Hello ,everyone:
I am a femalebodybuilding fan come from China,I found the bbs by google.
I registered here today and surf the bbs for 4 hours,getting much knowledge about bodybuilding .
In China mainland ,the bodybuilding has not been accepted by mainstream culture absolutely,especially female bodybuilding,(because the bodybuilding IS NOT a olympic sport)people look at femalebodybuilder strangely.
I bigan my training 3 months ago,I like the feeling of blood-pumping and soreness of muscle,below is my training schedule:
Day 1: Chest + Bicep
Day 2: Leg + Abdomen
Day 3: Rest
Day 4: Tricep + Shoulder
Day 5: Back + Crus
Day 6: Aeorbic
Day 7: Rest
I train each body part with 3-4 movement, each movement 4-5 sets( including 1 set for warm up )and 8-10 rep per set(warm up set use 15-20 rep), using about my 70%-80% maximum power.
I only use protein powder drinking as supplement and eat 6 times a day.Every week I plus 2-5% weight in training.
I exercise very hard,sometime I even can not move the bodypart that just trained before when a set ends,but I am so eager to gain mass muscle,so I can endure the pain and the exaustness.
I show you some photo of mine, I need your advice,thank you very much!
Well, from the look of those photographs....you are doing very well indeed!
From what little I know about Chinese cultural viewpoints, being a female bodybuilder Would seem very strange. Despite the fact women were supposed to be equal in your country, culturally it is still very much a "Man's World". Family pressure to conform must be very hard as well.
So, this makes you a "maverick", a "rebel" and suspect.
It was not long ago, in America, female bodybuilders were looked up as very strange "fish" too. For a woman or young girl to go into a gym and lift weights was unheard of. A woman was supposed to be soft and feminine. Playing some sports is fine. Losing weight and gaining health from performing cardio exercises only is fine. Anything else that would build strength and empowerment was not.
Empowerment is not just for the guys. It is not just their territory. It is YOUR body and health not theirs. You are building selfconfidence and a better self image by doing this. That "rush" from lifting and seeing the results from your efforts is the best natural "drug" to keep your spirits high.
Let those others who frown upon what you are doing....go "jump in a lake".
Your looking GREAT! I saw the other shot you posted in the 'sore muscles' thread in the training forum - your arms & shoulders look amazing.
You should be really pleased with your results after only 3 months of training! What you are doing is obviously working and you obviously enjoy it and that is what counts!
don't worry about the people looking at you, just growl back at them and scare them away!
Laurie:
Thank you for your reply and your understanding of our action to devote ourself to bodybuilding,I believe the female-bodybuilding will be acceptted by majority chinese in the future just like that of USA now .I think I should show how healthy and happy a female-bodybuilder can be to people surrounding me ,then they can accept the sport .
Another important factor is NOT USE STEROID, because I am a medical student ,I know the harm of steriod.I was asked using steriod yes or not many many times by people that can not believe a woman can achieve mass muscle by weight-lifting and health food.So I must show a CLEAN figure to public.
Fortunately ,my family understand my decision and support my action,it gives me more motives and confidence.
Thank you for your encouragement,
Let's work harder!!!
Emma-Leigh:
Thank you for your encouragement and praisement,I will train harder.
I notice you are Australian ,Bev Francis is Australian too,she is my favorite female-bodybuilder ,I admire her incredible muscular figure and spirite of hard training.
Let's make female bodybuilding the most popular sport in the future!
There are so many female "lifting myths" women have to learn are not true. So many misconceptions and falsehoods that can keep a beginner from willing to go beyond using 3, 5 or 10lb weights (dumbbells). Or scare women away from even trying to lift.
A "Magick pill" or "drug" is another myth. Eating healthy foods and keeping to a good routine seems too easy to some minds. Too hard to keep by others. There must be a special "something" (so they think) that has made you look like this.
Knowledge, attitude, determination, patience and perserverence are the "Magick Pills". So simple and yet so hard.
By your decision, you have started your own "Long Walk" in becoming an example to women who might consider lifting for health and strength. Not easy being a pioneer and blazing the first trail for others to follow. So many hazards and roadblocks can happen. But it sounds like you have the Will to do this and the heart to keep going.
That your family is so supportive of your decision is GREAT!
I end posting my photos by a 56K modem connected to internet very slowly,do you like these photos?please give me some directions to improve my figure,thank you very much!
Laurie:
You said:"Knowledge, attitude, determination, patience and perserverence are the "Magick Pills". So simple and yet so hard. "
I think it is the truth to achieve bodybuilding and many other thing such as study ,work and so on.
After doing bodybuilding ,I make some change :becoming more confident,body condition improving,studying more efficient(I am a medical college student)
You anlaysis the hardship to change the opinion of bodybuilding to other people ,I think I can accept the challage with the couragement given by all the friends including you.
wow, you look great and I'm so impressed that you are bodybuilding in China. where are you studying? I lived in Hubei for 2 years, volunteer English teacher. No gym, no weights, nothing! (It was a very small town) It's great that you are into bodybuilding. I can understand how hard it must be for you to stand out from the crowd. I know something about the pressures on young chinese women - to conform in every way, get married, be skinny, wear certain clothes, be 'soft, feminine, modest', pass all exams, strive for perfection in everything, etc. The pressures are very great. I used to feel for my students, very often they were quite miserable and depressed at the narrowness of their lives and longed to break free. But it's hard when you are in that society. But you must live in a big city where people are more open-minded now?
I'm living in Hong kong now and even though this is a 'modern' city, I still get strange looks at the gym when I lift weights. I'm the only woman in the free weights section and the men stare at me and i know they talk about me - in cantonese, which I can't understand. But what the hell. I love lifting and they're not going to stop me, plus I pay my gym dues, same as them!
Good on you - I'm so delighted to hear about a female chinese bodybuilder!
I find my right arm is a little stronger than the left one (maybe you all see from the picture of my front show )so I adjust my training plan ,I quit barbell curls and add dumbbell curls to train biceps seperately,do you agree to it ?
I need your advice!!!
Originally posted by chinamsmuscle Laurie:
Thank you for your reply and your understanding of our action to devote ourself to bodybuilding,I believe the female-bodybuilding will be acceptted by majority chinese in the future just like that of USA now .I think I should show how healthy and happy a female-bodybuilder can be to people surrounding me ,then they can accept the sport .
Another important factor is NOT USE STEROID, because I am a medical student ,I know the harm of steriod.I was asked using steriod yes or not many many times by people that can not believe a woman can achieve mass muscle by weight-lifting and health food.So I must show a CLEAN figure to public.
Fortunately ,my family understand my decision and support my action,it gives me more motives and confidence.
Thank you for your encouragement,
Let's work harder!!!
Your looking great...as for the Steroids...maybe you should buy this shirt...
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