Recent content by wynnyelle

big legs make your waist look smaller, they're a good thing. Stiff legged deadlifts have given my hamstrings a slight gain in size--I would try those to emphazise the back of the legs.

i use the 'squeeze my butt and pray' method all the time in public--so much, in fact, that i think it's made my butt stronger. but if i do it too much i begin to get these nasty cramps.

i heard somewhere that you start to lose strength after about two weeks off. but that if you just start traiing like you did before, the muscle comes back much faster than it took for you to build it the first time.

nothing you can do, people hate to be corrected or given unasked-for advice. i see people training poorly at the gym all the time and i just keep quiet and go on with my own routine. if i had a nickel for every woman i saw there who limply curled 5-pound weights (or those 'body bar' things) for...

black people don't actually have thicker skin than white people, just more pigment. i always thought those bulgy veins looked like they were going to pop too! I have very veiny forearms and actually they are easier to bruise because there's nothing on top of them cushioning them.

i've found that my body puts on more size/strength with higher reps--10 to 20, or even 30 for the squat or calves. you have to find what works for you...but gains in muscle size and strength seem pretty closely correlated to me. 10 reps seems a good place to start, but make sure it's an all-out...

well yeah, there's more, you have to be on gear for it to really work, or it will work better if you are. basically it tells you to eat high-fat, high-calorie foods, many of which aren't any good for your cholesterol levels. It does tell you to try it for only two weeks, but this article is the...

well no...but I can sympathize with you :) I have this embarrassing problem that i hate to talk about, i fart too much. anywhere near other people or especially at the gym i feel so ashamed. i thought that when i cleaned up my diet (i used to eat like shit) and stopped eating beans it would go...

it is a number of things, not just size. i myself am a Skinny Minnie as far as body types go, although pretty cut on the upper body, and over the years i have seen veins pop up on my hands, arms and shoulders. (not crazy about how it looks but it seems to come with pumping iron for me). It has...

wasn't this 'mass eating' approach all the rage in the 80's? hmm, i wonder why it didn't last. maybe because most of the gain would be *fat*?

what's your workout? if it's weights then the 20 lbs are probably at least mostly muscle. if it's just cardio, and you cut down on your calories and STILL gained 20 lbs, while on an ECA (that's what the Berry Trim looks like to me) i would say something is wrong if the gains are fat. If you...

what i have heard about this from pretty much all sources is you should never go on any kind of weight loss plan when you're pregnant because when you're pregnant you need even more calories than you would normally. apart from easy walking i think she should wait till after she has the baby...

Could have been a case of mild food poisoning, made worse by the fact that hard cardio arrests digestion to some degree . Mild food poisoning gives you a spell of the runs and you feel ill for a few hours too maybe--it happens to almost everyone at some point. Most people who get this think it...

That is part of it of course, but eating more calories DOES raise your metabolism. It just doesn't usually raise it enough to keep even with burning it off, so you gain fat, unless of course you increase cardio or otherwise burn the extra calories off.

I've been thinking about buying Yohimbine HCL. But until I get real, hard testimony, on this board, from women who have seen good spot fat reduction from using it, topically or orally, I'm not going to spend a penny on it. I'm sure the stuff is great. I just need to see REAL success stories...