Sun, Aug-07-05, 04:36
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,568
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Plan: General low carb
Stats: 370/348.5/298
BF:plenty of it
Progress: 30%
Location: Ohio
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I can't stress enough how important strength training is. Six years ago before I got pregnant with my second child, I went to the gym about 3 times a week. I would rotate exercises during each week. I would only do 12 a day. I started with legs first, then arms, then abdomen. I was a BIG girl anyway. I started at 150# on the leg press, and within three months, I was up to doing 360# on the leg press. I'm 5'9". In just that three months, I lost 4 pant sizes. I was building lean muscle in my legs more than anywhere else and it was showing fast!!!!!! Now take that on with a low-carb diet, and your shape really changes overnight. Now I am a large-boned girl and tall. Most women are too timid to try increasing their weights the way I did. As far as building muscle like a man, women just can't do it. We don't have enough testosterone, and women body builders that get real big like that have been found taking steroids.
If you like exercising muscles, Michael Thurmond's 6 week body makeover is an awesome way to do it. The purpose of the kit is to make your time for strength training shorter by working only the muscles that need worked over. You look through cards (in the privacy of your own home) and honestly pick the cards closest to your body type and then do the exercises that correspond to the cards. It comes with DVD that you can stop between each exercise. It is a dream come true for me. It is on one of those infomercials. Let me know if you need the phone number and I will try to get it for you.
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