Yeah, I see where you're coming from. I have this planned out, however, I live in a small town and there are not many ladies at the gym that are into heavy lifting, well, I think i'm the only one. The only info I get is from the guys. I joined on here to get more info from the ladies and want to make sure what i'm doing seems ok for a women.
I've been lifting weights now for almost 6 years now, my goal is strength, and lean muscle. I'm really big into strength, as I would like to compete in the strong "man", women comps next year. Over the last 2 years, it seems like my strength isn't going up that much, i've taken creatine supplements and that seemed to work for awhile but that was it, no more results!
My diet could be better. This is what I have today!!
1tbls of flax oil....OMG just started this, hard to swallow!!
9am protein shake w/skim milk aprox 40grams of protein
11am 1 serving of fruit
1pm spaghetti - whole wheat noodles about 1 cup, 1/2 cup meat sauce, lean ground beef, mushrooms, green pepper, onion
4pm 1 serving of fruit
430 - 530 gym Leg day!
forgot my protein at home, usually take another shake with water
6pm 2 slices of ham & salad, spring mix w carrots, peppers, mushrooms and touch of dressing
Now, this is what I normally have on a daily basis, when I am working!! I work at a call center, so i'm always sitting, which doesn't help any!! I work anywhere from 10hrs to 12 hrs a day, so I tend to fit the gym into my schedule on my lunch!! As for cardio, the last few weeks, it's been declining from (used to be 4 times) down to, um maybe once a week
My work is as follows Sunday(chest & cardio), Monday (arms) Tuesday (legs), take Wed off, Thurs (shoulders) & Friday(back), Sat day off!! When I work day shift, every 2nd week, I will do cardio in the evening 3 times a week!
I'm currently at 150 lbs, lost 5lbs in the summer and another 5lbs in the last 2 months!! My short term goal is to reach 145 lbs, I'll still have my strength, and eventually be around 140lbs!! As for my bf, not a clue, in the 20's, need to get that done! My issue is that I got pretty good build on my upper body, but I have extra weight on my lower that is sooooo hard to get rid off! Big butt, as my boyfriend would say!! lol So I started going high reps on leg day, and that's slowly helping. I don't have any body measurements yet, find they never change when I start doing that...I started to take pics and rely on the scale!!
I tried the high protein a few weeks ago, and I got really sick. I backed of for about a week or so and slowly going back into the protein again..my issue is I took way too much at once, and my body rejected it, my plan is doing small doses throughout the day, i'll start uping that next week, I want to make sure i'm fine this week!
Any suggestions???