clear to me.

Being stronger won't necessarily make you burn more calories or look better naked. Getting stronger is a function of your central nervous system becoming more efficient. Getting stronger will not make you burn more calories unless you also gain muscle mass. That's why body builders can eat 5,000 calories a day and still have ridiculously low bodyfat. Someone who lifts purely for strength, like a powerlifter, does not burn many calories during their lifts or while resting. I find it weird that you list burning more calories as a goal in and of itself. Is maybe that another way of saying that you want to lower your body fat? Also when you that you want to get stronger so that you look better naked, do you actually mean that you want to look a little more muscular? Being stronger does not necessarily correlate with being more muscular or looking better naked. In fact, someone can greatly increase their strength while looking virtually identical on the outside.

So if you explain a little bit better about what your looking for, I can give you better advice about what to do.

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Dude you know what she meant, stop trying to sound smart.

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Blow me. Stop trying to sound like you aren't trying to sound smart.

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If you'd like me to blow you, you're going to have to give me a better indication of what you mean. "To blow" is a verb that can mean several things: would you like me to direct a stream of air onto you? spend you frivolously? Or would you like me to perform fellatio on you? If you explain a little bit better what you meant, maybe I can be of more help to you.

[Thremp]

BPS,

Ghey.

[durron597]

BPS,

Owned.

[Big Poppa Smurf]

Ugh that does sound pretty gay, I was just trying to make fun of slickpoppa. Note to self: become funny.

edit: to add some value and be less gay, make sure you do tons of squats FFK. Girls who learn to squat heavy and correctly have the hottest asses ever.

[Blarg]

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Ugh that does sound pretty gay, I was just trying to make fun of slickpoppa. Note to self: become funny.

edit: to add some value and be less gay, make sure you do tons of squats FFK. Girls who learn to squat heavy and correctly have the hottest asses ever.

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Agreed. A girl can have quite muscular legs and still look very curvy and feminine. I'm a fan of uneven development on women that way. Real strong or well-developed legs can still look plenty subtle as long as you're not flexing or getting a crazy low bodyweight, but shoulders with much bulk at all in them start looking really far from the norm on women and pretty jarring and masculine. Much smaller margin of error with the upper body than the lower.

[GooseHinson]

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make sure you do tons of squats FFK. Girls who learn to squat heavy and correctly have the hottest asses ever.

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Deadlifts too, works your hams/glutes and your back. A girl with a nice toned back gets bonus points.

[Thremp]

FFK,

Take photos.

[Fast Food Knight]

OK, so I really liked Sanfu'd's idea about resistance bands because they seem very versatile, space-friendly, and not too difficult to figure out.

I'm thinking of ordering these. They have very light, light, medium, heavy, and ultra heavy, and I was thinking of getting medium. There is no specific weight resistance in the description though, so I'm sort of shooting in the dark. What do you guys think?

I have a general idea of some things to do with these once I get them but if anyone has any suggestions (that have not already been mentioned), I would love to hear them.

Thremp, when you say "take pictures," I'm assuming you mean before and after pictures? This sounds really scary because if I fail then I'll just have a crappy photo of myself reminding me of how bad I suck. But I guess you're right and I'll be glad I did it.

I have a random question about breakfast: for years, and through previous weight loss periods (maintained, TYVM [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ), I have never eaten breakfast. Now I'm reading everywhere that you wake up your metabolism by eating breakfast and actually burn more calories throughout the morning. Is this true? It sounds like it could be, but it also sounds like it could also be one of those voodoo dieting claims that surfaces depending on the current weight loss fad.

Thanks for everyones advice so far. I haven't posted a lot but I am reading every reply and ruminating over every idea I've gotten.