LF chat thread

[bullrider_IL]

I feel lucky though that I'm a girl and short. 5lbs makes a HUGE difference in size on me, so maybe I only have to put on like 2-5lbs of muscle, lose 5-8lbs of fat, and I'll be good. I don't think it'll take more than a few months to get there if I get serious about this.

SRS, post bikini pics and we will guide you. ;-)

[justanothagirl]

going to bulk? 4500 cals +GOMAD+20 piece chicken nuggets from McDonalds?

Nope! Trish Stratus isn't big at all, I bet I only have to put on around 3-5lbs of LBM. Then I also want to lose 5+lbs of fat... I hope I'll get faster results now with lifting. I think I should focus less on what I see on the scale and more on what I see in the mirror, because smaller/lighter doesn't always look better. And muscle has way more density than fat. I'm not at a bad weight right now, though I could lose 1-2 kgs still.

I hope I can fit into the clothes I bought online that are half size too small (I'm between sizes) after I reach my goal lol. Oops...

SRS, post bikini pics and we will guide you. ;-)

Lol, maybe I'll do that in 1-3 months. I feel too skinny-fat/insecure about my body right now. : (

[Serpentarius]

SRS, post bikini pics and we will guide you. ;-)

you couldnt even see anything, she takes her pictures with a toaster

[bullrider_IL]

going to bulk? 4500 cals +GOMAD+20 piece chicken nuggets from McDonalds?

Counting down the days breh!

[bullrider_IL]

Nope! Trish Stratus isn't big at all, I bet I only have to put on around 3-5lbs of LBM. Then I also want to lose 5+lbs of fat... I hope I'll get faster results now with lifting. I think I should focus less on what I see on the scale and more on what I see in the mirror, because smaller/lighter doesn't always look better. And muscle has way more density than fat. I'm not at a bad weight right now, though I could lose 1-2 kgs still.

I hope I can fit into the clothes I bought online that are half size too small (I'm between sizes) after I reach my goal lol. Oops...


Lol, maybe I'll do that in 1-3 months. I feel too skinny-fat/insecure about my body right now. : (

Middylep took pics, and she seems somewhat insecure (at times). I honestly think posting and getting constructive criticism is goign to help your self esteem. And give Serp fap material.

[justanothagirl]

you couldnt even see anything, she takes her pictures with a toaster

Haha, true that.

going to bulk? 4500 cals +GOMAD+20 piece chicken nuggets from McDonalds?

I ordered chicken nuggets from McDonald's once but it didn't taste good at all. I prefer a hamburger and I put on extra tomato slices and ketchup.

Middylep took pics, and she seems somewhat insecure (at times). I honestly think posting and getting constructive criticism is goign to help your self esteem. And give Serp fap material.

Lol, well right now all I have to do is lift and cut and get started, in 1-3 months when I make more progress and have to start worrying about the details I'll probably do it.

You guys have already gotten me out of my mindset of fear for of lifting too much or gaining LBM after seeing my first pics already, so I can work with that for now^.

[BradKemp]

Dat feel when you've had 3 days rest in the last 4 days. Gonna be nice and fresh for tomorrow's workout. I might go to bed tonight at like 9 so I can be waiting when the doors open at 5:30am.

Thoughts on this dips workout:

No weight*26 reps
90lbs on belt * 7
90lbs*4
45lbs*10

That's a lot more weight than I can do.

Try doing 10 sets of 10 with only 30 seconds in between sets, that's more my training style.

[moore93]

Fuking hate shoulder day so hard, was straining so hard I was biting the edge of the bench while doing lying rear delt rows. (no homo)

Post workout honey nut cheerios and chicken though.

[nlite2000]

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[justanothagirl]

Im not good with explaining this stuff but i know how it works haha
Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy will fill the muscle with more glycogen, localized growth due to water and nutrient retention. You cannot have one without the other, so myofibrillar hypertrophy still happens but on a much much smaller scale, they are not mutually exclusive.
Strength training in the low rep range produces more contractive force from increase in two types of proteins that make up the filaments.
Honestly its impossible to tell because some people just dont get big despite doing both types of training, especially on girls, girls just dont get big, they do not have enough testosterone and it takes years and years of strict diet and nutrition from bulking and cutting to get close to what a male can do in a very short time.

SOME ARGUE, that with lack of exercise, the gains from myofibrillar hypertrophy will stay around longer from the adaptations made.

low rep range, 3-6 definite myofibrillar hypertrophy, more strength, neurological adaptations, more neurotransmitter production to increase firing rate signal between brain and motor unit.
higher rep range 8-12 and higher, definite sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, less strength gains, less neurological adaptations, more size, this is what someone who bodybuilds wants.

Unless you are strength training, there is just no reason to be doing heavy ass squats with like 3-5 reps, you'd probably benefit more from something between both, like 6-8, but your own body will respond differently to each stimulus, and is hard to judge based on each person, that one is better than the other.

Thank you Serp! Doing lower reps won't help getting more solid/defined either then? For now I'm doing 10+ reps.

The nice thing about weight training, given the hypothetical situation that you wake up one morning and find a particular muscle group on the verge of being over-developed, you can elect to not hit it as much, or at all. And it won't grow any more.

And despite what you seem to believe, it's pretty unlikely that you'll wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and say "GROCE!!! I shouldn't have worked my core yesterday!".

People with a lot of fat might have some unexpectedly-developed muscles hiding underneath, but you'd have to put on a lot of fat for that situation to be possible.

Agreed, I'm going to let go of this fear and just go all-out on my training and hopefully it pays off.

When she hits the gym with me I get her in the 10-15 rep range. She's done a lot of body weight stuff in the past and is ex-military, which built a foundation. A lot of her most recent developing/maintaining is from running. She does HIIT, stairs, hills, and LISS up to half/full marathon distances.

Thank you, that helps a lot!

[moore93]

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Oh god that place. I would never survive that "no big dude grunting" mentality. Even though I don't do it that just puts me off.

[nlite2000]

Oh god that place. I would never survive that "no big dude grunting" mentality. Even though I don't do it that just puts me off.

Yeah it's lame. Cheap though. And, free tanning!

[nlite2000]

Also don't know how I'm gonna do deadlifts; haven't really checked the facilities that closely. Hopefully they have t-bar row machine.

[Serpentarius]

Thank you Serp! Doing lower reps won't help getting more solid/defined either then? For now I'm doing 10+ reps.

You can get muscle mass from lower reps, however....like i mentioned that everyone will respond differently to different stimulus. There is no reason for anyone, unless they are training for strength to be doing REALLY heavy low rep stuff though. I do it because my goal is to be as strong as possible, but for someone looking to sculpt and put on mass...they do not need to be doing heavy farmer walks or 1RM squats.

If one guy did low rep stuff, and one guy did higher rep stuff, and the guy doing higher rep stuff came out bigger, its not always the reason that he got bigger from the training, he may have different genetics which develop the muscle more for overall size. A lot of it comes down to how many fast and slow twitch muscle fibers one has in a specific spot and how it responds to a stimulus, that comes down to ethnicity/genes.

It depends on the exercise for rep range, but what i can tell you is that you can build a hell of a body just doing bench press, overhead press, squats, deadlifts, rows, weighted chin ups, and doing some isolation stuff for calves and abs possibly. Im not big but doing all those have gotten me where i am right now and have noticeably put on mass from when i was a skinnyfat newb. If you are consistently adding weight (progressive overload), the body HAS to get bigger unless you are only after neurological gains (1RMs, and learning how to activate more motor units; sherringtons law of irradiation).
With that said....the use of a lighter (than extremely heavy) weight with somewhat higher reps will allow you to recover faster and hit that same muscle again more frequently.

I would never put a girl on an extremely demanding strength training routine unless they were comfortable with putting on some fat at the moment and that was their goal.

The "hard" look you are after is a function of just more muscle mass, and lower bodyfat

[Serpentarius]

Also don't know how I'm gonna do deadlifts; haven't really checked the facilities that closely. Hopefully they have t-bar row machine.

Have the girls lay on the ground and put their hands together, squat down and pull them up under their hands. Get fatter girls as you get stronger.

[justanothagirl]

True I don't care about 1RM but I was thinking about reps of 4-8? Lifting weights never really made me much stronger, even if I did put on mass, so I think it might be good for me? Maybe I should do both (drop-sets or pyramids style etc.)? Are chin-ups necessary?

[moore93]

True I don't care about 1RM but I was thinking about reps of 4-8? Lifting weights never really made me much stronger, even if I did put on mass, so I think it might be good for me? Maybe I should do both (drop-sets or pyramids style etc.)? Are chin-ups necessary?

How about you stop paying attention to pro body builder details and just do high rep high volume and make sure you get doms.

[earthshieldlol]

bros. just did my first handstand. not just a silly girly headstand. chit's gettin serious. handstand pushups inc.

[middylep]

Evening crew checking in. My roads been flooded and I've been couped up in the house sense yesterday. No gym..no dance class... couldn't even navigate the flooded road til about an hour ago when it went down some. I can't go running in this either. Depressing.

[moore93]

What dafuq, there are people riding horses down my neighborhood sidewalks.

Evening crew checking in. My roads been flooded and I've been couped up in the house sense yesterday. No gym..no dance class... couldn't even navigate the flooded road til about an hour ago when it went down some. I can't go running in this either. Depressing.

Body weight exercises, no excuses.

[Serpentarius]

Evening crew checking in. My roads been flooded and I've been couped up in the house sense yesterday. No gym..no dance class... couldn't even navigate the flooded road til about an hour ago when it went down some. I can't go running in this either. Depressing.

hula hoop with a snake

[SkinCareAddict]

Depressing day at work . Couldn't get a family member to Skype with his dad (who is on hospice). Said he was too busy. *******. -_-

Middy, can you go swimming?

[earthshieldlol]

Middy, can you go swimming?

you bet she can, giggity

[Serpentarius]

I went to this organic shopping place again to get muffins. I went back to the ice cream section, the same dreyers/breyers/whatever that is 3.25 at target was 6.99 there, talentis were 5.49 a piece lol! How do people afford to shop at these places? Jesus.

[justanothagirl]

I went to this organic shopping place again to get muffins. I went back to the ice cream section, the same dreyers/breyers/whatever that is 3.25 at target was 6.99 there, talentis were 5.49 a piece lol! How do people afford to shop at these places? Jesus.

Lol yeah crazy.

[moore93]

Breyer's bro...

[Serpentarius]

Breyer's bro...

at least its not 3rd world country haagen daaz right? I havent had a pint of talenti in 4 days, so ive been getting that snickers ice cream breyers stuff, and the target brand mint ice cream sandwiches, i keep telling myself im not going to eat so much ice cream but it never happens. Im in for quite the surprise when it comes time to cut...lawd.

[moore93]

at least its not 3rd world country haagen daaz right? I havent had a pint of talenti in 4 days, so ive been getting that snickers ice cream breyers stuff, and the target brand mint ice cream sandwiches, i keep telling myself im not going to eat so much ice cream but it never happens. Im in for quite the surprise when it comes time to cut...lawd.

Breyer's is a major brand like Edy's. Häagen-Dazs is supposedly up there with B&J.

You're a very confused individual.

[bullrider_IL]

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You are a *******t. That is all

Thank you Serp! Doing lower reps won't help getting more solid/defined either then? For now I'm doing 10+ reps.


Agreed, I'm going to let go of this fear and just go all-out on my training and hopefully it pays off.


Thank you, that helps a lot!

I would go somewhere in the 4 set range 15-12-10-8. At least that's been effective for me!

True I don't care about 1RM but I was thinking about reps of 4-8? Lifting weights never really made me much stronger, even if I did put on mass, so I think it might be good for me? Maybe I should do both (drop-sets or pyramids style etc.)? Are chin-ups necessary?

Go high volume and then add some drop sets or pyramids at the end of your workout :-) And of course chins are neccessary BRO.

[justanothagirl]

Dat feel when you spend half an hour preparing food, but finish it in 2 minutes... Lol.

I would go somewhere in the 4 set range 15-12-10-8. At least that's been effective for me!



Go high volume and then add some drop sets or pyramids at the end of your workout :-) And of course chins are neccessary BRO.

Thanks for the advice! I appreciate it. I will start doing this.